Staff UI Engineer

Role Description

As an early UI Engineer at Galileo, you will play a foundational role in designing, building, and scaling our products for AI reliability.

You will: 

• Develop and Maintain High-Performance Web Applications: Design and implement responsive, scalable, and optimized web applications using Next.js, React, & TypeScript.
• Optimize for Speed and Efficiency: Focus on reducing load times, improving application responsiveness, and enhancing the user experience by employing techniques like code-splitting, lazy loading, and server-side rendering.
• Enhance Code Quality and Maintainability: Write clean, modular, and well-documented code with attention to maintainability and scalability.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with backend developers, UI/UX designers, and product managers to deliver cohesive, user-centered applications.
• Troubleshoot and Debug: Identify and resolve performance issues, memory leaks, and bugs to ensure application stability and efficiency.
• Develop and Maintain CI/CD Pipelines: Set up automated testing, build, and deployment processes to streamline the development workflow and maintain high code quality.
• Implement Testing and Quality Assurance: Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using tools like Jest, Playwright, and React Testing Library to ensure code reliability and functionality.

Minimum Qualifications

• A startup mindset, biasing towards thoughtful action with minimal direction. 
• 8+ years of experience building UI for customer facing products.
• Experience with React and Next JS.
• A very strong background and experience with TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Experience building frontends for data products.
• Worked with React extensively and know the best tools in the ecosystem to manage state, hooks, component libraries, events, and content effectively.
• Experience building clear API-Client interfaces and enjoy working with product, backend, and design team members to build an awesome product.
• Extensive experience with git and GitHub – it’s almost second nature for you.

Preferred Qualifications

• You have deployed frontend applications to AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure (both dynamic and static frontend applications)
• Experience rapidly prototyping with Figma to exchange ideas with backend, design, and product team members

Why Galileo

• Join a seasoned founding team that has previously led product and engineering teams from 0 to $100M+ in revenue and from 0 to 1B+ users globally
• We obsess over our team’s culture driven by inclusivity, empathy and curiosity
• We invest in our team’s development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers – towards that end, we offer: 
• • Unlimited PTO 🌊
  • Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents – 100% pay for 8 weeks 🚼
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan 📈
  • Commuter Benefits 🚖
  • Mental and Physical Wellness 🧘
  • Company Paid Lunches 🌯
  • Headquarters Office in San Francisco 🌉 and a hub in New York 🌇
  • *Build the company with the Founders* 🧑‍💻