Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
Optimal Dynamics5 months ago
Base 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
Optimal Dynamics builds a SaaS decision layer that uses AI and stochastic optimization to plan, optimize, and automate truckload logistics for carriers, private fleets, and brokerages. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, sells subscriptions and services for strategic simulations, dispatch automation, and load acceptance. It has raised a Series C led by Koch Disruptive Technologies and bases its technology on decades of research at Princeton University.