Srcbook

Build web applications in minutes using AI.

Senior Frontend Engineer

$150K - $235K / 1.00% - 2.00%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Nicholas Charriere
Nicholas Charriere
Founder

About the role

Srcbook’s mission is nothing short of building the next framework for making websites. We have a lot of advanced and challenging frontend challenges to solve, like how to iterate visually on a live UI, or how to build the most intuitive, fast, simple yet powerful interface to allow anyone to iterate on web apps. If you care a lot about building simple, intuitive and fast experiences, this is the role for you!

We’re hiring a strong UI and frontend engineer to own the largest frontend problems we have for our online app builder.

Why join

As a small team, we work in a highly collaborative environment and you'll have the opportunity to participate in every part of the business from idea to production.

Impact: Build the foundation and shape of our core app, our engineering practices, and company culture.

Excellence: Practice your craft with other very senior ICs in a well-organized, fast-paced environment.

Ownership: The team is small and very senior. You’ll work directly with the founders, influence the direction of product and strategy — we care about your opinions.

What You'll Own

  • Evolving our main web application and development experience
  • Building real-time collaborative features
  • Implementing intuitive UI patterns for non-technical users (think Figma or Webflow style interactions).
  • Help design the best frontend framework stack for AIs to build in
  • Expanding our platform's capabilities into full-stack territory (allow users to build “backend features” and “persist data” in their apps).

Near-term Priorities

  • Advanced AI interaction patterns (contextual element manipulation, like the browser dev tools to select parts of the UI and pass them to the AI as context)
  • Real-time collaboration foundation
  • Performance optimization across the stack
  • Full-stack framework integration with data layer support

Who You Are

Must-haves:

  • 4+ years of frontend development experience
  • Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend tools
  • Track record of shipping polished, user-focused products
  • Passionate about AI’s potential in coding. You are already using AI tools to code and believe it can supercharge our domain.
  • Highly productive while producing quality code. You enjoy pushing out features in a pragmatic and maintainable way. You know when to use duct tape and when to lay a foundation.

Nice-to-haves:

  • Design sensibility. While you'll co-craft the interface with top designers and frontend engineers, we expect you to have a knack for great UX, such that you feel if something is off and can flag it, or better yet, polish it.
  • Experience with AI/LLM tools in development
  • Familiarity with Elixir/Phoenix (we'll teach you if you don’t, no worries)

You should be:

  • Curious and driven, never afraid of hard problems
  • Obsessed with shipping and delighting users, you understand that velocity is key to winning in startups
  • A startup person: Ready for startup intensity with massive ownership, high impact and tons of financial upside when we win, but understand that the journey can be intense

Our Stack

We’re pragmatic engineers who have built very large scale systems. We like making choices which optimize for simplicity and don’t over-engineer our architecture until it makes sense to. Our current stack is:

  • Frontend: React, TypeScript
  • Backend: Elixir (Phoenix). Opinionated and terribly productive.
  • Database: PostgreSQL
  • Infrastructure: fly.io, Cloudflare

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity — multiple options based on your desire for ownership:
    • $180K - $250K
    • 1.25% - 2%
  • Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, and accessories.
  • Unlimited vacation (with startup work-life balance).
  • Hybrid flexible schedule 3 days onsite in SF.
  • Opportunity to work on something really big!

Interview Process

  • Technical discussion: You’ll chat with our CTO about your technical background and dive into a project together.
  • Behavioral and cultural fit: You’ll chat with our CEO about your work style to try to determine if it’s a good mutual fit.
  • Programming exercise: we’ll set you up with a real programming problem (not a leetcode exercise). You hack on it for 90mins and then we debrief / pair together on the result

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Ready to reinvent how the world builds software? JOIN US!!

About the interview

Our interview process consists of some behavioral interviews (this means we meet to see if we are a good fit) and some pair programming on a real problem. We value your time and ours, so we will be keeping the interview to around a half day and will be decisive with moving forward or not.

About Srcbook

Join us at Srcbook

We are building the future of TypeScript devtooling. We believe that more teams than ever are building in TypeScript, but there isn't a good prototyping environment which allows to explore libraries, try out ideas, and deploy simple apps incredibly fast.

So we're building it. It starts with an open-source notebook: https://srcbook.com, but the long term vision is to give the ability to TypeScript devs to ship mini-apps incredibly fast, by focusing on the backend code.

We also believe that AI should be heavily leveraged, so our app uses it as a copilot. Because a notebook is different than an IDE, we can do lots of very interesting UX tricks to make iterating and generating with AI very easy.

We're looking for devs who are curious, driven and autonomous. You are a good fit if you're passionate about TS, devtools, and the UX of coding.

Join us!

Srcbook
Founded:2023
Team Size:2
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Nicholas Charriere
Nicholas Charriere
Founder
Ben Reinhart
Ben Reinhart
Founder