Senior Frontend Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Senior frontend engineer who will own core product surfaces of Jinba's workflow automation platform. You'll build the interfaces where enterprise users create, visualize, and manage complex automations through natural language. This role is for someone who thrives on hard UI problems: real-time collaboration, canvas-based editors, and making AI feel predictable and trustworthy. RESPONSIBILITIES * Build and own major product surfaces: workflow editor, execution monitoring, integration configuration * Architect frontend systems that scale with product complexity and team growth * Implement complex interactions: drag-and-drop, canvas manipulation, real-time updates * Collaborate with design to ship polished, production-ready interfaces * Improve developer experience: component patterns, testing strategies, build performance * Mentor engineers and establish frontend best practices as the team grows REQUIREMENTS TECHNICAL SKILLS * 5+ years of frontend engineering experience * Expert-level React and TypeScript * Deep understanding of state management patterns and when to apply them * Experience with complex UI: canvas editors, rich text, drag-and-drop, or similar * Strong CSS fundamentals; comfortable with Tailwind and modern styling approaches SYSTEMS THINKING * Ability to architect frontend codebases that remain maintainable as they grow * Experience with performance optimization: bundle size, rendering, perceived latency * Understanding of accessibility standards and how to implement them practically * Familiarity with testing strategies for complex interactive UIs PRODUCT SENSE * Experience building developer tools, no-code platforms, or workflow products * Ability to make technical decisions that improve user experience, not just code quality * Comfort working directly with customers to understand pain points STRONG SIGNALS * Frontend or full-stack roles at companies like Figma, Linear, Notion, Retool, Vercel, or similar * Experience building canvas-based or node-graph editors * Contributed to or maintained open-source component libraries * Background at early-stage startups where you owned entire product surfaces * Experience with real-time collaboration features (CRDTs, operational transforms, or WebSocket-heavy UIs) MINDSET * Ownership-oriented: you want to own outcomes, not just ship tickets * Quality bar: you care about polish, edge cases, and the details users notice * Early-stage ready: comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration ABOUT JINBA We help large enterprises build automated workflows using plain English. Unlike traditional no-code tools that bolt a chat agent onto their interface, Jinba is built as a native vibe coding platform from the ground up. YC W26. International team across SF and Tokyo. Growing fast with major enterprise contracts.

What do we do? Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 6000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. The Role: The Experience Group at Paddle is made up of several closely connected teams. Two of those, Dashboard and Developer Experience (DX), are hiring for this role. Dashboard transforms our seller-facing products into rich, seamless experiences that help thousands of customers run and grow their business on Paddle, and shapes our design system to drive consistency and adoption across multiple products. Developer Experience makes Paddle a world-class platform to integrate with, owning our docs platform at developer.paddle.com, our SDKs and public libraries, and the tooling that makes integrating with Paddle simple and enjoyable. As a Senior Frontend Engineer in the Experience Group, you'll lead frontend craft across the products that thousands of organisations rely on, from small businesses and independent developers to the next generation of AI-native builders, whether that's the seller dashboard, our design system, or the developer-facing surfaces sellers and their engineers hit every day. TypeScript, React, and our design system are core to the work, alongside React Router 7 on the dashboard side and Astro on the docs side. You'll partner with product managers, designers, and technical writers, using our design system as a bridge between design intent and engineering reality, and you'll ensure that our UI surfaces remain consistent, accessible, and high-fidelity at scale. You'll work with experts to achieve success, develop your own skills, and grow your career. What you'll do: * Lead and help shape frontend work across the Experience Group's products, from the seller-facing dashboard, to our docs platform (built on Astro) and DX initiatives like our app marketplace, transforming them into rich, seamless experiences that help our sellers grow and our developers integrate with ease. * Own the technical direction and lifecycle of products and tooling in your remit, including public libraries like Paddle.js and our Node SDK, from technical planning through rollout and long-term maintenance. * Shape and enhance our design system in collaboration with product designers, driving adoption across multiple products as both a consumer and a contributor. * Contribute high-quality TypeScript and React code in a large codebase used by several teams, optimising for collaboration, developer experience, and throughput. * Champion frontend excellence and ways of working across the frontend guild. * Level up the team's engineering practices through mentoring other engineers, leading the technical planning of team initiatives, and driving improvements to quality with an eye for edge cases. * Collaborate on features end-to-end with product managers, designers, technical writers, and other engineers, from initial concept and planning right through to rollout, with excellent written and verbal communication. * Practise DevOps: you're responsible for getting your code to production, supporting and monitoring its performance. We'd love to hear from you if you have: * Deep proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS, with a track record of leading medium-to-large frontend initiatives end-to-end at scale. * Hands-on experience with design systems as both a consumer and a contributor, ideally driving adoption across multiple products. * A deep interest in excellent user experiences and how they can be achieved through technical craftsmanship. * Experience mentoring other engineers, with strong written and verbal communication that works well with non-technical colleagues. * A proactive attitude towards finding ways to improve the code and team processes, and a strong understanding of the development process from design through to deployment and maintenance. * A product mindset and pride in what you build: you think about the people using what you ship, whether sellers or developers, with an eye for detail and edge cases. * An active curiosity about AI and how it's reshaping software development, with hands-on use already part of your day-to-day. Everyone is welcome at Paddle At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together. Our Values * Paddle Together - “None of us, is as smart as all of us” * Paddle Simply - “Simple can be harder than complex: you have to get your thinking clean to make it simple” * Paddle for others - “We can realise our wildest dreams, so long as we help enough other people to realise theirs” Why you’ll love working at Paddle We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture. We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.