Staff / Senior Staff Engineer, Frontend - ConfigHub
Pear VCAbout Us
It is time for the industry to move beyond Infrastructure as Code. At ConfigHub, we are building the next-generation configuration experience for cloud applications and infrastructure.
You’d have a chance to work with an experienced, innovative team delivering what we hope will be a product with industry-level impact. We are veteran product leaders who have delivered cloud-native platforms for 10-15 years.
Jesper Joergensen, former product lead at Heroku PaaS then Twilio platform
Brian Grant, original Kubernetes lead architect and creator of its declarative configuration model including KRM, kubectl apply, and kustomize; inaugural Kubernetes Steering Committee member, inaugural CNCF TOC member, coauthored the CNCF’s definition of “Cloud Native”
Alexis Richardson, CEO/founder of Weaveworks, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot/Cloud; CNCF TOC first chair, founder of “GitOps”
About the Role
UX in the infrastructure/DevOps area is notoriously bad. We believe that a new kind of user interface is critical to the experience we aim to deliver.
We are looking for a person who can build the foundation of a UI/frontend team and the foundation of the software.
You will:
decide our frontend tech stack and architecture
build our initial frontend
build and lead our frontend team
innovate in UX for cloud infrastructure and applications
incorporate AI to help users do more faster and better
The UI has a number of technical and UX challenges. It needs to be dynamic, customizable, and extensible. It needs to navigate and present complex data simply and ergonomically. You need to be able to make key technology and architectural decisions for the frontend, such as frameworks, libraries, and components, and to decide when those decisions need to be changed based on the evolution of the product.
About You
We need someone who thinks big, draws creative inputs from many sources, and is able to lead other people towards a vision.
As a tiny startup, it can be unclear what you should be working on at any given moment. The vision may be blurry, the current state of the product may be ambiguous and you may have to decide for yourself what is the best thing to work on next. We are looking for someone who enjoys such an environment. We need you to feel confident to start work on a task that nobody has defined for you and that you think is the best thing to focus on right now. We need you to think ahead and plan tasks for yourself and others that lead us to the next milestone. This will require you to communicate well in writing, helping the whole team understand both the what and the why of your plan to reach future milestones.
You have a vision for the systems you work on, but you know how to build incremental milestones and when to make trade-offs between completeness and utility to get to value fast.
You need to be able to make key technology and architectural decisions for the frontend, and to decide when those decisions need to be changed based on the evolution of the product.
Ideally, you’ve previously owned building frontend experiences from concept to launch, including substantial architecture design as well as hands-on implementation.
Requirements
10+ years of professional software engineering experience
5+ years of Web UI (frontend) development experience
Experience building a SaaS frontend
Experience leading technical projects
Javascript/Typescript, CSS, HTML
One major modern interactive web UI framework: React, Angular, Vue, Svelte
Nice-to-haves
Experience with:
2+ Javascript frameworks
Web UI extensions
Micro-frontends
Server-driven UI
GraphQL
Figma
UX design
startups
B2B SaaS
contributing to open-source projects
backend development
What We Offer
We are committed to ConfigHub becoming a wonderful place to work for people from a very wide range of backgrounds and locations. We would be very happy to discuss this in detail as we get to meet you - but here are a few quick initial points.
ConfigHub is not the place where you wave goodbye to your loved ones when you join, never to spend time with them again until we have either succeeded or failed. We are building this company while living a real life with our friends and family in our local communities.
In addition to cash and equity compensation, we offer medical, dental, and vision insurance, and voluntary life, hospital, critical illness, and accident insurance.
Our team is remote and we expect it to stay that way. You will enjoy the benefits of working from a location that best suits you and on a flexible time schedule. We do need significant work-hours overlap with the US west coast (Pacific Time), however. We believe it is important that you have experience with this working style so you know what you are getting yourself into and you have proven that it works for you. We plan to meet in person at least 4 times a year, and more often if necessary.
About the Application
Please take the application seriously. Due to the large number of applicants, if you do not complete the questions, including the cover letter, we will reject your application.