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Standard Template Labs

Front-End Engineer

Posted 4 Days Ago
In-Office
New York, NY
Mid level
In-Office
New York, NY
Mid level
As a Front-End Engineer, you'll design and develop user-friendly interfaces using modern frameworks, improve performance, and collaborate with teams to integrate AI-driven tools.
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The Role

We are seeking a talented Front-End Engineer - AI-First to join our small but growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll own the user-facing product: deliver polished, high-performance interfaces, leverage AI-driven tools to accelerate development, and partner with product and design to turn complex enterprise workflows into intuitive front-end experiences.

What You’ll Do

  • Build responsive, accessible, and scalable UIs using modern front-end technologies (e.g. React, Next.js, TypeScript).

  • Develop and maintain a shared component library or design system, supporting consistency across the product.

  • Integrate with backend APIs / services (REST / SSE / GraphQL) to fetch and render data; ensure smooth communication between frontend and backend

  • Use AI-first tooling (e.g. AI-assisted code generation, automated refactoring, AI-assisted testing / linting / code review) to boost developer productivity and maintain high code quality. (Given our AI-savvy culture — this is core to the role.)

  • Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to translate UX/wireframes into production-ready, user-friendly features.

  • Optimize performance, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility (responsive layouts, fast load times, smooth interactions).

  • Write clean, maintainable, testable code; participate in code reviews; help define front-end architecture and best practices.

What We’re Looking For

Required / Core Skills

  • Several years of professional front-end engineering experience (or equivalent), with hands-on experience in modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (e.g. React, Next.js)

  • Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS (or CSS-in-JS / styling solutions), responsive design, and front-end fundamentals (DOM, browser behavior, layout, performance).

  • Experience integrating with APIs (REST / GraphQL) and working alongside backend teams.

  • Experience with realtime, streaming AI-first components.

  • Good understanding of UI/UX principles, and comfort collaborating with designers to implement wireframes/mockups.

  • High code quality standards — clean, maintainable, testable code; familiarity with version control (e.g. Git), testing, CI/CD workflows.

  • Desire to embrace AI-augmented engineering workflows — comfortable exploring / adopting AI tools to accelerate UI development, refactoring, testing, or component generation.

Nice-to-Have / Preferred

  • Experience building conversational or chat-based applications, including managing complex multi-turn conversation state and dynamic message flows, similar to ChatGPT-style interactions.

  • Experience building or contributing to design systems / component libraries

  • Experience with TypeScript (or willingness to adopt it)

  • Familiarity with performance optimization, accessibility (a11y), cross-browser support, and responsive design at scale

  • Experience working in a fast-moving startup / AI-driven product environment

  • Strong communication skills — able to articulate UI constraints, tradeoffs, and collaborate across cross-functional teams

Why You’ll Enjoy This Role
  • You’ll shape the entire front-end experience of a next-gen SaaS product — from UI design to deployment

  • You’ll be at the forefront of a modern “AI-first” engineering culture: using AI tools to 10× your productivity, ship faster, and craft better user experiences

  • You’ll get to work closely with Product and Design, influencing how complex features are surfaced and used by real customers

  • You’ll help build scalable, maintainable UI architecture that will grow with our product

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at is: $160,000—$230,000 USD.

Top Skills

CSS
Git
GraphQL
HTML
Next.Js
React
Rest
Typescript
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