Kikoff

Staff Engineer - Web Applications

Kikoff
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Base Salary

$307k - $352k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical strategy and architecture of the company-wide web frontend across Kikoff, Grant, and future products.
  • Lead performance tuning for high-traffic surfaces through instrumentation, profiling, optimization, performance budgets, and Core Web Vitals improvements.
  • Lead frontend infrastructure work spanning tooling, observability, monitoring, testing, developer experience, and build/deploy pipelines.
  • Build and evolve shared UI components and libraries and establish frontend standards and code review practices.
  • Lead complex cross-team projects that improve product reliability, responsiveness, and polish.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the organization’s technical bar.

Requirements

  • B.A., B.S., M.S., or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science.
  • 8+ years of industry experience leading large consumer-facing web applications across multiple teams.
  • Experience building and operating consumer websites serving hundreds of thousands to millions of users at scale.
  • Deep hands-on experience with frontend performance tuning, including profiling, instrumentation, bundle optimization, rendering performance, caching/CDN strategy, and performance budgets.
  • Experience owning frontend infrastructure, build systems, design systems, observability, testing frameworks, and developer tooling.
  • Deep hands-on production experience with React.
  • Track record of measurable improvements in quality and performance, including load times, error rates, test coverage, and reliability.
  • Ability to influence technical direction and align teams without direct authority.
  • Ability to analyze data and distill information for business purposes.

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About Kikoff

201-500 employees
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