Front is the leading AI-powered customer service platform built for collaboration. Front brings core support channels into a modern, intuitive workspace where teams can collaborate on requests, automate manual processes, and delight customers across their entire lifecycle. Front’s flexible workflows, AI features, and customer intelligence provide the efficiency and insights to keep entire organizations customer-first, every day. More than 9,000 of the most innovative companies worldwide including CultureAmp, HootSuite, and Y Combinator use Front to deliver five-star service at scale.Backed by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Ventures, Front has raised $204M from leading venture capital firms and independent investors including top executives at Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, Zoom, and PagerDuty. Front has received numerous Great Place to Work accolades, including Built In's 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in SF 2025, Top Places to Work by USA Today 2025, Y Combinator's list of Top Companies in 2023, #4 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ ,Inc. Magazine's 2022 Best Workplaces list, and Forbes Best Startup Employers 2022 List.We’re looking for a strong and trusted Senior Software Engineer who operates independently and takes full ownership of technical components and initiatives. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise with a strong sense of responsibility, collaboration, and mentorship.You will play a key role in delivering complex projects, shaping technical direction within your domain, and raising the bar for engineering quality across the team.What will you be doing?Take full ownership of significant components or services, driving them from design to production with minimal direction.Be a go-to expert in one area of the codebase while maintaining awareness of system-wide architecture.Apply technical expertise and domain knowledge to solve complex problems requiring creativity and sound engineering judgment.Plan and execute major assignments or multiple concurrent projects, balancing pace, quality, and long-term maintainability.Serve as a technical contact on cross-functional projects, coordinating with product, design, and other teams.Mentor and uplift the team through code reviews, documentation, guidance, and technical leadership on project delivery.Make others better by offering thoughtful technical feedback, contributing to standards, and championing best practices.What skills & experience do you need?Advanced expertise in JavaScript / TypeScript, with strong experience building scalable backend services using Node.js.Strong proficiency with frontend frameworks such as React and modern web development patterns.Experience with scalable cloud infrastructure and AWS services (e.g., Lambda, S3, RDS), CI/CD pipelines, and production deployments.Familiarity with RESTful APIs, modern database systems (SQL or NoSQL), and distributed system challenges.Ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and speed of delivery.Strong collaboration skills to work with cross-functional partners.Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide others technically.Experience with GraphQL, API integrations, feature flagging systems, or server-side rendering frameworks.What we offerCompetitive salary in USDFront provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the California Recruiting Privacy Notice & EU Privacy Notice