Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
Optimal DynamicsBase Salary
$165k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale performant, accessible, and maintainable frontend systems using React and TypeScript.
- Own frontend architecture decisions involving state management, component design, and application structure.
- Lead the development and evolution of reusable component libraries and scalable design systems.
- Optimize application performance, load times, responsiveness, testing, observability, and frontend reliability.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver cohesive end-to-end features.
- Translate complex logistics requirements into intuitive UI and UX solutions.
- Mentor engineers and drive frontend technical decisions and engineering excellence across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- Senior-level expertise in React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems.
- Proven experience building and scaling complex, production-grade single-page applications.
- Deep understanding of frontend architecture, state management, performance optimization, and component design patterns.
- Experience integrating frontend applications with APIs and distributed backend systems.
- Familiarity with modern frontend tooling, testing frameworks, and CI/CD workflows.
- Experience collaborating with design teams using Figma and contributing to design systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions is a bonus.
- Experience building or maintaining design systems or component libraries is a bonus.
- Familiarity with data-heavy or real-time user interfaces is a bonus.
- Experience with event-driven architectures such as Kafka is a bonus.
- Background in logistics, transportation systems, or other complex operational domains is a bonus.
Benefits
- Full-time, remote-friendly role open to candidates across the U.S., with an option to work from the New York City headquarters.
- Series C-level equity.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% covered for employees and 50% for dependents.
- Life insurance, optional supplemental insurance, FSA, HSA, 401(k) with match, and disability and AD&D insurance.
- Unlimited paid time off, 11 holidays, and paid parental leave.
- Fitness membership reimbursement and commuter benefits.
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About Optimal Dynamics
Logistics is a game of million-dollar decisions made in seconds. Yet, most of the industry still relies on legacy systems and manual intuition. Optimal Dynamics provides the "Decision Layer" that bridges the gap between human expertise and autonomous scale. Optimal Dynamics empowers transportation companies to better plan, optimize and automate strategic, tactical and real-time operational decisions. Based on 40 years of extensive research & development at Princeton University in conjunction with decades of real-world application, Optimal Dynamics reimagines how private fleets, dedicated capacity and for-hire carriers think about planning and operating their truckload assets, drivers and brokerage arms where applicable. Our platform enables users to ask hyper-detailed strategic "what if" questions via a simulation-based environment. We then leverage those outputs to maximize network profitability, increase asset revenue and utilization, reduce unnecessary cost and mitigate risk, all while keeping drivers moving in the most efficient manner. Optimization is nothing new, but it’s extremely difficult to get right. Optimal Dynamics has proven to achieve outsized impacts for our customers.