Member of Technical Staff (Frontend)
We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Frontend) at Ona.
You'll build refined interactions and systems that make software development seamless. Working with React, Figma, and Go, you'll solve significant problems for global engineering teams. We're looking for highly ambitious and deeply passionate engineers who combine technical excellence with architectural taste, taking ownership of foundational systems to deliver pragmatic, performant and maintainable results. We deeply care about the product we build and are excited to add someone to the team that feels the same.
Who we are
We're a talent-dense group of people who transform how software is created, working to empower every company, every team, and every individual to succeed in a software-first world. We've found product-market-fit and are scaling with high velocity towards repeatable go-to-market fit.
We care deeply, and for many of us, building Ona is our life's work. Our operating principles are an honest representation of how we build relationships and make decisions. We choose colleagues carefully based on merit and their authentic alignment with these principles.
If you're energized by the above, we'd love for you to apply!
Role responsibilities
Our operating principles are a core responsibility of every role. We expect anyone that joins the team to take an active part in forming and enhancing our culture by living out these principles and holding others accountable towards them.
Role-specific responsibilities:
Drive technical initiatives end-to-end. Balance immediate needs with long-term sustainability while maintaining high standards for reliability and simplicity.
Craft pixel-perfect components and refined interactions. Collaborate with product design to deliver impactful features that consider every facet of the user experience.
Own core Ona systems. Ensure reliability and continuous evolution of your focus area, whether frontend, backend, or infrastructure.
Elevate engineering best practices. Contribute to code reviews, architecture discussions, and documentation to raise overall quality and consistency
Solve high-impact technical challenges. Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, and developer experience improvements across the stack.
At the end of your first 30 days, you will have:
Ship code on day one using Ona to build Ona
Built deep understanding of Ona's core value proposition and architecture through hands-on contribution, user interviews, and key system analysis. Able to articulate main technical and business challenges.
Shipped multiple meaningful improvements across the stack, demonstrating ability to navigate our codebase, deployment processes, and engineering principles effectively
Established strong working relationships within your direct team and adjacent teams (e.g. Go-to-Market, Sales) through collaborative problem-solving and technical discussions. Started contributing to architecture and design discussions.
Shipped a feature that lands on our changelog and is demoed in All Hands
Opened the drawer and challenged the CTO on a design idea
About you
You work in alignment with our operating principles.
You drive pragmatic engineering excellence. You have strong technical judgment that helps you identify the right level of investment for each situation - knowing when to build for scale and when to optimize for speed. You consistently deliver high-quality solutions while remaining pragmatic about trade-offs. Most importantly, you're a generalist who can contribute effectively across our stack while bringing deep expertise in your chosen focus area.
You build high-impact systems. When building systems, you start by deeply understanding the problem space, the designing a solution. You have a track record of delivering outcomes that not only work well technically, but drive meaningful value for users and the business. You think holistically about the entire product experience including performance, documentation, user workflows, and operational concerns.
You lead through execution. You drive results through a combination of technical expertise, clear communication, and strong execution. You're comfortable taking ownership of complex problems and leading them through to completion, bringing others along through influence rather than authority. You have a proven track record of delivering significant technical initiatives while helping raise the bar for the entire engineering organization.
Additionally, we're looking for someone with most of the following:
Track record of shipping and owning production systems at scale
Experience working across the stack effectively
Evidence of pragmatic technical decision-making and leadership
Fast learner with demonstrated ability to pick up new technologies
Design Engineering:
Strong visual and UX design sensibilities
Deep React/TypeScript experience
Track record of building polished, non-simplistic web applications
We use these tools and expect you to have familiarity with most of them:
Notion, Slack
Excel, Google Sheets
Claude, ChatGPT
GitHub, VS Code, Cursor
Observability: Grafana, Prometheus
CI/CD practices
API design (REST, gRPC)
Design Engineering:
Figma
TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS
Strong knowledge of browser APIs and performance
Git, VS Code extension development (helpful)
Some backend exposure (Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL helpful)
Benefits
Remote-first, flexible work day
Flexible paid time off including holidays that are most meaningful to you
Parental leave for all parents
Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise)
Health insurance (country-specific)
Retirement (country-specific)
Wellness allowance
Premium work-from-home equipment
Regular company off-sites
Interview process
We are remote-first and so is our hiring process. Contingent on schedules, we aim to complete the entire process in about 2 weeks. We are conscious of your time and are committed to being as efficient as possible.
We'll kick the process off with an intro call to see if there is mutual interest in moving forward.
Next, you'll complete a series of interviews designed to thoroughly evaluate our mutual compatibility.
CTO
Head of People
Peer chat
Project and panel presentation
CEO
References and background check - Before moving to an offer, we’ll set up video calls with 3 direct managers and/or senior leaders that can speak to your performance. Additionally, we will run a full background check (location dependent).