Job Title: Software Engineer

Company Name: Front

Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/frontcareers/6f8123bc-8c6c-479a-9a6d-0935f94b42ca?utm_source=Otta

Job Description: As a Software Engineer on the Foundations team, you'll work at the intersection of platform engineering and developer experience. You won't be building features end users click on — you'll be building the systems that make those features possible. If you're energized by designing for scale, eliminating friction across engineering teams, and setting the architectural patterns that an entire company relies on, this role is for you.

What will you be doing?

Building and maintaining shared backend frameworks, libraries, and internal tooling used by engineering teams across Front

Designing and implementing systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance — including our task queue, batch job framework, database ORM, and real-time event infrastructure

Owning and evolving our CI/CD systems, ensuring fast, reliable, and safe delivery pipelines

Designing and implementing tooling for automated infrastructure provisioning

Collaborating closely with other engineering teams to understand their pain points, establish shared patterns, and drive adoption of new frameworks

Influencing Front's backend architecture and the engineering-wide standards that flow from it

Navigating ambiguity, defining the right problems to solve, and delivering solutions of significant complexity

What skills and experience do you need?

We are looking for backend JavaScript/TypeScript engineers — this role is not focused on frontend development.

Experience building frameworks, libraries, or developer-facing internal tools

Experience building distributed systems with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance

Exceptional software design fundamentals and a track record of delivering high-complexity projects

Clear, structured thinking and strong communication skills — your stakeholders are other engineers, so the ability to explain technical tradeoffs matters

Comfort navigating ambiguity: you can drive clarity and execute without a fully-defined roadmap

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, low-ego, and high-growth environment

Bonus points for:

Experience in developer tooling or infrastructure platforms

Deep TypeScript performance optimization experience

Prior work on platform or enablement teams at a product-led company