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Staff Front End Engineer

Ridezum
Location
Hybrid Remote/ Redwood City, CA
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Engineering
Salary
$240,000 - $280,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Senior+ or Staff-level front end engineering experience
  • Strong, hands-on experience with Angular
  • Experience with reactive UI patterns and RxJS or equivalent observables-based architecture
  • Comfort building and owning enterprise, data-dense web applications
  • Experience technically leading or mentoring other engineers
  • Genuine interest in AI-driven automation
Nice to have
  • Experience stepping into or consolidating a tech lead function previously shared across multiple people
  • Startup background
  • Experience with mobile web, not native mobile, not React Native
  • Domain experience in mobility, logistics, fleet, or other operationally complex enterprise software
  • Experience with mapping or GPS-adjacent UI
What the job really is

As a Staff Front End Engineer at Zūm, you will lead the technical direction for the front end team while actively contributing as a hands-on engineer. Your responsibilities include making architectural decisions for the Angular codebase, mentoring a distributed team in Ukraine, and collaborating closely with product managers and backend engineers to deliver reliable front end systems. You will also drive the use of AI tooling to enhance development efficiency and consolidate technical leadership within the front end function.

Benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401(k)
  • Holidays
  • Wellness
Things to weigh
  • Requires onsite presence 3x/week in Redwood City, CA
  • Candidates must be based in the Bay Area
  • Role involves leading a distributed team in Ukraine
  • No specific mention of work-life balance or flexibility in hours
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