frontend engineer

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This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco (Presidio) - we work from the office 5 days a week.

You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting.

We require US work authorisation, but are open to O-1 visa sponsorship for truly exceptional candidates.

About Wordware

Wordware is an IDE for building AI agents using natural language.

It looks and feels like Notion, but lets you design, test, and deploy AI systems in real time - without writing code.

Our mission is to bring structure and joy to human–AI collaboration.

We’re building a generational company that empowers the next billion knowledge workers to create with AI - not by writing code, but by expressing intent.

We’re backed by Spark Capital, Felicis, and Y Combinator ($30M seed round - the largest in YC history).

We work hard, move fast, and don’t take ourselves too seriously. It’s intense, but it’s also fun - at Wordware, you’ll do the best work of your life alongside people you genuinely like.

Frontend Engineer

What You’ll Do

You’ll write and ship frontend features end to end — from interaction design, to component logic, to performance optimization.

We’re still a small team, and the product is early — you won’t just be building features; you’ll help shape the trajectory of the company and the future of AI development.

Here are a few examples of the kinds of things you might work on:

Build and refine our multiplayer IDE — the core interface where users write, edit, and debug AI logic in plain English, together, in real time. It should feel fast, intuitive, and familiar — more like writing a doc than configuring a tool.

Design and implement the “GitHub for AI” — a public-facing marketplace for discovering, remixing, and sharing AI flows and agents.

Create the dashboard UI where users manage their agents — track execution history, view logs, debug in real-time, and make edits on the fly.

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Stack

TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind.

Who You Are

Minimum

You have 3+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping real products.

You’re fluent in TypeScript and React, and have built complex, interactive applications — not just static dashboards or marketing sites.

You’ve worked closely with design and product teams to bring ideas to life and care deeply about the end-user experience.

You can design beautiful, functional mockups in Figma or other relevant tools when needed.

You’re comfortable with ambiguity, unblock yourself, and move fast with tight feedback loops.

You thrive in a fast-paced, high-trust startup environment and enjoy owning entire surfaces.

Bonus (but not required)

You’ve worked on collaborative apps using Y.js, CRDTs, or similar real-time frameworks.

You have experience with Tiptap, ProseMirror, or building rich text editors.

You’ve built or maintained a design system or reusable component library.

You’ve worked with AI tools or are excited to help define how non-technical users build with AI.

The Process

We keep our process simple. Exceptional candidates go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks.

Application

Submit your resume and answer a few short questions. If it looks like a fit, we’ll invite you to send a 1-minute Loom video: tell us who you are and why you want to join Wordware.

15-minute intro call

Quick check to align on location, motivation, and logistics. If it’s a go, we move fast from here.

45-minute technical interview

You’ll build a small full-stack app. We’re looking for fluency, speed, and product sense.

System design interview

A deep dive into how you think and architect systems. We’ll walk through a real Wordware problem together.

Final conversation

Quick vibe check, answer your questions, and scope out the work trial.

Work trial

Paid trial to work on a real project with us — usually a few days to two weeks (flexible to do what works for you). See how we work and whether this feels like the right fit on both sides.