Lead Software Development Engineer - Front End

Amperity
Seattle, Washington
Full Time
Posted September 8, 2025
$190k - $260k
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Job Description

The role involves leading front-end development efforts to create intuitive, scalable, and high-performance user interfaces for a data-driven AI platform, collaborating across teams to enhance customer experiences and drive technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build intuitive and scalable user interfaces for customer-facing experiences
  • Influence front-end development practices, set technical direction, and ensure interface quality
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to shape end-to-end user journeys
  • Design next-generation UIs that simplify complex data and workflows
  • Develop shared UI components to accelerate development across teams
  • Create real-time interactive experiences for data visualization and customer insights
  • Improve front-end performance for responsiveness under heavy load and large datasets
  • Integrate front-end components with distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Lead projects that span multiple teams and set technical standards for front-end engineering

Requirements

  • 12 years of experience building and evolving complex software systems, with expertise in front-end development.
  • Experience building exceptional user experiences and advocating for the importance of front-end engineering in a data-heavy platform.
  • Experience leading technical plans that improve front-end practices, design consistency, and developer productivity across multiple teams.
  • Knowledge of modern front-end frameworks and tools such as React, ClojureScript, and TypeScript, with an eye toward performance, scalability, and accessibility.
  • Strong knowledge of the latest AI tools.
  • A willingness to teach and mentor other engineers to help them level up their front-end skills and improve engineering excellence.
  • Experience turning ambiguous customer or product problems into clear, applicable technical plans.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation salary range: 190,000-260,000 USD
Hybrid work schedule with three days in the office each week in Seattle, WA or New York, NY
Employee healthcare coverage
Transportation subsidies
Work environment perks including snacks, in-person and remote events and activities
Self-managed PTO
Stock options with equity grants
Inclusive and challenging work environment that promotes personal growth and potential

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