Founding Frontend Engineer (Growth Team)
- $160k – $210k • 0.2% – 0.4%
- Full Time
Not Available
In office - WFH flexibility
About the job
Who are we?
GPTZero’s mission is to restore information quality and transparency on the internet.
Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Microsoft, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, Vector, and MILA. We are working on novel models and pushing cutting-edge research to production, including AI detection, AI hallucination detection, retrieval augmented generation, and writing stylometry to over 3 million active users, and enterprise clients including Fortune 1000 and Unicorn AI companies.
We are backed by some of the best in the valley, including Uncork, Neo, Altman Capital, and in journalism, including Mark Thompson (CEO of NYT, BBC, CNN) and Tom Glocer (CEO of Reuters) who defined a generation of quality digital information.
What we're looking for
As a founding frontend engineer, you’ll build and ship responsible AI-powered products to millions of users. You'll help expand our AI detection and verification platform and create new products. We are looking for someone who works fast shipping new features and UIs, while collaborating closely with our world-class design team and working to optimize on-page SEO.
Responsibilities
Ship intuitive, AI-powered web applications from scratch in React
Improve our product-led conversion funnel using analytics, user discovery, and latest methods
Collaborate on defining the product roadmap with our ML, design, and business teams
Establish a deep understanding of our users by meeting with clients and power users from academia, marketing, publishing, and data labeling
Design robust software with comprehensive test suites and monitoring
Qualifications
3+ years of experience with modern JS web frameworks (React.js, Next.js, and Typescript)
Proficient in frontend development with a strong understanding of SEO best practices, enabling optimization of web pages for improved search engine performance.
Experience collaborating closely with design teams to ensure seamless integration of design and functionality.
Familiarity with high-traffic platforms or fast-paced startups, demonstrating expertise in optimizing web pages for scalability and user experience.
Highly motivated to make positive societal impact
Wear multiple hats and be a leader as our team grows
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
US work eligibility or visa
Bonus:
Who you'll be joining
We’re a small team. We value ownership, transparency, and listening to each other.
Everyone works and interacts with everyone. Everyone is free to attend meetings across product functions, whether it's diving into designs or dropping into our ML learning groups.
Here are some people you’ll work closely with. You’ll be meeting everyone.
Alex (CTO), Ph.D. dropout, R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, 2021 and 2019 Best ML Hack at Stanford
Nazar (ML), employee #2 and head of ML at the profitable a16z-backed generative media company Reface, taking them to 250M+ downloads and 200+ headcount
Edward (CEO), Investigative journalist at BBC World Service, R&D at Microsoft AI and Princeton NLP lab
Vivienne (Product Marketing), founding marketer at no-code startup Bubble, propelling product lead growth to 3M+ users and $100M Series A
Jonathan (Strategy & Operations), former Director of Product at YipitData, led and scaled corporate business arm from 250K to 20M+ ARR, and from Series B to Series E
Jacob (Founding Full Stack), former software engineer at Affirm, University of Waterloo CS grad
Midhun Dandamudi (Senior Full Stack), former product engineering lead at Wellfound, Ex-Intuit/Bloomberg
Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of the internet, and on humanity.
Our Perks
🏥 Health, dental, and vision coverage
💻 Hybrid work in NYC Union Square Office
🚀 Competitive salary
🍰 Competitive equity for a founding team member
🎉 Quarterly team retreats and offsites
🏝 Flexible PTO
💡Learning stipend, mentorship, and time with world-class advisors, including: