Software Engineer, Frontend

Overview

At Fern, our mission is simple: make the lives of developers easier. Starting with an API spec, Fern enables engineering teams to automatically generate and maintain their SDKs and docs.

This role is ideal for ambitious engineers with entrepreneurial goals. Many of us are former or future founders, and this is an opportunity to scale a company from $1M to $10M ARR while partnering with fast-growing tech companies shaping the future of software. We value in-person collaboration and work out of our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

What you’ll do

• Build user-facing features such as a WYSIWYG editor to replace Markdown files with an intuitive in-browser app or a changelog to track developer documentation changes over time. You’ll oversee the architecture, design, deployment, and customer adoption of these features.

• Manage our frontend infrastructure by leading the implementation of Storybook, enhancing our CI/CD pipeline, optimizing web application performance, and implementing application monitoring to ensure robust and reliable operations.

• Streamline the developer experience for our monorepo by sharing and implementing your vision of an ideal internal developer experience. You will reduce build times, accelerate deploy times, and increase time-to-ship for our customers!

• Be a power-user of Vercel. We host a multi-tenant Next.js app that powers hundreds of documentation websites. Check us out on Vercel's blog . We're enterprise customers of Vercel and have an active Slack channel with their team. You'll be an owner of the frontend, which is open source !

• Earn trust with customers. Work with developers from startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises. Collaborate to understand their needs and define product requirements.

What you'll bring

• 3+ years of professional frontend development experience

• A high ownership and execution mindset - our team members are able to identify problems, execute, and deliver results with a clear sense of conviction and agency. You have a strong perspective on how and why something needs to be built a certain way.

• A customer-first mindset, with enthusiasm for engaging with users to ensure we build polished, user-centric products

• ( Bonus ) You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company

• (Bonus) Experience working with the OpenAPI specification, Conjure (Palantir), or Smithy (AWS)

Our tech stack

• Frontend: Next.js, Vercel, React, Typescript

• Backend: Typescript, Postgres DB, Prisma ORM, Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python), AWS

• Other tools: Claude, Bedrock (LLM), Fern (API), Algolia, turbopuffer (Search)

What we offer

• Kind teammates who work hard

• First-hand experience building an early-stage startup

• Living proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office

• Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the office

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Unlimited vacation

• Domestic and international team offsites

About the interview

1. Phone screen with a founder

2. Three interviews: one coding, one decomp, one behavioral

3. Onsite with our team