Staff Frontend Engineer

The role

The Staff Frontend Engineer will shape the technical direction, architecture, and long-term evolution of customer-facing and internal operations experiences. You will lead the design of foundational frontend systems and drive large, cross-cutting initiatives across multiple product areas.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and evolution of frontend systems, patterns, and best practices.
• Drive large, cross-cutting frontend initiatives spanning multiple product areas and teams.
• Translate complex compensation and operational workflows into scalable UI systems.
• Define and standardize reusable frontend and data visualization patterns.
• Partner with product and design to shape problem spaces into scalable solutions.
• Improve frontend performance, reliability, accessibility, testing strategy, and developer experience.
• Mentor and guide engineers across the team.
• Influence technical strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization decisions.
• Identify and address systemic frontend challenges like state management and data handling.
• Bring product thinking and customer empathy to complex problem spaces.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience building and scaling production web applications with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Proven experience designing frontend architecture and systems for complex, data-heavy, configurable applications.
• Experience leading large frontend initiatives or platform-level efforts across teams.
• Strong expertise in component design, state management, performance optimization, and testing at scale.
• Experience building dashboards, BI tools, reporting, analytics, or data visualization platforms.
• Excellent judgment around UX, accessibility, information hierarchy, and visualization patterns.
• Strong product instincts and the ability to influence product direction through technical insight.
• Experience working with complex workflows, automation systems, APIs, or policy-driven platforms.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align stakeholders and drive decisions across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience working on enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
• Experience in compensation, finance, workflow automation, analytics, or operational tooling.
• Experience building or leading design systems, frontend platforms, or shared component libraries.
• Familiarity with backend systems (Python/Django, Java/Springboot, APIs, Postgres).
• Experience designing systems that support both internal operations teams and external customers.
• Experience influencing or defining engineering strategy at the team or org level.

Benefits

• Employee stock ownership plan
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave program
• $750 yearly training stipend

About the company

Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. They handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders.