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# Full-Stack (Frontend-Focused) Engineer

- **Company:** Inference, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, JSON, Node.Js, OpenID, Next.js, TypeScript, WebSocket, Tailwind, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/fullstack-engineer-frontend-focus-inference-8146819

## About the Role

Must-Have

 * 5+ years building production React applications
 * Deep knowledge of Tailwind CSS & modern CSS architecture
 * Typescript mastery and strong fundamentals in JS/DOM/APIs
 * Experience designing REST/JSON or gRPC backends (Node, Go, or similar)
 * AuthN/AuthZ design (OIDC, JWT)
 * Product sense: you care about UX details & accessibility

Nice-to-Have

 * Experience with Tanstack / Next.js
 * Data-viz libraries (Recharts, Visx, D3)
 * tRPC experience
 * Familiarity with GPU or ML tooling dashboards
 * Comfort debugging perf issues (Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools)
 * Dev-ops chops: CI/CD, Docker, Terraform

You don't need to tick every "nice-to-have" box-curiosity and the ability to learn quickly matter more.

## Description

* Ship end-to-end features - from Figma wireframe to React component to backend API and database migration.
 * Design a component system in React + Tailwind that supports rapid iteration and a cohesive design language.
 * Optimize performance - SSR, code-splitting, hydration, and WebSocket-driven real-time updates that hold up under millions of requests per day.
 * Collaborate across disciplines - work shoulder-to-shoulder with distributed-systems engineers, product designers, and founders to turn complex infrastructure into delightful product.
 * Level-up the team - lead design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and introduce best practices for testing, accessibility, and observability.


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