Herald

Herald

Frontend Engineer - AI Products

New York City

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$200kDetected 268 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsTailwind CSSFlaskPostgreSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDDevOpsExcelRecruitingTest AutomationCollaboration

About the role

  • This role requires a strong foundation in modern frontend development, architectural decision-making, and hands-on coding expertise to establish scalable, maintainable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Project Ownership: Lead the development of a new web application from scratch, setting up the architecture, tooling, and best practices.
  • Architecture & Design: Define and implement frontend architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Feature Development: Build robust, user-friendly, and responsive interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern libraries.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver seamless user experiences.
  • Continuous Improvement: Optimize application performance, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and stay current with industry trends.
  • Define and implement frontend architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Build robust, user-friendly, and responsive interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern libraries.
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver seamless user experiences.
  • One more note: We want to build an incredible team.
  • We're just getting started and building our culture with purpose every day.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of professional experience in frontend development with strong expertise in React.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and/or modern React (Hooks, Context, etc.).
  • Familiarity with styling libraries and UI frameworks such as TailwindCSS, Material UI, Styled Components, or Storybook for component-driven development.
  • Experience building production web applications and contributing to project setup or new feature development.
  • Interface with our Python Flask backend to integrate APIs, debug data flows, and extend functionality as needed.
  • Write backend logic and make Postgres queries to support frontend features.
  • Excitement to contribute in a fast-paced startup environment and help take products from 0→1.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Next.js or other SSR frameworks.
  • Background in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and DevOps practices.
  • Knowledge of micro-frontend architectures and integration strategies.
  • Full compensation packages are determined based on candidate experience.
  • This range is depicting base pay only.
  • Any variable compensation will be discussed throughout the hiring process.
  • Additional information
  • As a result, we make a point of being open to surprising candidates who are the right person even though their experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description.

Skills

  • Our job descriptions are gestures, not strict criteria.
  • Life at Herald
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Compensation

  • Full compensation packages are determined based on candidate experience.

Benefits

  • Please reach out if you would benefit from any assistance throughout the application or have suggestions about how we can make our process more accessible and inclusive to all people.

Company info

  • Herald is transforming how commercial insurance gets sold. We combine modern API infrastructure with industry-specific AI that can read emails, extract data, generate quotes, and guide brokers through submission workflows end-to-end. The result: faster placement, cleaner operations, and meaningful revenue growth. The market is huge, the need is obvious, and the product we're building doesn't exist yet. If you want to help shape the operating system for modern insurance, we'd love to work with you.
  • We're a team of insurtech veterans with experience at At-Bay, Kin, and Insurify. We've raised our Series A funding from top-tier VCs ( Lightspeed, Brewer Lane, Afore, Underscore ) along with a panel of insurtech founders ( At-Bay, Marble ), insurance executives ( CRC ), and early employees of other successful API infrastructure companies ( Plaid, Alloy ).
  • The Role
  • We are seeking a highly skilled Frontend Engineer to join our team and take ownership of building our application from the ground up. This role requires a strong foundation in modern frontend development, architectural decision-making, and hands-on coding expertise to establish scalable, maintainable solutions.
  • Herald is transforming how commercial insurance gets sold.
  • We combine modern API infrastructure with industry-specific AI that can read emails, extract data, generate quotes, and guide brokers through submission workflows end-to-end.
  • The result: faster placement, cleaner operations, and meaningful revenue growth.
  • The market is huge, the need is obvious, and the product we're building doesn't exist yet.
  • If you want to help shape the operating system for modern insurance, we'd love to work with you.
  • We're a team of insurtech veterans with experience at At-Bay, Kin, and Insurify.
  • We've raised our Series A funding from top-tier VCs ( Lightspeed, Brewer Lane, Afore, Underscore ) along with a panel of insurtech founders ( At-Bay, Marble ), insurance executives ( CRC ), and early employees of other successful API infrastructure companies ( Plaid, Alloy ).
  • faster placement, cleaner operations, and meaningful revenue growth.
  • We are seeking a highly skilled Frontend Engineer to join our team and take ownership of building our application from the ground up.
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