Senior Front-End Engineer: React, TypeScript, Dashboards & Design Systems | Chicago Remote | Up to $205K + Equity — Chicago, IL

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." – Steve Jobs

You've built dashboards, data visualisations and real-time screens that technical users rely on every day. You've built a design system from scratch rather than just consuming one. And you've got a portfolio of shipped UI to prove it. If that's you, this is a first-front-end-hire role where you decide how the product looks and works.

The company

An early-stage, well-funded AI start-up with a small, senior team and a growing base of enterprise customers. Fully remote across the Q5G. You'd work directly with the CEO.

The role

You'll be the first front-end engineer. There is no front-end codebase and no design system yet, so you'll own both from day one and set the standard everyone else builds to.

What you'll build:

• AI-generated answers that stream in and link back to their exact source

• Review and approval queues for AI outputs

• Document upload and correction workflows

• Interactive data and relationship-graph exploration views

• Dashboards tracking model and system performance

• The component library and design system every engineer and customer-facing app will run on

This is product UI for technical users. Think analytics tool, not consumer app. Full-stack engineers whose strength is front-end are welcome.

What you must have

• Shipped data-heavy product UI: dashboards, data or graph visualisations, real-time or streaming data views

• Built and owned a design system or component library yourself (using one doesn't count)

• A portfolio or live examples of UI you've shipped, ready to share with your application

• 3+ years of front-end engineering on B2B or data-heavy web apps (senior profiles preferred)

• Production React and TypeScript

Nice to have

• Early front-end hire at a start-up, building product UI from nothing

• Full-stack comfort, happy to write an API endpoint when it's needed

• Experience with Figma MCP or similar AI design-to-code tooling

Probably not the right fit if

• Your experience is mainly marketing sites, landing pages or e-commerce checkout

• You're a backend-leaning full-stack engineer with limited front-end ownership

Compensation and logistics

• Base $150K–$205K, depending on experience

• Competitive equity, weighted for an early hire

• Fully remote within the Q5G

• Full-time

• US citizens and Green Card holders only. No visa sponsorship is available for this role

Interview process

Live, conversational technical interviews. No take-home test, no live coding. Four rounds, roughly two and a half hours in total.

How to apply

Apply with your resume and a link to your portfolio or live work. Applications without examples of shipped UI won't progress, so include the link. You can also email Keiran Hathorn directly at •••••••• with your resume, portfolio link and short answers to the three custom questions.

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