Working Location
This role is a remote position, you must be based out of one of the following states: Arizona,California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah or Washington
Job Summary
We're looking for a deeply experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to raise the bar for frontend architecture and quality in our AI team, align it with the broader application best practices, and help promote frontend excellence across teams.
This is not a feature factory role. This is a high ownership, cross team leadership role.
What You’ll Do:
Own frontend architecture and quality for all AI features.
Align AI frontend implementation with wider application standards, including shared components, service API patterns, and design system usage.
Partner with organization frontend leaders to learn, internalize, and propagate best practices across teams.
Contribute to and evolve our shared design system and atomic component architecture.
Drive consistency across shared components, service APIs, and UI patterns.
Lead large, complex frontend initiatives end to end.
Work closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous ideas into scalable, high quality UI systems.
Provide strong technical direction and mentorship to frontend contributors.
Establish frontend observability and tracking standards, including analytics and instrumentation.
Ensure performance, accessibility, and maintainability across the UI surface area.
Collaborate with backend and ML engineers to integrate AI powered experiences into a production grade frontend.
What We’re Looking For:
Senior Level Frontend Depth
5+ years of frontend engineering experience.
Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
Strong understanding of atomic design principles and scalable component architecture.
Proven experience contributing to or leading a design system.
Experience maintaining frontend quality across multiple teams or product surfaces.
Experience with GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs.
Technical Leadership
Communicates blockers and concerns early, with clear reasoning and a focus on business impact.
Able to advocate for quality and architectural direction with concrete examples and data.
Experience mentoring engineers and raising frontend standards.
Experience using AI tools to assist in development and design.
Product & Quality Mindset
Experience implementing analytics and tracking.
Familiarity with tools like Datadog or similar observability platforms.
Preferred experience running or implementing A/B tests and using experimentation to inform product decisions.
Strong collaboration history with product designers using Figma and wireframes.
Comfortable resolving design inconsistencies proactively, not passively.
Cross Functional Strength
Experience working across teams and bringing alignment to shared patterns.
Able to embed temporarily with another engineering group to internalize best practices and bring them back.
Nice to Have:
Experience integrating AI or ML driven features into production UIs.
Familiarity with GraphQL and service oriented frontend architecture.
Experience working in fast growing startup environments.
Experience with Rails or Python is a plus.
Why This Role Matters
VAI is at an inflection point. We need a frontend leader who can elevate quality, align with application frontend standards, and confidently deliver large scale UI projects.
This role will directly influence how AI powered features are experienced by advisors and ensure frontend excellence across the platform.
The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $190,000 Our compensation packages also include a performance based bonus and equity. Compensation is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship now or in the future. Vanilla is unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
