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With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.\nWe're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.\nWhy Kikoff:\nThis is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.\nWe're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to raise the technical bar for our company-wide web product surfaces, spanning Kikoff, Grant, and the products we build next, all in service of our mission to help millions of Americans.\nThis role goes beyond shipping features. You'll own the health, performance, and architecture of the frontend systems that serve our traffic at scale every day. You'll set technical direction, drive the frontend infrastructure roadmap, and treat performance as a product feature. Like everyone here, you'll work hand-in-hand with PMs, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to make sure what we ship is fast, reliable, and moves the needle in a meaningful, measurable way.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nOwn the technical strategy and architecture of Kikoff's company-wide web frontend across Kikoff, Grant, and future products, including component systems, state management, rendering strategy, routing, and build/deploy pipelines\nOwn performance tuning for our highest-traffic surfaces: instrumentation, performance budgets, profiling, and optimization of Core Web Vitals, load times, and runtime responsiveness\nLead frontend infrastructure work (tooling, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, testing, developer experience) so that every engineer can ship high quality, performant UI by default\nBuild and evolve the shared UI components and libraries that product teams build on, and set frontend standards and code review practices across the org\nLead complex, cross-team projects that measurably improve the reliability, responsiveness, and polish of our product\nMentor engineers across the team and raise the technical bar\nRequirements:\nB.A. / B.S. / M.S. or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science\n8+ years of industry experience, with a track record of leading large consumer facing web applications across multiple teams\nExperience building and operating consumer websites at scale, serving hundreds of thousands to millions of users, where performance and reliability directly affect the business\nDeep hands-on experience with frontend performance tuning: profiling, instrumentation, bundle optimization, rendering performance, caching/CDN strategy, and performance budgets\nExperience owning frontend infrastructure: build systems, design systems, observability, testing frameworks, and developer tooling that make other engineers more productive\nHands-on and Deep experience with React in production\nA record of driving measurable improvements in quality and performance (load times, error rates, test coverage, reliability)\nAbility to influence technical direction and get alignment across teams without direct authority\nAbility to analyze data and distill information for business purposes\nDesire to form strong professional bonds with startup-forward coworkers\nBase Range\n$307,000—$352,000 USD\nA note on applying: We know great candidates sometimes hold back if they don’t meet every qualification listed. 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