Senior Full Stack Engineer (Front-end)
Recruiting From Scratch · San Francisco, CA
$180,000–$250,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role at a Series A AI infrastructure company, focused on owning the frontend architecture of an enterprise platform that helps organizations build and deploy LLM-powered applications. Day-to-day work spans building React and Next.js web applications, maintaining design systems and CI/CD workflows, and collaborating with product, design, and enterprise customers. Suits an engineer with 4–8 years of experience who has shipped customer-facing products end-to-end and is comfortable taking broad technical ownership.
Senior level · 4+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,000 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 760–1,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). 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 (8)
The 4–8 year experience range is stated under 'Experience Requirements'; 4 years is used as the overall years minimum.
A Bachelor's degree in CS or a technical discipline is listed as 'preferred', and the JD explicitly notes 'exceptional candidates with outstanding engineering accomplishments considered', so no hard degree requirement is set.
Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, and Temporal appear in the 'What You'll Do' narrative as the backend stack engineers collaborate with — not as gates on the candidate. Python is also listed as 'preferred' under Technical Requirements.
React Query and shadcn/ui are listed together under Technical Requirements with 'or similar modern frontend ecosystems', making them interchangeable preferred options rather than hard gates.
Experience building AI-native products or LLM-powered applications is explicitly marked 'preferred' in the Technical Requirements section.
Experience at high-growth startups and larger technology companies is listed as 'preferred' in the Experience Requirements section.
The role is hybrid (Mon/Wed/Fri in San Francisco), not fully remote.
Visa sponsorship is available for H-1B transfers and TN visas, but no new H-1B cap-subject sponsorship is offered.
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