Staff Frontend Engineer

The role

You will lead complex frontend projects and shape the user experience of a voice AI platform. You will build tools to help customers create, deploy, monitor, and improve AI voice agents.

What you will do

• Lead frontend projects from concept to production, owning architecture, implementation, and delivery.
• Build responsive, reliable interfaces using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Partner with product and design to simplify complex workflows across agent configuration, dashboards, and analytics.
• Shape frontend architecture, reusable components, and patterns that help the team ship faster.
• Improve application performance, accessibility, and reliability as customer usage grows.
• Raise code quality through thoughtful reviews, testing, mentoring, and hands-on technical leadership.
• Work with backend engineers to design APIs and data flows that support a smooth user experience.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in frontend development.
• Operated at Staff level or equivalent scope, leading substantial projects and influencing technical direction.
• Strong experience with React and TypeScript, browser fundamentals, and modern frontend architecture.
• Shipped complex web applications and can explain the technical and product tradeoffs behind decisions.
• Care about interaction details, usability, accessibility, and performance.
• Comfortable taking an ambiguous problem, defining an approach, and driving it through delivery.
• Enjoy writing code, mentoring engineers, and working closely with product and design.

Nice to have

• Experience building enterprise SaaS
• Experience building developer tools
• Experience building real-time interfaces
• Experience building data visualizations
• Experience building AI products

Benefits

• 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• $70/day DoorDash credit for unlimited breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
• $200/month wellness reimbursement (gym, fitness classes, etc.)
• $300/month commuter reimbursement (gas, Caltrain, etc.)
• $75/month phone bill reimbursement
• $50/month internet reimbursement

Before you apply

• Retell AI is open to sponsoring work authorization for qualified candidates, including H-1B, TN, L-1, E-3, F-1 (OPT/CPT).

About the company

Retell AI uses first-principles thinking to reimagine the call center with cutting-edge voice AI. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Alt Capital, and other leading investors.