Lead Software Engineer, Frontend/Web App

About Beacon AI

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design React features and architect frontend systems for large-scale, real-time and historical aviation data.
• Integrate, process, and visualize live streams and archived datasets.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Partner with backend engineers, product managers, and UX/UI designers on implementation decisions.
• Maintain reliable frontend systems through automated testing, documentation, and engineering standards.
• Build reusable components and internal libraries.

Qualifications

• 9+ years building and shipping high-performance user-facing web applications.
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, state management, and HTML/CSS.
• Strong asynchronous frontend and live/historical data-stream experience; ownership of complex features from concept through delivery.
• Technical leadership through design, code quality, mentorship, and hiring input; ability to optimize frontend performance.
• Ability to operate autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Bonus qualifications

• Aviation interest; experience with Mapbox or Cesium, live data streaming and playback, video streaming, or real-time media delivery is a bonus.

Work location

• Hybrid role based in San Carlos, California, with at least 3 days per week onsite and remote work available on remaining days.
• All work must be performed in the United States.

Benefits

• Full-time employee benefits include medical premium coverage, three weeks of PTO, 13+ paid company holidays, and a 401(k) plan.
• The employer states that it currently offers no 401(k) match.

Compensation

• Compensation range is $224,000–$260,000 yearly.

Work authorization

• Due to U.S. export control regulations, the employer can hire only U.S. Persons and cannot provide visa sponsorship or transfers.