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Technical Lead, Frontend

Onyx · San Francisco · On-site

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About Onyx

Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Onyx is a popular open source project with hundreds of thousands of users. The project has over 13K stars and over 3K community members across Slack and Discord (these stats may already be out of date when you read this). You’ll have the opportunity to build in the open and your work may be used by millions of people in the future. As an early hire, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core product. Help us become the biggest “GenAI for work” application in the world!

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of frontend engineering experience building complex, user-facing applications
  • Have an incredible bar for yourself and for others. You want your work to be exceptional, and accept nothing less
  • In-depth experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NextJS and other modern frontend technologies
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Strong product/design intuition
More about this role

Onyx is a popular open source project with hundreds of thousands of users. The project has over 13K stars and over 3K community members across Slack and Discord (these stats may already be out of date when you read this). You’ll have the opportunity to build in the open and your work may be used by millions of people in the future.

As an early hire, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core product. Help us become the biggest “GenAI for work” application in the world!

Doing everything frontend for the default open-source chat interface, enterprise search platform, and agent builder. Some specific features:

Beautiful core search and chat experience (animations, speed, etc.). Think building the UI/UX layer for Perplexity AND ChatGPT in one.

Huge feature set: workspace search, internet search, code interpreter, artifacts, deep research, and so much more

Collaborating closely with the design team + founders

Setting frontend priorities and best practices

Building an exceptional design / frontend engineering culture

Fostering an open-source community; guiding contributors on adding to the frontend

This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA.

4+ years of frontend...

Read the full posting on Onyx's site ↗

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