Sr. Front-End Engineer

Standard Template Labs is an AI-native, seed stage startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. Backed by leading investors, we're leveraging AI, graph-based architecture, and exceptional design to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their technology ecosystems.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer (AI-First) to join our small but growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll own and shape the user-facing product end to end: designing and building polished, high-performance interfaces, setting front-end technical direction, and leveraging AI-driven tools to accelerate development. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to turn complex enterprise workflows into intuitive, scalable front-end experiences.

This is a hands-on senior role with real ownership - ideal for someone who enjoys building, mentoring through example, and raising the bar for front-end quality across the product.

What You’ll Do

- Own the front-end architecture for core product surfaces, making thoughtful decisions around state management, data fetching, performance, and scalability.

- Build responsive, accessible, and high-performance UIs using modern front-end technologies (e.g. React, Next.js, TypeScript).

- Design, develop, and evolve a shared component library / design system, ensuring consistency, usability, and maintainability as the product grows.

- Collaborate closely with backend engineers to define API contracts (REST / SSE / GraphQL) and ensure smooth, efficient data flow between frontend and backend.

- Build AI-first, realtime user experiences, including streaming and interactive components that respond dynamically to backend and model outputs.

- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (code generation, refactoring, testing, linting, review) as a core part of your workflow to increase velocity while maintaining high code quality.

- Partner deeply with Product and Design to trans...