Staff Frontend Engineer, Core

Summary

Join Trellis, a Series A startup, as a Staff Software Engineer on the Core Engineering team, contributing to the development of our insurance marketplace. As the second frontend engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the frontend roadmap, initiating new projects, and collaborating with various teams. You will lead development across internal tools and customer-facing applications, guide architectural decisions, and ensure system scalability. This role requires a meticulous and articulate individual with strong opinions, product-mindedness, and collaborative spirit. You will be responsible for evolving the frontend roadmap, owning high-impact projects, leading development of interfaces, implementing experiments to improve usability, optimizing customer intake flow, and collaborating with developers. The position offers opportunities for growth and development within a flat, collaborative, and transparent culture.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building fullstack applications with a focus on the frontend
• Deep production experience with React and Typescript
• Proven ability to lead projects from conception to execution
• Attention to detail and product-mindedness shaping intuitive user experiences for internal and external customers
• Experience building both internal tools and customer-facing interfaces
• Ability to adapt across the stack and contribute to backend or data work when needed
• Strong UX sensibility and user empathy, especially when building for non-technical users
• Data-driven approach with interest in experimentation and product analytics
• Experience influencing product direction and decision-making

Responsibilities

• Flesh out and evolve the frontend roadmap alongside product and technical leadership
• Own high-impact projects that drive user experience and business outcomes
• Lead development of both internal and external interfaces - from internal tools and dashboards to user-facing experiences and our website
• Conceptualize and implement experiments to improve usability, reduce friction, and optimize conversion
• Optimize the customer intake flow to deliver a more intuitive and efficient experience
• Work with internal customers to iterate quickly and deliver value for our growing insurance agency
• Drive momentum and clarity across initiatives through strong project ownership
• Contribute across the stack as needed, including backend services, API integrations, and data-related features
• Collaborate with other developers on your team, providing feedback on their solutions, reviewing their code, and ensuring quality
• Ensure scalability and performance across the platform as we continue to grow

Preferred Qualifications

• Meticulous: You pay attention to detail and take pride in what you deliver
• Articulate: You succinctly and effectively communicate verbal and written technical and non-technical ideas and topics
• Kind, not (just) nice: You provide tough feedback in a clear and concise manner that does not diminish or belittle the recipient
• Opinionated: You bring strong opinions to discussions but are willing to change your mind when presented with new or better information
• Product-minded: You focus on the “why” just as much as the “what” or “how”
• Collaborative : You work within your team and cross-functionally to build consensus and achieve results
• Autonomous : You are self-motivated, able to hold yourself accountable, and can generate high-value work with little direct supervision

Benefits

• Flat, collaborative, transparent culture; get in at the ground floor and be a true business partner
• Opportunities for growth and development within your role and all areas of the organization
• 75th-percentile (competitive!) compensation
• 100% remote work environment
• Quarterly, fun team bonding events
• Unlimited vacation time
• 100% employer-paid Platinum-tier health insurance for employee, 65% for dependents
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Bonuses and equity opportunities
• Budget for home office equipment