Senior Software Engineer, UI Development
Distributed Spectrum5 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive new product experiences from concept through polished, shipped UI.
- Lead frontend architecture, including application structure, state management, component libraries, design systems, build tooling, testing strategy, and performance budgets.
- Integrate interfaces with agentic services and streaming responses, including tool-call visualization, human-in-the-loop approvals, and real-time updates.
- Build high-performance visualizations for large, fast-moving spectrum, map, and time-series datasets.
- Partner with product, design, and backend engineers to translate ambiguous goals into concrete interfaces.
- Establish frontend engineering standards for accessibility, testing, code review, and CI practices.
- Help define how agentic capabilities are natively incorporated into the product experience.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional frontend or UI engineering experience shipping production web applications.
- Strong hands-on experience with both Angular and React.
- Experience with TypeScript, component-driven architecture, state management, modern build tooling, and frontend testing.
- Experience designing and building a UI architecture from scratch for at least one significant product.
- Experience integrating with real-time and streaming backends such as WebSockets and SSE.
- Experience or interest in building interfaces for AI or agentic systems.
- Strong product sense and attention to detail.
- Preferred experience with D3, deck.gl, WebGL, Canvas-based rendering, Mapbox, MapLibre, or Cesium.
- Preferred experience building design systems or component libraries used across multiple teams.
- Preferred familiarity with Node, Python, and cloud deployment of frontend assets.
- Preferred experience designing for operators in high-stakes or time-critical environments.
Benefits
- Above-market salary, equity, and benefits package.
- Early Series A equity.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) match of up to 4% of salary.
- Flexible PTO.
- Daily office lunches in NYC.
- The role is based in NYC and has ITAR eligibility requirements.
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About Distributed Spectrum
Distributed Spectrum builds software and sensor systems for radio spectrum intelligence, combining signal processing, machine learning, and embedded computing for defense and government operators. Its products collect and analyze RF data and run trained models on low-power devices to detect and interpret critical signals in the field. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and venture-backed.