Software Engineer (Front-End)
Recruiting From Scratch · San Francisco, CA
$220,000–$300,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A front-end engineering role at a seed-stage cybersecurity startup building identity protection software for Microsoft environments. The engineer will design and ship customer-facing features on the core SaaS platform using React and TypeScript, contribute to frontend architecture, and work alongside backend engineers on AI-powered security products. The role suits someone with 3–10 years of frontend experience who has shipped production software at a startup and is comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of product features.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 135,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 81,000–202,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The job posting specifies fully on-site in San Francisco (Market Street, 5 days/week), but the caller has instructed this be treated as a fully-remote, national-pool role — metro has been left blank accordingly.
Experience range is stated as '3–10 years'; the lower bound (3) is used for the overall years minimum. The wide range and seed-stage context (small team, high ownership) are consistent with a Mid-to-Senior band; Mid is chosen as the lower of the two given the 3-year floor and the caller's instruction to avoid over-calling seniority.
The title 'Software Engineer (Front-End)' carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level.
NestJS and Node.js appear together in the Technical Requirements section as 'NestJS, Node.js, or modern backend development' — treated as interchangeable alternatives for a single preferred backend familiarity requirement, not a hard gate since the role is frontend-focused and the phrasing is disjunctive.
Python appears in the 'What You'll Do' narrative as a backend collaboration context ('NestJS, Node.js, and Python'), not as a standalone gated requirement — listed as preferred.
AI/ML feature experience is explicitly marked 'preferred' in both the experience and technical requirements sections.
Bachelor's degree is listed as 'preferred' and the posting explicitly states 'Strong design-focused candidates with exceptional engineering ability also considered' — the degree requirement is None.
Equity of 0.1–0.3% is noted in the posting but cannot be represented in the compensation fields, which capture base salary only.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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