Frontend Engineer

We're seeking an exceptional and ambitious Frontend engineer who thrives in high-intensity environment with lots of unsolved challenges and wants to build something revolutionary.

Our team moves fast, works hard and solves big problems. We're focused on rapid execution and creating outsized impact in the legal space.

👋🏼 Hello! We’re ALMA

Backed by leading VCs such as Bling Capital, Forerunner, Village Global, NFX, Conviction, MVP Ventures, NEA and Silkroad Innovation Hub, Alma is on a mission to forever change immigration for the better!

We're focused on simplifying complex immigration processes for companies and individuals, and disrupting $10b market that has never seen an amazing product!

🧠 Founding Team

The founding team has an extensive background in the legal industry, consulting, and building ML platforms.

• Shuo - CTO & Cofounder: Shuo built the ML Platform (Michelangelo) at Uber for 5+ years after which he was the head of AI & ML team at a SupportLogic (a series B startup backed by General Catalyst using predictive & generative AI for customer support).

• Aizada - CEO & Cofounder: Aizada is a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney with 7+ years of experience including working at a top law firm such as Cooley and an ex-McKinsey consultant.

• Assel - CPO & Cofounder: Assel is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has 7 years of experience building products at FinTechs such as SoFi and Step and at large financial institutions when working at Ernst & Young.

🔍 What we're looking for

We are looking for a highly-skilled and ambitious frontend engineer with 5+ years of developing web applications who is super pumped about building AI native products to make immigration easy. You will own the products end-to-end and solve the hard problems. We need you to be in the 99th percentile of having a “can-do” attitude.

✅ Responsibilities

• Work closely with the founding team to implement Alma web applications.

• Translate UI/UX designs and wireframes into high-quality code, producing visual elements of the product.

• Develop and maintain all aspects of our web applications, ensuring high performance and seamless integration with our backend.

• Evaluate and leverage advanced JavaScript/Typescript libraries and frameworks.

• Build reusable code/components/libraries for future use.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge.

🛠 Role Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a frontend engineer with a proven track record.

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3.

• We use React.js and Next.js and deploy the app through Vercel and expect you to have advanced knowledge of them.

• Familiarity with server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS.

• Experience with CI/CD workflows such as Github actions and CircleCI

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.

• Knowledge of package manager such as Yarn or NPM and module bundler such as Webpack.

• Proficient on translating a product design into technical design and UI implementation

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and enjoy the start-up culture

• BS/MS in Computer Science

• If you are located in bay area, we would love to see you in office several days a week. Otherwise, we will see you over zoom.

⭐️ Nice-to-haves

• Experience with design and implement data modeling and APIs.

• Experience working in a small startup environment (Seed or Series A).

• Experience working with LLMs such as GPTs, Claude or open source LLMs.