About the Role
As a Frontend Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience of our AI-powered platform. You will solve complex interaction design challenges by creating innovative, intuitive interfaces that redefine how users interact with AI. We are breaking free from traditional, turn-based chat paradigms to create dynamic, highly interactive experiences where conversations evolve beyond simple text.
What You’ll Do
- Design and architecture for new and existing frontend components.
- Take end-to-end ownership of new code from prototype to production.
- Participate in architecture reviews, identify risks, and advocate for simplicity of design.
- Ship production-grade code to daily active users.
- Work closely with PMS, engineers, and designers to ensure innovations address real-world problems.
- As part of our small team, you’ll not only contribute but also gain a unique, behind-the-scenes view of a startup’s full journey — influencing our growth from the ground up.
- Work on fun and technically challenging projects to deliver impactful projects on popular browsers.
- Contributing to a team that upholds high standards of engineering excellence.
- Build cool things!
Our Stack
- TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Google Cloud, Cloudflare Workers, serverless architecture.
- React and Tailwind or similar UI frameworks are a plus, but a strong grasp of web API
- fundamentals is even more important.
- You should be proficient with native CSS, DOM, etc, and not only high-level frameworks.
- Full-stack experience is a plus.
- Experience with Chrome extensions is a plus.
What We Require
- You have passion and expertise for building things.
- One or more years of experience as a software engineer or have built significant side projects independently that demonstrate strong technical skills, creativity, and initiative.
- Power user of applications powered by LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude Code, Gemini, CoPilot, Cursor).
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Proficiency in JavaScript (with a preference for TypeScript) and/or Python are essential.
- Understanding fundamental React principles is a plus.
- A knack for solving complex problems with simple solutions.
- Working knowledge of building secure systems and implementing industry-standard security best practices.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Working on-site in the Menlo Park office.
Working at Ventrilo.ai
- Continue to push the boundaries of our existing product.
- A unique, behind-the-scenes view of a startup’s journey from the ground up.
- A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to make a tremendous impact.
- Ventrilo.ai is an equal-opportunity employer.