- Company Name
- MotherDuck
- Job Title
- Software Engineer - Frontend
- Job Description
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Job title: Software Engineer - Frontend
Role Summary: Frontend engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining high‑performance, accessible UIs for a cloud‑hosted data warehouse. Focus on user experience, component library, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams.
Expactations: Deliver intuitive, performant, and aesthetically polished interfaces; prototype new ideas rapidly, iterate based on user feedback; contribute to engineering culture, architecture, and technical roadmap; ensure code quality, testing, and documentation.
Key Responsibilities: • Design and implement feature‑rich, accessible UIs using React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS. • Own end‑to‑end user experience, collaborating with designers and product managers to solve real‑world data analysis problems. • Partner with backend engineers, PMs, and fellow frontend developers to integrate data services and visualizations. • Write clean, reusable, and well‑tested code; evolve component library and design system. • Prototype new concepts quickly, validate assumptions, and refine workflows. • Shape frontend architecture, standards, and tooling practices as the team scales.
Required Skills: • Proven frontend development experience with React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS. • Strong aesthetic and interaction design instincts. • Experience building developer tools, BI tools, notebooks, or data visualization products. • Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem (Vite, esbuild, etc.). • Ability to create reusable component libraries and manage intricate animations and interactions. • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making decisions with limited information, and working across the stack. • Passion for shipping high‑quality, architecturally sound systems, including AI‑assisted tooling. • Knowledge of SQL, data warehouses, or analytics platforms is a plus.
Required Education & Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience). No mandatory certifications.