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Salary: USD 307,000 - 352,000 / annual
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower financial security at scale. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, the company has built a suite of products helping millions build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
You will join as a Staff Frontend Engineer responsible for raising the technical bar across Kikoff's company-wide web product surfaces, including Kikoff, Grant, and future products. This role goes beyond shipping features—you'll own the health, performance, and architecture of frontend systems serving millions of users daily.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own technical strategy and architecture of company-wide web frontend, including component systems, state management, rendering strategy, routing, and build/deploy pipelines
- Drive performance tuning for high-traffic surfaces: instrumentation, performance budgets, profiling, and optimization of Core Web Vitals, load times, and runtime responsiveness
- Lead frontend infrastructure work (tooling, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, testing, developer experience) to enable all engineers to ship high-quality, performant UI by default
- Build and evolve shared UI components and libraries; set frontend standards and code review practices across the organization
- Lead complex, cross-team projects that measurably improve reliability, responsiveness, and polish
- Mentor engineers across the team and raise technical bar
You'll work hand-in-hand with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to ensure what ships is fast, reliable, and moves the needle measurably.
Requirements: 8+ years of industry experience leading large consumer-facing web applications across multiple teams. Proven track record building and operating consumer websites at scale (hundreds of thousands to millions of users) where performance and reliability directly impact business. Deep hands-on experience with frontend performance tuning, profiling, instrumentation, bundle optimization, rendering performance, caching/CDN strategy, and performance budgets. Experience owning frontend infrastructure including build systems, design systems, observability, testing frameworks, and developer tooling. Deep production experience with React. Demonstrated record of driving measurable improvements in quality and performance. Ability to influence technical direction and gain alignment across teams without direct authority. Strong data analysis skills and desire to form strong professional bonds with startup-forward coworkers.
