Staff UI Engineer

Narrated overview: https://www.loom.com/share/cf9b04f9a06e47018e0c8c1cceafce08?t=0

Streak is a CRM built on Gmail. We’re a remote-first team of 35 people across North America. We’re growing and very profitable, and we have customers that love our product. We’re currently in the goldilocks zone of having product market fit with real revenue but also a really flat hierarchy where you can ship fast.

We want to accelerate product delivery (there’s so much to build!) so we’re looking to bring on high agency and experienced frontend engineers to work on high impact product features / frontend infrastructure. We’re building a small, focused, high performing frontend engineering team that works directly with the CEO leading the product. To help build this great team, we offer incredibly competitive compensation (based on Bay Area bands) and some interesting benefits. We want you to do the best work of your career here, so you should expect high autonomy and ownership.

Lastly, we believe the traditional interview process isn’t well correlated with an engineers’ ability to ship product. Instead, our interview process mimics what it’s actually like to work here. It’s highly asynchronous, favors writing and involves building something useful. We think this will give you a really good insight into our team and company and of course lets us assess if you’ll thrive here.

Your skills

Have high agency and urgency → you can independently make progress and can navigate through a large codebase (don’t worry, our team loves helping if you ever get stuck). Having large competitors, our differentiator is our product velocity so your default preference is to urgently ship.

Have top notch async/written skills → remote collaboration is especially important to us so you should have excellent written and live collaboration skills. You’ll excel here if you default to async first communication. We are often writing design docs, summarizing viewpoints before meetings, recording Loom videos of our code or debugging sessions.

Are a frontend specialist → you should have 5+ years of experience with modern frontend tooling like react and typescript. You’ll be a great fit if you’ve shipped user facing features in a modern web app to a significant user base. It doesn’t have to be millions of users, but enough to see all the edge cases.

Put in the effort → we don’t work heroic hours to get stuff done but we do aim for a consistent, 40 hours of focused work a week. That should be more than enough to do great work and push projects over the finish line. The focused bit is usually the difference between  “almost done” and “shipped”.

Design solutions → there are no architects here. Every single pixel and program state is not specified. You should be able to design a solution that works well with our codebase. You should be able to fill in the gaps in product specs and make product decisions when needed.

Are pragmatic → you should be able to balance new features vs refactors vs rewrites vs just getting something working. You also can recognize when it’s worth investing in new things. You look at AI as a tool to magnify our effort, not a competitor.

Level up our team → you’re willing to share your expertise with other engineers by reviewing PRs, writing great documentation and demo’ing your work in progress. You’re generally an optimist and you enjoy working with others collaboratively.

What you’ll work on

Product engineers at Streak build user facing features across the full stack with a focus on frontend technologies. We work on two products, Streak and our open source InboxSDK (developer tool to build apps inside of Gmail, which of course we ourselves use).

You will own projects from start to finish and be responsible for shipping high quality software that users love. Here are some examples of interesting recent and upcoming technical challenges:

High performance spreadsheets → our primary UI is a collaborative realtime spreadsheet. It needs to be highly perfo