Lead/Staff Frontend Engineer

🏢 About Noon

Noon is building an AI-first product design platform for modern product teams. The company is backed by investors and operators from OpenAI, Google, Stripe, Notion, and Dropbox, with a focus on rethinking how designers create and collaborate in the AI era.

🎯 The Role

Noon is looking for a Lead/Staff Frontend Engineer to act as a technical anchor for its frontend organization. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on complex product surfaces, including high-performance canvases with thousands of AI-generated nodes and real-time collaborative workflows.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• React
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Modern state management such as Zustand, Recoil, Jotai, or Redux
• Canvas and complex rendering systems
• Testing, CI/CD, observability, and release reliability tooling

💼 What You'll Do

• Define frontend module boundaries, data flow, state architecture, rendering strategy, and extensibility patterns.
• Drive technical direction through RFCs, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning.
• Improve frontend performance for large documents, long-running sessions, memory usage, and rendering-heavy workflows.
• Build a quality culture around testing, CI checks, observability, and regression prevention.
• Collaborate closely with Design, Product, and Backend teams on product tradeoffs, APIs, and distributed-system decisions.
• Mentor frontend engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and internal workshops.

✅ What You'll Need

• 6–10 years of experience building large-scale web applications.
• 2–4 years in a Lead or Staff role with ownership of frontend architecture and technical strategy.
• Strong React and TypeScript experience for complex, performance-sensitive interfaces.
• Prior work on complex UI systems such as canvases, editors, node-based tools, multi-pane layouts, or timelines.
• Deep understanding of state management and reactive programming patterns.
• Experience diagnosing and improving frontend performance under real production conditions.
• Ability to work with backend teams on API contracts and distributed-system tradeoffs.
• Ownership mindset around build tooling, testing strategy, observability, and release quality.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience building design tools, creative tools, whiteboarding products, or collaborative editors.
• Prior exposure to AI-assisted product experiences or systems with generated visual nodes.
• Comfort working in a small, high-ownership, in-office startup team.