Principal Frontend Engineer
frontend architecture
component library
data visualization
react development
performance scaling
team collaboration
Setting technical direction for frontend standards, performance, and scalability.
Turning complex data into simple, elegant visual interfaces.
Collaborating closely with design, backend, and AI teams to shape the product experience.
You'll be joining as the Founding Frontend Engineer, taking full ownership of everything user-facing. You'll work side-by-side with the CTO to define architecture, build from first principles, and bring ideas to life.
Defining reusable component libraries and frontend architecture from scratch.
Building and scaling the entire frontend using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
- Setting technical direction for frontend standards, performance, and scalability.
- Defining reusable component libraries and frontend architecture from scratch.
- Turning complex data into simple, elegant visual interfaces.
- Building and scaling the entire frontend using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
- Collaborating closely with design, backend, and AI teams to shape the product experience.
typescript
react
next.js
node.js
component libraries
startup
Experience building component libraries or design systems used across multiple teams.
A hands-on, problem-solving mindset - you don't wait for direction, you create it.
Some backend understanding (Node.js, APIs, integration).
Senior-level experience in TypeScript / React / Next.js (or similar modern frameworks).
Autonomy, speed, and genuine ownership from day one.
Ideally, some founder or early-stage experience - you've built or owned something before, even if it failed.
It's a complex problem, and they're looking for someone who's wired like a founder - an experienced Frontend Engineer who's built things from scratch, who thrives on autonomy, and who wants to have a direct hand in shaping how a product looks, feels, and performs.
Experience working in a startup or fast-moving SaaS environment.
If you love early-stage building - where decisions matter, ideas move fast, and your work defines what the company becomes - this is that opportunity.
Curiosity about AI and LLM-driven products.
Strong software engineering fundamentals - you can pick up any unfamiliar codebase and reason about how it works.
- Experience working in a startup or fast-moving SaaS environment.
- Experience building component libraries or design systems used across multiple teams.
- A hands-on, problem-solving mindset - you don't wait for direction, you create it.
- Some backend understanding (Node.js, APIs, integration).
- Curiosity about AI and LLM-driven products.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals - you can pick up any unfamiliar codebase and reason about how it works.
- Senior-level experience in TypeScript / React / Next.js (or similar modern frameworks).
- Autonomy, speed, and genuine ownership from day one.
- Ideally, some founder or early-stage experience - you've built or owned something before, even if it failed.
Huge growth potential - future path to leadership
This isn't a role for someone who wants to "pick up tickets" - it's for someone who wants to make big technical calls, influence direction, and leave a mark.
€100,000 - €120,000 + meaningful equity | On-site, Dublin City Centre
You'll be joining a team full of founders - everyone here has built something before.
Salary up to €120k + founding-level equity.
- Huge growth potential - future path to leadership
- You'll be joining a team full of founders - everyone here has built something before.
- Salary up to €120k + founding-level equity.
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