Staff Frontend Engineer
Foxglove
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £140,000 - £165,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptNode.jsPythonReactSQLTypeScript
About the role
- Customer Collaboration – Embed deeply with customer teams to understand business goals, domain constraints, and technical requirements.
- Design & Development – Architect and build end-to-end solutions with an experiment-driven, iterative approach (TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL).
- Scoping & Planning – Draft clear scopes of work, timelines, and success metrics for proofs-of-concept through production roll-outs.
- Hands-On Delivery – Code side-by-side with customer engineers, deploying on their cloud or on-prem environments to ensure successful adoption.
- Cross-Functional Alignment – Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success on the same accounts to guarantee seamless experiences and measurable outcomes.
- Product Feedback Loop – Relay frontline insights to Research, Product, and Engineering; your learnings shape our roadmap.
- Internal Enablement – Document best practices, contribute to internal libraries, and mentor future FDEs so the function scales efficiently.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in JavaScript/TypeScript development.
- 3+ years of professional experience in Robotics or Autonomous systems
- Experience in customer-facing engineering roles, ideally with robotics or autonomy exposure.
- Proven history of rapid prototyping and iterative delivery with external stakeholders.
- Front-end strength in React/TypeScript and back-end experience in Node.js or Python; familiarity with C++ or ROS is a plus.
- Solid grasp of network and cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and database-backed REST APIs.
- Comfortable owning problems end-to-end, learning what’s missing, and communicating technical details to any audience.
- Willingness to travel extensively and work on-site with customers when required.
- Bonus points:
- Experience with multiple database systems
- Experience designing SDKs, integration libraries, or internal tooling that reduced services cycle time.
- Previous experience in the Autonomous Vehicle Industry
Benefits
- Work remotely when not onsite at customers
- £300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace
- All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year
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Hard skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsPythonROSSQLnetwork architecturecloud architectureREST APIs
Soft skills
customer collaborationproblem ownershipcommunicationmentoringcross-functional alignmentiterative deliveryrapid prototypingdocumentationcustomer-facinginternal enablement