"Alerted.org

Job Description

A startup company with a mission to increase government transparency through an AI backed platform that delivers real-time, contextualized policy intelligence is looking for a Sr. Frontend Engineer to join their team. This role sits remote in Brooklyn, NY or the Greater Salt Lake City area in Utah (Salt Lake City preferred) - they will not be required to come in daily but should be prepared to do a once a week lunch in office or come in as needed to meet in person with the team. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, this person will play a crucial hands-on role in leading the design, development, and maintenance of the application while actively contributing to the codebase. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions and drive the technical direction of projects.

Their stack includes a Next.js frontend built with TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, and Prisma, integrating with a Python-based chat API. This person should be comfortable working across the frontend architecture, writing efficient queries when needed, and unafraid to touch backend code when it helps move the product forward. They will integrate and consume REST APIs and GraphQL endpoints to power dynamic front-end experiences and collaborate with a lean technical team to translate UI/UX designs into responsive, performant interfaces. They may regularly use AI tools such as MCP or other open-source platforms to enhance development workflows. Lastly, they will deploy and manage front-end applications on GCP, ensuring scalability and reliability.

This role owns all things frontend: component structure, state management, performance, and design implementation. Over time, you’ll help evolve the frontend into a polished, scalable system that balances speed, maintainability, and delight. We are looking for thoughtful engineers (without ego) who care about the craft, the user, and the mission.

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Skills and Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building apps in React (Nextjs front end and Tailwind layout tool) capable of building React apps without ai but skilled in using ai tools for work efficiency now

• Front-end languages: proficiency with HTML, CSS, Typescript, and Javascript.

• Proficiency with REST API and Graph QL as well as Python based chat API

• AI tool experience and regular use: ideally they have experience building an ai tool, otherwise at least working with MCP or other similar open-source ai tools for their own development

• Cloud services: experience building with and deploying apps to GCP or AWS (GCP preferred)

• Either startup experience or working in smaller companies primarily (Do not want someone who has only been at large enterprise companies)

• Excellent communication, problem solving mentality and a thoughtful engineer without ego • Deep Tailwind layout tool experience

• SQL database familiarity and familiarity with Postgres

• DevOps exposure or experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools

• Experience in legal, government tech, or government affairs

• Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance best practices

• Lead (tech lead) experience and willingness