Senior Front End Engineer

📍 Location: Palo Alto, CA (In-person Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri, WFH Weds)

💰 Compensation: $150K–$180K + 0.25%–0.75% equity

🏢 About Distro

Distro is building the AI platform of record for inside sales and counter reps in the industrial distribution industry. Our platform helps reps quote faster, close more business, and improve margins — all while delivering a superior customer experience.

We’re a well-funded, post-YC (S24) startup with strong early traction and growing customer demand. Our goal is to modernize a massive industry that has historically been underserved by software.

What You'll Do

• Build polished, performant UIs from Figma designs
• Collaborate with product design and customer success to prototype and iterate on user-facing features
• Own front-end quality, accessibility, responsiveness, and performance
• Work closely with backend engineers and AI APIs to deliver full-stack functionality
• Help define front-end stack, architecture, and conventions
• Contribute to core product thinking — especially around UI/UX and data visualization
• Move fast and prioritize learning — we ship real product to real users every week

What We're Looking For

• Strong front-end engineering experience (React or similar; ideally TypeScript)
• Pixel-perfect attention to detail and a deep appreciation for great UX
• Strong grasp of CSS, layout, responsiveness, and componentization
• Comfort working with APIs, edge cases, and real-world product constraints
• Ability to own projects end-to-end — design handoff to production
• In-person collaboration mindset — you enjoy working shoulder-to-shoulder with design, engineering, and go-to-market

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with LLM-enabled product experiences
• Experience working in vertical SaaS or high-stakes enterprise tools
• Background in testing, performance optimization, or animation
• Exposure to early-stage, fast-shipping environments

Tech Stack

• Typescript, React, Next, Mongo

🧭 How We Work

• This is an in-person role based in Palo Alto
• We work in office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
• Wednesdays are remote
• Every engineer at Distro is an individual contributor writing production code
• We prioritize speed, accountability, and strong cross-functional collaboration

📈 Why Join

You’ll be joining Distro at a formative stage — with real traction, real customers, and a huge market in need of transformation. This is an opportunity to help shape the product, the codebase, and the company’s future.

If you're excited by early-stage product development and want to build something impactful, we’d love to hear from you.

What Makes Distro Different

• Real AI, real users — We’re not building AI theater. Our product is used by hard-working sales reps solving complex quoting problems every day.
• Design-led culture — Product design is crisp, thoughtful, and first-class. You’ll work from clean Figma files with a strong design partner.
• Tight customer feedback loops — We talk to users every week and ship based on real workflows and pain points.
• High agency, in-person — We believe the best ideas happen at the whiteboard. We work together in our Palo Alto office and move quickly.
• Massive vertical, clear ROI — Our customers close more deals and make more margin using Distro. That’s the kind of impact you’ll be driving.