Hybrid Software Engineer, Frontend

at Side

• Job title: Software Engineer, Frontend
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $164,000 - $190,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cypress, JavaScript, Jest, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Yarn
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Mid-Level Frontend Software Engineer at Side developing applications supporting real estate transactions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build and maintain frontend solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve frontend features and UI components that support real estate transaction workflows for our partners.
• Collaborate with Product and cross-functional partners to turn business requirements into technical solutions.
• Partner with design stakeholders to deliver pixel-perfect UI from Figma files and contribute to our shared design system.
• Deliver medium-sized features independently, with support from senior engineers on larger or more complex initiatives.
• Participate in system design discussions and contribute practical ideas around scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code.
• Create and maintain automated tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.
• Review code thoughtfully and incorporate feedback from others.
• Troubleshoot production issues, debug complex frontend bugs and UI regressions, and support operational excellence.
• Identify technical debt and suggest pragmatic improvements.
• Follow engineering best practices for security, observability, data integrity, and application performance.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity across prototyping, debugging, task management, documentation, and code review, while applying strong judgment to validate correctness, security, and maintainability.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience building production frontend applications.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React.
• Solid experience with Next.js and modern React patterns (hooks, server/client components, App Router).
• Intermediate proficiency in CSS and its core concepts (box model, Flexbox, CSS Grid, positioning, specificity, media queries, etc.)
• Comfort working in a large monorepo with shared libraries and internal conventions (Nx, Yarn workspaces).
• Strong experience with testing using Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress.
• Experience working with Git and GitHub in a collaborative development workflow.
• Ability to break down technical problems and deliver maintainable solutions with guidance when needed.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering and non-engineering teams.
• Good judgment around reliability, security, and performance in production systems.
• Comfortable learning and adapting to new tools and workflows, including AI-assisted development tools.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Best-in-class benefits, including 100% healthcare coverage (medical, vision and dental)
• Flexible PTO
• Learning & Development credit
• Pet-friendly environment