2 months ago
Base Salary
$210k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own front end technical decisions and architecture across the Angular codebase, including state management and reactive UI patterns.
- Lead and mentor the Ukraine-based front end team by setting direction, unblocking complex problems, and improving engineering quality.
- Write production code and ship reliable front end systems for dispatch, school, vendor, and maps portals.
- Partner with product managers and backend engineers to translate product direction into delivered web applications.
- Drive adoption of AI tooling and automation to improve front end development speed.
- Provide technical leadership for infrastructure-level front end work and consolidate technical decision-making under one owner.
Requirements
- Senior+ or Staff-level front end engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on Angular experience.
- Experience with RxJS or equivalent observables-based reactive UI architecture.
- Experience building and owning enterprise, data-dense web applications.
- Experience technically leading or mentoring engineers, preferably across a distributed team.
- Genuine interest in AI-driven engineering automation.
- Experience consolidating or taking over a tech lead function is preferred.
- Startup experience is preferred.
- Mobile web experience is preferred; native mobile and React Native experience do not satisfy this preference.
- Mobility, logistics, fleet, operational enterprise software, mapping/GPS-adjacent UI, or Figma-based design collaboration experience is a bonus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), holidays, wellness, vacation, and additional benefits.
- Stock options may be included in addition to base salary.
- The role is based at company headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, with onsite work required Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
- Candidates must already be based in the Bay Area.
- The Ukraine team’s hours overlap with headquarters hours until approximately 11 a.m. PT, so offshore-hour work is not required.
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.