Front End Engineer
- $125,000 - $175,000
- San Francisco, CA
Founding Front End Engineer, Equity, VC Backed Startup, Health Tech, Hybrid!
A bit about us:
We’re partnering with a mission-driven, well-funded healthtech startup that’s reimagining how individuals and families navigate complex care journeys. Backed by top-tier investors and led by seasoned founders with personal experience in the healthcare space, this company is building empathetic, consumer-grade technology for one of life’s most vulnerable and high-stakes experiences.
They’ve gained early traction, have a clear product roadmap, and are now hiring their first dedicated Front End Engineer to play a key role in shaping the product and user experience. This is a rare chance to join at the foundational stage and make meaningful impact—both in code and in people’s lives.
They’ve gained early traction, have a clear product roadmap, and are now hiring their first dedicated Front End Engineer to play a key role in shaping the product and user experience. This is a rare chance to join at the foundational stage and make meaningful impact—both in code and in people’s lives.
Why join us?
- Foundational Role – You’ll be the first dedicated Front End Engineer, owning the UI architecture and setting best practices that will scale as the team grows.
- High Impact – Your work will directly shape how patients and caregivers experience critical health moments—this isn’t just pixels, it’s purpose.
- Real Equity – Competitive equity package that reflects your role as an early technical hire, giving you a meaningful stake in the company’s success.
- Career Growth – As the company scales, so will your role. This is a clear path to front-end leadership, including mentorship and team-building opportunities.
- Collaborative Team – Work alongside experienced, mission-aligned founders and product leaders who value thoughtful design and engineering.
- Build Tech That Matters – Join a healthtech company solving real, deeply human problems with empathy and intention.
- In-Person Collaboration – Two days a week in the San Francisco office (Mission Bay) to connect with the team and move quickly on what matters.
Job Details
We are seeking an exceptional Frontend Engineer (Founding) to take ownership of our frontend architecture and drive the development of our patient and caregiver-facing web application. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in zero-to-one environments, is comfortable working independently, and has a strong product and user experience mindset.
● Own and evolve our React-based frontend architecture, ensuring a seamless, high-performance user experience.
● Build and optimize web applications, focusing on responsive design, performance, and accessibility.
● Collaborate with design and product teams to translate wireframes into polished, interactive user experiences.
● Ensure the frontend is highly performant and scalable, implementing best practices in code quality, testing, and documentation.
● Implement and refine a component-based design system, enabling consistent UI patterns and streamlined development.
● Develop and maintain front-end testing strategies, ensuring reliability and smooth user interactions.
● Drive technical decision-making on frontend frameworks, libraries, and tooling to support long-term growth.
● Partner closely with backend engineers to define APIs and ensure seamless integration between the frontend and backend.
● Lay the foundation for scalable frontend development, establishing best practices and setting up processes for future engineers.
● Act as a key voice in product discussions, advocating for UX improvements and frontend innovations that improve patient and caregiver experiences.
Professional Qualifications:
● Proven ability to build and scale web applications, optimizing for performance, usability, and maintainability.
● Strong command of modern frontend technologies, including React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
● Experience shipping production web applications, ensuring they are fast, responsive, and accessible (no mobile app development required).
● Instincts for UI/UX best practices, able to translate complex workflows into simple, intuitive interfaces.
● Comfortable navigating and improving existing codebases, refactoring for scalability and efficiency.
● Experience with state management solutions (Redux, Zustand, Recoil, or similar).
● Hands-on experience with frontend testing frameworks, ensuring smooth, reliable user interactions (Jest, Cypress, or similar).
● A bias for action—thrives in fast-moving, early-stage environments with high ownership and autonomy.
Personal Characteristics:
● Mission-Driven & Impact-Oriented – Passionate about improving patient and caregiver experiences through technology.
● Autonomous & Self-Starter – Thrives in early-stage environments with high ownership and low structure.
● Product-Minded & UX-Focused – Cares deeply about building intuitive, delightful user experiences.
● Detail-Oriented & Quality-Focused – Committed to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
● Collaborative & Communicative – Works well across engineering, product, and design teams.
● Adaptable & Growth-Minded – Open to learning and evolving as the company scales.
● Own and evolve our React-based frontend architecture, ensuring a seamless, high-performance user experience.
● Build and optimize web applications, focusing on responsive design, performance, and accessibility.
● Collaborate with design and product teams to translate wireframes into polished, interactive user experiences.
● Ensure the frontend is highly performant and scalable, implementing best practices in code quality, testing, and documentation.
● Implement and refine a component-based design system, enabling consistent UI patterns and streamlined development.
● Develop and maintain front-end testing strategies, ensuring reliability and smooth user interactions.
● Drive technical decision-making on frontend frameworks, libraries, and tooling to support long-term growth.
● Partner closely with backend engineers to define APIs and ensure seamless integration between the frontend and backend.
● Lay the foundation for scalable frontend development, establishing best practices and setting up processes for future engineers.
● Act as a key voice in product discussions, advocating for UX improvements and frontend innovations that improve patient and caregiver experiences.
Professional Qualifications:
● Proven ability to build and scale web applications, optimizing for performance, usability, and maintainability.
● Strong command of modern frontend technologies, including React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
● Experience shipping production web applications, ensuring they are fast, responsive, and accessible (no mobile app development required).
● Instincts for UI/UX best practices, able to translate complex workflows into simple, intuitive interfaces.
● Comfortable navigating and improving existing codebases, refactoring for scalability and efficiency.
● Experience with state management solutions (Redux, Zustand, Recoil, or similar).
● Hands-on experience with frontend testing frameworks, ensuring smooth, reliable user interactions (Jest, Cypress, or similar).
● A bias for action—thrives in fast-moving, early-stage environments with high ownership and autonomy.
Personal Characteristics:
● Mission-Driven & Impact-Oriented – Passionate about improving patient and caregiver experiences through technology.
● Autonomous & Self-Starter – Thrives in early-stage environments with high ownership and low structure.
● Product-Minded & UX-Focused – Cares deeply about building intuitive, delightful user experiences.
● Detail-Oriented & Quality-Focused – Committed to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
● Collaborative & Communicative – Works well across engineering, product, and design teams.
● Adaptable & Growth-Minded – Open to learning and evolving as the company scales.
Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.