Strategic Employment Partners (SEP)

Principal Frontend Engineer

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP)  •  $200k/yr  •  New York City, NY (Hybrid)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

About the Role

We're a seed-stage AI automation company building the control plane that lets businesses design, deploy, and manage intelligent back-office workflows. Think visual workflow builders, real-time observability dashboards, and hybrid interfaces that serve both technical and non-technical users — layered on top of enterprise ERP systems.

We recently hired a designer. Now we need the engineer who executes. This role owns the frontend control plane UI — the surface our customers live in every day. You'll work directly with founders, ship fast, and have a significant say in how the product looks and behaves.

This is a hybrid role. We're opening an office in Union Square and expect engineers in the office a few days per week. Remote-only candidates will not be considered.

What You'll Build

  • The core control plane UI — workflow authoring, agent configuration, task management, and human-in-the-loop approval surfaces
  • Reporting and observability dashboards for workflow performance and analytics
  • Real-time data sync layers using WebSockets and Server-Sent Events
  • Adaptive interfaces that serve both technical operators and business users
  • API integrations in close collaboration with backend engineers

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

  • 4–7 years of full-stack experience, strongly frontend-weighted (60–80% UI work)
  • Expert-level React with TypeScript — production-grade, recent, modern patterns
  • Proven experience building complex interactive UIs: dashboards, workflow builders, visual editors, data-rich applications
  • Modern CSS proficiency — Tailwind preferred
  • Full-stack integration experience: building and consuming APIs, collaborating with backend
  • Product mindset — you care about how things feel and function, not just whether they ship
  • NYC-based or genuinely willing to commute to Union Square a few days per week
  • Existing US work authorization required — visa sponsorship is not available

Nice-to-haves:

  • Real-time UI experience: WebSockets, SSE, collaborative editing
  • Background at a workflow builder, no-code/low-code, or visual editor company (Retool, Airtable, Notion, Zapier, Monday.com, etc.)
  • Enterprise SaaS or B2B tooling exposure
  • Early-stage startup experience (seed through Series B)
  • State management library depth: Zustand, Redux, or Recoil

Why This Role

  • Genuinely hard UI problems — visual programming, real-time collaboration, enterprise workflow UX. Not another CRUD app.
  • Founding team equity at a well-backed seed round. The equity is meaningful.
  • Small team (~16 people), direct founder access, and real ownership of a critical product surface from day one.
  • Competitive base: $200K–$250K depending on experience.

Not a Fit If:

  • You're primarily backend or infrastructure-focused
  • You need visa sponsorship
  • You're only open to remote
  • Your background is exclusively FAANG/large company with no startup exposure
  • You're on a people management track
Strategic Employment Partners (SEP)

About Strategic Employment Partners (SEP)

Take Advantage of SEP’s Vast Network of Contacts

SEP bridges connections between companies and people, and helps to develop forward-thinking organizations.

SEP connects the world’s top talent—that’s you!—with the world’s best companies. Our team of talented recruitment specialists invest time in understanding your career aspirations so that we can help you find a role suited to your goals that brings out your full potential.

Solutions for Today and Beyond

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) is a premier Full Service Advisory and Recruiting firm with offices from coast to coast.

We go beyond the traditional staffing model in order to bring you customized solutions that work in today’s economy.

We have offices in Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Denver, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and New York.

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
Year Founded
2006
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