Technical Lead, Frontend

Your Impact

• Onyx is a popular open source project with hundreds of thousands of users.
• The project has over 13K stars and over 3K community members across Slack and Discord (these stats may already be out of date when you read this).
• You’ll have the opportunity to build in the open and your work may be used by millions of people in the future.

About the Role

As an early hire, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core product. Help us become the biggest “GenAI for work” application in the world!

You’ll be

• Doing everything frontend for the default open-source chat interface, enterprise search platform, and agent builder. Some specific features:
• Beautiful core search and chat experience (animations, speed, etc.). Think building the UI/UX layer for Perplexity AND ChatGPT in one.
• Huge feature set: workspace search, internet search, code interpreter, artifacts, deep research, and so much more
• Collaborating closely with the design team + founders
• Setting frontend priorities and best practices
• Building an exceptional design / frontend engineering culture
• Fostering an open-source community; guiding contributors on adding to the frontend

This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA.

You’ll Be Successful If You Have

• 4+ years of frontend engineering experience building complex, user-facing applications
• Have an incredible bar for yourself and for others. You want your work to be exceptional, and accept nothing less.
• In-depth experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NextJS and other modern frontend technologies
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Strong product/design intuition.

Bonus Points

• Familiar with Python, Postgres
• Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Previous founder or early engineer at seed/series-A startup

Why You Should Join US

• You like working with brilliant (yet humble), thoughtful, and collaborative people
• Great benefits including fully covered health/dental/vision and transportation reimbursement
• Free meals - We have our Mix’t loyalists and a rebel faction of unhealthy eaters
• Stocked kitchen with drinks, snacks, matcha and an espresso machine
• Monthly company outings (bike rides to Mt. Tamalpais, escape rooms, etc.)
• We enjoy friendly competition - we built an internal ELO system to find the best ping pong players on the team
• Exceptional compensation packages for exceptional people