Senior Engineer, Full-Stack, Frontend Focus - Forge Applications (R6231)
Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Engineering
Hybrid (San Diego, CA), Hybrid (San Mateo, CA)$130k - $240kFull Time EmployeePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior full-stack engineer with strong frontend focus to design and build customer-facing Forge applications for Hivemind autonomy workflows, primarily using TypeScript and React, with backend integration as needed.
Responsibilities
- Design and build frontend experiences in TypeScript and React for autonomy development workflows such as simulation, synthetic data generation, and test and evaluation.
- Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive apps and workflows.
- Partner with Hivemind Pilot developers, Hivemind Solutions teams, product, and design to understand user needs and improve applications through feedback.
- Use Forge’s UI Platform to deliver consistent application experiences and drive improvements through collaborating on concrete requirements.
- Integrate domain APIs and services, building or extending backend capabilities as needed to complete application workflows.
- Design reusable application components and extension points that let other teams specialize workflows.
Qualifications
- Experience delivering and supporting production web applications, with substantial ownership of frontend architecture and user experience.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, routing, auth, and web architecture.
- Ability to translate complex technical workflows into intuitive interfaces in collaboration with users, subject-matter experts, and designers.
- Experience building responsive, accessible interfaces and diagnosing frontend performance issues with profiling.
- Experience integrating APIs and handling loading states, errors, long-running operations, and evolving service contracts.
- Ability to work across the stack, including reading, debugging, and extending backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
- Experience testing UI components, application behavior, and complete user workflows.
- Sound judgment about when to use shared platform capabilities, contribute reusable improvements, or keep a solution specific to an application.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across product, design, platform, and domain teams.
Skills
Required:TypeScriptReactFrontend architecture
Benefits
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
- Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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