What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer (Front-End Focused) position at Nayya?
About Nayya
Founded in 2019, Nayya is on a mission to connect people's most important information, so they can thrive in their health and wealth. Powered by AI and advanced analytics, Nayya's platform transforms complex benefits experiences into intuitive, seamless, and ongoing interactions—meeting people meeting people's real world needs. As a trusted platform and partner to leading employers, benefits solutions, and HR tech providers, Nayya unlocks long-term value through helping employees live more resilient lives. Backed by strategic investors like ICONIQ, Felicis Ventures, SemperVirens, Workday Ventures, MetLife Nextgen Ventures, and ADP Ventures, Nayya is ushering in the future of health and wealth for all.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Software Engineer at Nayya, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the user interfaces that power Nayya's platform. This role is crucial for ensuring the stability, scalability, and performance of our frontend applications. As a member of the engineering team, you'll collaborate closely with product and design teams to implement new features, optimize performance, and enhance user experience. While this role is primarily frontend-focused, all engineers at Nayya are expected to have a strong understanding of full-stack development and be willing to work across the stack as needed.
We are looking for an expert who thrives in an environment that values impatience, excellence, resilience, and courage.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build new features for our core products using React and Typescript.
- Develop tooling and workflows to ensure the maintainability of our frontend applications.
- Collaborate closely with product and design teams to continuously innovate on our products.
- Build frontend applications that scale with our rapidly growing user base.
- Maintain and monitor application performance, accessibility, and usability.
- Improve existing applications' functionality, speed, and reliability.
- Be a part of the decision-making process as it relates to scaling the company and our products.
- Provide technical expertise to promote business development efforts.
What You'll Bring:
- 5 years of professional software development experience, with a focus on frontend development.
- Strong proficiency with Typescript, React, and modern frontend frameworks.
- Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and browser performance optimizations.
- Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Zustand, or similar).
- Familiarity with WebSockets and real-time data handling is a plus.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of software development best practices, including version control (Git), testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to work collaboratively in an agile development environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with TypeScript.
- Knowledge of server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG) in React.
- Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and design systems.
- Previous experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools.
- Experience with WebSockets and real-time data handling.
The salary range for New York based candidates for this role is $160,000-$200,000. We use a location factor to adjust this range for candidates that are located outside of geographic region of our New York office. Placement within the salary band is determined based on experience.
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Nayya is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics
Salary : $134,000 - $176,700
