Founding Frontend Engineer

About Skiffra

Skiffra is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We translate complex, real-world environments into clear, actionable data.

While most AI companies focus on digital industries, we design AI native orchestration systems for the sectors that extract, move, and build ecosystems around us. We turn messy, high stakes operations into intelligent, adaptive workflows that improve decisions in real time.

Our first proving ground is mining and natural resources, but the platform is modular by design and built to scale into any industry where decisions are expensive and the consequences are real.

Founding Front End Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Own frontend architecture and implementation for Skiffra’s customer-facing products across mobile, tablet, and desktop, partnering closely with product and design

• Build responsive interfaces for people working in the field on tablets and phones: bad lighting, gloved hands, time pressure, spotty connectivity, and no room for error

• Build end-to-end features alongside AI, data, and backend engineers, shaping services, integrations, and API contracts

• Turn ambiguous, operationally complex problems and AI outputs into clear, intuitive interfaces

• Prototype quickly, watch real users in the field, and iterate on what you learn

• Establish component patterns, automated testing, accessibility, performance, and engineering standards from scratch

• Evolve the visual system and interaction patterns with product and design

• Shape hiring and engineering culture as part of the founding team

What We’re Looking For

• Mobile-first expertise: a track record shipping responsive web apps that perform as well on phones and tablets in the field as on desktop

• Built for unreliable networks: resilient apps that handle intermittent connectivity through local caching, retry behavior, and recovery from interrupted sessions

• Deep React and TypeScript skills, with polished, customer-facing web apps in production

• Sharp product and UX judgment: you spot confusing interactions, improve incomplete designs, and collaborate fluidly in Figma

• Skill building data-dense, high-stakes interfaces (dashboards, real-time monitoring, alerts, complex workflows) with sound data-visualization instincts

• Comfort designing for asynchronous and AI-assisted workflows: streaming responses, long-running tasks, evidence, confidence, approvals, and human overrides

• Ability to take a feature from concept to production with minimal direction

• Solid command of integrating with APIs, asynchronous services, and data-intensive systems

• Working knowledge of accessibility: semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, focus management, screen-reader support, and WCAG

• Effective debugging across browser, network, API, and production environments

• Clear communicator with a bias toward action and simplicity, comfortable in ambiguity

• Portfolio or work samples showing polished mobile and desktop interfaces, dashboards, data visualization, and complex workflows

Nice to Have

• Next.js and modern frontend tooling

• AI-augmented or agentic products

• Component libraries or design systems at scale

• Startup, founding-engineer, or zero-to-one background

• Software for industrial, operational, or field users

• Real-time data, streaming interfaces, and complex application state

How We Work

We value speed, clarity, and technical rigor. We favor simple systems over clever ones, prototypes over over-planning, and ownership over handoffs. You’ll work directly with founders and ship things that matter quickly.

Location & Work Model

This is a hybrid role with regular in-person collaboration in Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area. We are not a remote-only company.

Work Authorization

Candidates must be authorized to work in the country where this role is based. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Benefits & Eligibility

This position is eligible for Skiffra’s standard benefits, including health insurance and retirement plans, and may also qualify for participation in the Company’s bonus and incentive programs.

Equal Opportunity

Skiffra is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.