Senior Frontend Engineer, Conversational & Gen UI

Farther

Senior Frontend Engineer building conversational AI interfaces for Farther’s wealth management platform. Developing agent-to-UI frameworks, renderers, and developer APIs.

Posted 9/8/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expert-level Frontend Engineering skills with a focus on building production web applications and designing developer-facing APIs. Proficient in managing distributed systems and ensuring high-quality code through mentorship and rigorous testing practices.

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Expert-Level Frontend EngineeringProduction Experience with LLMsReact and TypeScript ProficiencyEnd-to-End OwnershipStrong Knowledge-Sharing Habits

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Hard Skills

Frontend EngineeringProduction Web ApplicationsStrict TypingModular Frontend PatternsDistributed Systems FundamentalsDeveloper-Facing APIsCode ReviewTesting PracticesComposition Over ConfigurationContext-Switching

Soft Skills

Genuine Product InstinctsAbility to Raise AmbiguityStrong CommunicationMentorship

Tools & Technologies

ReactTypeScriptPythonTanStack QueryReact-Hook-FormZodTailwindCSSTesting LibraryGitHub Actions CI

Industry Keywords

LLMsAgentic SystemsTool CallingStreaming ResponsesConversational Interfaces

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsPythonReactSwitchingTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deliver the assistant experience from prototype to production
Build the framework enabling Farther surfaces to declare what the agent can do and see
Design a renderer that turns model output into a validated, submittable interface
Make the renderer extensible so new input types are additive rather than requiring refactors
Negotiate and version the wire contract with the agent backend team
Enforce the wire contract with tests
Design and document developer-facing APIs
Mentor engineers and set the quality bar in code review

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years building production web applications, including time somewhere the frontend was the product
Expert-level frontend engineering; strict typing is how you already work
Production experience with LLMs, including agentic systems, tool calling, streaming responses, and conversational interfaces
Composition over configuration; modular, scalable frontend patterns
Distributed systems fundamentals: timeouts, retries, idempotency, and failure isolation
Genuine product instincts and ability to raise ambiguity as a decision
Fluent in an AI-assisted development loop using Claude Code, Git-based PRs, and automated review
End-to-end ownership and a track record of meeting deadlines
Strong knowledge-sharing and documentation habits
Comfortable context-switching across multiple concurrent workstreams
Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, TanStack Query, react-hook-form, Zod, Tailwind, CSS, Testing Library, ESLint, Prettier, and GitHub Actions CI

Benefits

Comp & perks

Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
Competitive comp package that rewards impact
Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
Unlimited PTO
An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together
Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-scaling startup
Chart your own growth path as we expand