10 months ago
Base Salary
$240k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own front-end technical decisions and architecture across the Angular codebase, including state management and reactive UI patterns.
- Lead, mentor, unblock, and set technical direction for the Ukraine-based front-end engineering team.
- Write production code and ship reliable features for dispatch, school, vendor, and maps portals.
- Partner with product managers and backend engineers to turn product direction into front-end systems.
- Establish architectural standards for Angular applications handling state, data density, and reactive patterns.
- Identify and implement AI tooling and automation opportunities to accelerate front-end development.
- Consolidate front-end technical decision-making and provide infrastructure-level technical leadership.
Requirements
- Senior+ or Staff-level front-end engineering experience with a record of technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on Angular experience.
- Experience with reactive UI patterns and RxJS or equivalent observables-based architecture.
- Experience building and owning enterprise, data-dense web applications.
- Experience technically leading or mentoring engineers, ideally across a distributed team.
- Genuine interest in AI-driven automation and opinions on where engineering teams can move faster.
- Preferred experience consolidating a tech lead function, working at a startup, and building mobile web applications.
- Bonus experience in mobility, logistics, fleet, operationally complex enterprise software, mapping or GPS-adjacent interfaces, and Figma-based design collaboration.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), holidays, wellness, vacation, and additional benefits.
- Full-time salaried or hourly employment with potential equity or commissions in addition to base salary.
- Onsite work in Redwood Shores, California, three days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; candidates must already be based in the Bay Area.
Tech Stack
AngularReact Native
Categories
About Zum
Zum builds and operates a student transportation platform for school districts, combining routing and dispatch software, driver and parent apps, and turnkey operations, with growing SaaS and charter services. The privately held company contracts with districts to run daily service and is electrifying school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid capabilities. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Zum operates in 15+ U.S. states and reports adoption by over 4,500 schools.