Engineering - Frontend Engineer
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
Company: Read AI
Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid)
About Us:
Read AI is an innovative venture-backed startup working at the forefront of consumer AI technology. We are the fastest growing meeting note-taker in history, significantly outpacing our industry peers. Our product summarizes, augments, and aggregates meeting, chat, and email data to improve efficiency with AI-generated summaries, transcripts, playback, and highlights.
With over a million users every month, our high bar on security, privacy, and performance has made us the only company that is both a Zoom Essential App and Google Add-On. Our customers include Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, NGOs, financial services, and healthcare organizations.
Join Read and help us transform the future of communication and productivity.
The Role:
As a Frontend Software Engineer at Read AI, your contributions will directly shape how users interact with our platform. This role is crucial to enhancing Read's user experience through high-impact features and improvements. Using Typescript and React, you will work on our reporting application, billing system, our native note-taking apps (Zoom, Meet, and Teams), and Read’s browser extensions.
As a Frontend Engineer at Read, you'll influence both the development of new features and the direction of our product roadmap.
Responsibilities:
- Implement new features from product specifications and visual designs handed-off via Figma.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable and maintainable APIs
- Design and build responsive and accessible user interfaces that work seamlessly across different devices and browsers.
- Continuously improve upon and advocate for best practices in frontend development, including code quality, testing, and performance optimization.
- Provide critical and insightful feedback to the product team during the development processes.
- Take ownership of and drive specific product work-streams forward, making a significant impact on the future of Read.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering (preferred) and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Proven experience in frontend development, with proficiency in Typescript and React.
- Strong understanding of modern web development practices and responsive design.
- Experience with state management libraries such as Redux or Zustand.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a pragmatic and customer-focused approach.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with backend technologies such as Python, FastAPI, and Postgres.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Terraform.
- Prior experience in a startup or fast-growing environment.
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Vitest, or Cypress
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker.
Join us at Read AI and be part of a talented team that is shaping the future of knowledge management. Apply now, and help us revolutionize how organizations consume and share information.
We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in everyone on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where opportunities are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion for people from all walks of life is key to our success as a company.