Staff Engineer - UI

About the Company

Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve frontend architecture patterns and shared capabilities used across multiple product teams
• Drive adoption of scalable patterns for component architecture, state management, and application structure
• Partner with platform and product teams to improve consistency across the frontend ecosystem
• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and decision frameworks for frontend development
• Define and drive standards for performance, accessibility, and user experience
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate frontend engineering standards across teams
• Lead cross-team efforts to address technical debt and improve system health

Requirements

• 8-12 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in frontend development
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Extensive experience with React in large-scale applications
• Strong expertise in frontend architecture, design systems, and scalable UI development
• Proven experience building and evolving shared component libraries or frontend platforms
• Deep understanding of browser internals, rendering, and performance optimization
• Experience with modern frontend tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments
• Experience working on large-scale SaaS platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or contributing to design systems at scale
• Exposure to micro-frontend architectures or modular frontend systems
• Familiarity with security considerations in frontend applications
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools
• Background in improving developer experience and platform engineering