Fartherfinance

Senior Frontend Engineer, Conversational & Gen UI

Hybrid - New York, NY. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will deliver the assistant experience from prototype to production and build the underlying framework. You will design a renderer for model output and negotiate wire contracts with the agent backend team.

What you will do

  • Deliver the assistant experience from prototype to production
  • Build the framework underneath the assistant
  • Design the renderer that turns a model's output into a validated interface
  • Negotiate and version the wire contract with the agent backend team
  • Treat developer experience as a first-class deliverable
  • Mentor the engineers coming up behind you and set the quality bar in review

Required qualifications

  • 6+ years building production web applications
  • Expert-level frontend engineering with strict typing
  • Production experience with LLMs including agentic systems, tool calling, streaming responses, and conversational interfaces
  • Knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals including timeouts, retries, idempotency, and failure isolation
  • Fluent in an AI-assisted development loop using Claude Code and Git-based PRs
  • End-to-end ownership and a track record of meeting deadlines
  • Strong knowledge-sharing / documentation habit
  • Comfortable context-switching across multiple concurrent workstreams
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • TanStack Query, react-hook-form, Zod

Nice to have

  • Used or extended a framework for agent-to-UI communication
  • Built and versioned a component library other teams depended on
  • AWS fluency including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudWatch
  • Engineering platform or internal tooling experience
  • Turned LLMs on how your own team builds
  • Wealth management, financial services, or analytics products

Benefits

  • Learn and grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
  • Competitive comp package that rewards impact
  • Full health benefits
  • 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
  • Unlimited PTO

About the company

Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology. The founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry.