Staff Frontend Engineer

About the role

Forma.ai is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to shape the technical direction, architecture, and long‑term evolution of its customer‑facing and internal operations experiences. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will act as a frontend technical leader, driving alignment, setting standards, and solving complex, data‑intensive problems.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and evolution of Forma’s frontend systems, patterns, and best practices.
• Drive large, cross‑cutting frontend initiatives spanning multiple product areas and teams.
• Translate complex compensation and operational workflows into scalable, extensible UI systems and abstractions.
• Define and standardize reusable frontend and data‑visualization patterns across the platform.
• Improve frontend performance, reliability, accessibility, testing strategy, and developer experience at a systems level.
• Mentor and guide engineers, raising overall quality and consistency of frontend development.

Required profile

• Deep experience building and scaling production web applications with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Proven experience designing frontend architecture for complex, data‑heavy, configurable applications.
• Strong expertise in component design, state management, performance optimization, and testing at scale.
• Experience building dashboards, BI tools, reporting, analytics, or data‑visualization platforms.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical strategy.

Required skills

• React
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Component design
• State management
• Performance optimization
• Testing at scale
• Data visualization
• AWS
• Docker
• Java / Springboot
• Django
• PostgreSQL

What we offer

• Competitive base salary plus employee stock ownership plan.
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.