{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"49a2ac5a9127e8e66c5dc3db","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/49a2ac5a9127e8e66c5dc3db","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/49a2ac5a9127e8e66c5dc3db","title":"Software Engineer, Foundations","description":"Location\n\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nEmployment Type\n\nFull time\n\nLocation Type\n\nHybrid\n\nDepartment\n\nEPD\n\nCompensation\n$178K – $205K • Offers Equity\n\nIndividual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, training, and market conditions. At Front, we take a market-based approach to pay. In addition to cash compensation (base salary, which may include commissions or overtime pay where applicable), Fronteers are eligible to receive equity in the company. This resource will provide additional information on our location zone designations. If you have questions, please contact a member of our recruiting team for additional information.\n\nFront is the customer operations platform built for B2B complexity, keeping every team, tool, and customer conversation in sync so companies can scale without losing connection. Others handle simple interactions. Front handles the coordination and context behind complex B2B customer relationships. Over 9,000 companies, including Uber Freight, Navan, and Stripe, rely on Front because it's the only one that can run the operational layer that makes customer-facing work actually succeed.\n\nBacked by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Ventures, Front has raised $204M from leading venture capital firms and independent investors including top executives at Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, Zoom, and PagerDuty. Front has received numerous Great Place to Work accolades, including Built In's 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in SF 2025, Top Places to Work by USA Today 2025, Y Combinator's list of Top Companies in 2023, #4 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ ,Inc. Magazine's 2022 Best Workplaces list, and Forbes Best Startup Employers 2022 List.\n\nFront is a customer operations platform that helps teams work better together. At the core of everything we build is the Foundations team — the engineers who make it possible for the rest of engineering to move fast and build with confidence. This team owns the frameworks, libraries, and internal systems that power Front's backend, from our event-driven task queue to our CI/CD infrastructure and database ORM.\n\nAs a Software Engineer on the Foundations team, you'll work at the intersection of platform engineering and developer experience. You won't be building features end users click on — you'll be building the systems that make those features possible. If you're energized by designing for scale, eliminating friction across engineering teams, and setting the architectural patterns that an entire company relies on, this role is for you.\n\nWhat will you be doing?\n\nBuilding and maintaining shared backend frameworks, libraries, and internal tooling used by engineering teams across Front\n\nDesigning and implementing systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance — including our task queue, batch job framework, database ORM, and real-time event infrastructure\n\nOwning and evolving our CI/CD systems, ensuring fast, reliable, and safe delivery pipelines\n\nCollaborating closely with other engineering teams to understand their pain points, establish shared patterns, and drive adoption of new frameworks\n\nInfluencing Front's backend architecture and the engineering-wide standards that flow from it\n\nNavigating ambiguity, defining the right problems to solve, and delivering solutions of significant complexity\n\nWhat skills and experience do you need?\n\nWe are looking for backend JavaScript/TypeScript engineers — this role is not focused on frontend development.\n\nExperience building frameworks, libraries, and/or developer-facing internal tools\n\nExperience building distributed systems with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance\n\nExceptional software design fundamentals and a track record of delivering high-complexity projects\n\nClear, structured thinking and strong communication skills — your stakeholders are other engineers, so the ability to explain technical tradeoffs matters\n\nComfort navigating ambiguity: you can drive clarity and execute without a fully-defined roadmap\n\nAbility to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, low-ego, and high-growth environment\n\nBonus points:\n\nDeep TypeScript performance optimization experience\n\nPrior work on platform or enablement teams at a product-led company\n\nWhy is this role special?\n\nYou'll get exposure to a wide range of production systems — our task queue (event-driven architecture), database ORM, real-time events, CI/CD pipelines, and batch job framework\n\nYou'll heavily influence Front's backend architecture and the patterns used by the entire engineering org\n\nYour primary stakeholders are other engineering teams — you're building for builders\n\nYour work has compounding impact: improvements you make ripple across every team shipping customer-facing features\n\nFront provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. 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