What are the responsibilities and job description for the TypeScript Frontend Engineer position at Silktide?
Want to build the future faster than most people think reasonable? We need engineers to help us transform how people interact with the web.
Silktide is a fast‑growing, profitable, self‑funded SaaS platform with 4.8★ customer love and a 4.9★ team score. Now we’re redesigning every pixel of our product around modern AI - and we want you steering the UI.
What You’ll Build
Silktide is a fast‑growing, profitable, self‑funded SaaS platform with 4.8★ customer love and a 4.9★ team score. Now we’re redesigning every pixel of our product around modern AI - and we want you steering the UI.
What You’ll Build
- Lightning‑fast dashboards that visualize insights in beautiful ways
- Component libraries (React / Storybook) that make accessibility the default, not an afterthought
- Browser extensions that helps customers understand and fix issues visually
- Core stack: React / TypeScript, tRPC, Zod
- AI tooling: Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI & OSS LLMs, MCP
- Culture: ship often; own the outcome; debate ideas, not egos
- Have 3 years building production React apps (SPA or SSR)
- Sweat bundle size, Web Vitals and a11y as much as features
- Enjoy typed end‑to‑end APIs (tRPC, GraphQL or similar)
- Like small teams, fast decisions and deleting code as much as writing it
- Speak up when something’s wrong and jump in to fix it
- Bonus points for design‑systems experience, animation chops (Framer), or AI side‑projects.
- Need a spec before touching the keyboard
- Avoid honest feedback - in every direction
- Prefer 10× planning to 1× shipping
- Hybrid in downtown Austin - 3 days a week at our dog‑friendly office in the historic Littlefield Building, 106 E 6th St (6th & Congress) with 24/7 parking
- Walk‑out access to the city’s best tacos, coffee, live music and Lady Bird Lake trails
- Top-spec MacBook Pro (M4 or better)
- Private Health / Dental / Vision monthly wellness allowance
- 401(k) with company match
- 20 days PTO US holidays (vacation grows with tenure)
- Flexible hours, casual dress, weekly team lunches, monthly outings
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Salary : $130,000 - $150,000