Principal Frontend Engineer

Who you are:As a Principal Frontend Engineer, you are a technical leader, shaping and driving the user experience at Clerk Chat. You take ownership of complex challenges and deliver highly interactive, scalable, and reliable applications. With a deep understanding of frontend architecture, performance optimization, and scalability, you'll lead efforts to improve the messaging interface, user onboarding, and AI-driven workflows. You're passionate about building seamless user experiences in a real-time data-heavy environment.What You Will Do:Lead the development and enhancement of our messaging interface, ensuring high scalability and reliabilityDrive the integration of AI workflows into the frontend experienceSpearhead the design and implementation of user onboarding featuresOptimize the front-end architecture for performance in a highly interactive, data-intensive environmentCollaborate with cross-functional teams, including backend engineers, AI specialists, and UI/UX designersMentor and guide frontend engineers, ensuring high-quality code and design practicesMake critical architectural decisions that impact the scalability and performance of our frontend systemsEnsure the frontend codebase maintains high standards of testing, using frameworks within ReactWhat You Will Need:Empathy and a user-focused mindsetExtensive experience with Typescript, HTML, CSS.Deep expertise in React and related frameworksPractical knowledge of testing frameworks in React (e.g., Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library)Proven experience designing and optimizing highly interactive, real-time and data-intensive web applicationsAbility to architect and scale frontend systems for high-availability environmentsFamiliarity with continuous delivery, version control systems (e.g., Git), and automated testingStrong autonomy, self-motivation, and time management skillsA passion for mentoring and helping other engineers growWhy Join Us:At Clerk Chat, you'll have the unique opportunity to:Work on cutting-edge AI integrations and data-driven systems at scaleBe part of a fast-growing, profitable startup that values work-life balanceCollaborate with a world-class team of engineers and entrepreneursShape the future of conversational business applications

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply! Our recruiting team will carefully review each resume, and we look forward to considering you for this opportunity.

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