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# Lead Front End Engineer at Material Bank

- **Company:** Material Bank
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/materialbank/jobs/7919161003?gh_jid=7919161003

## Job description

Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. Operating in 37 countries, our platform has become the standard for design professionals around the globe. Every day, Material Bank connects thousands of designers with tens of thousands of materials from leading brands. Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way for design professionals to search, sample, and specify materials.

About the role:

Material Bank is expanding its reach with the launch of our new MB3 platform – our modern B2B commerce platform built to replace our legacy system and serve the needs of architects, designers and brands at scale.

We're seeking a Lead Front End Engineer to design, build, and deliver technical and product roadmap features. You'll be part of a multidisciplinary team building innovative products with state-of-the-art technology, collaborating closely with designers and software engineers. You'll help shape key technology and tooling decisions, and work closely with the backend engineering team to define integration standards. You'll also own critical aspects of the site's engineering, including SEO tooling, site analytics, monitoring, performance optimization, and the selection of testing frameworks.

What you’ll do:

- Develop and maintain the front-end architecture for a brand-new platform, ensuring it aligns with the overall technical vision and business goals.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design and QA teams to translate wireframes and design mockups into interactive and visually appealing user interfaces and build “the right things the right way”
- Optimize UI components and application code for performance, scalability, and responsiveness, ensuring a smooth user experience even during high traffic periods. Be very aware of Accessibility, UX, and responsive design.
- Create and maintain documentation for UI components, coding standards, and best practices to facilitate collaboration among team members.
- Help the team to rewrite, refactor, and decouple frontend from a CommerceTools application to a NextJS app & build tests using playwright
- Help build the strategy, select the right tools, and implement SEO, site analytics, A/B testing, monitoring, etc.

What you’ll bring:

- Master’s degree in computer science
- 5+ Strong expertise in React and related libraries, with the ability to design and develop complex user interfaces using React components.
- Proficiency in HTML, REACT and CSS, including knowledge of CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS.
- Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
- Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions to ensure consistent performance across different web browsers.
- Create intuitive and responsive User Interfaces (UI) that provide an exceptional user experience, leveraging your expertise in front-end technologies.
- Able to maintain high-performance service requirement.

Preferred:

- Prior experience building e-commerce customer portals
- High proficiency at problem-solving with focus on speed of delivery, being a team player, and being into details
- Knowledge of CommerceTools is a plus

What’s our tech stack?

- React,  Javascript
- NextJS, Storybook, React Query
- Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Github Actions
- NewRelic, Sentry, Slack, GitHub, Jira, Notion

What you’ll get from us:

- Our people: We are a growth-driven team that values efficiency, builds smart automation, operates in small empowered teams, and moves quickly from idea to execution.
- Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
- Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
- Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
- Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities.
- Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
- Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid  working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.

Material Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran or disability status or other status protected under any applicable federal, state or local law.

## About Material Bank

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace that enables architects and designers to search, sample, and specify design materials with free, carbon-neutral overnight delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D; $325M+ total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, USA (with offices in Boca Raton, FL; Paris, France; Olive Branch, MS; and a New York office coming soon)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Adam I. Sandow (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Design Services, Architectural & Interior Design Materials Marketplace, Logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B — architects, interior designers, and design firms (120,000+ registered users); also serves manufacturers (500+ leading brands) seeking to get products specified
- **Mission or purpose**: To redefine the future of design by making the material search, sampling, and specification process fast, sustainable, and centralized — committed to net zero by 2040, 100% carbon neutral since 2020.

## Products & Services
- **Material Search & Sampling Platform**: A web-based marketplace where designers can search 500,000+ products across 300+ categories from 650+ brands. Orders placed by midnight ET are shipped in a single box and delivered by 10:30 AM the next day — always free for designers.
- **Brand Discovery & Specification**: Tools for designers to save materials, create boards, collaborate with colleagues, and communicate directly with brand representatives for product details, lead times, and quotes.
- **Manufacturer Services**: Brand exposure to 100,000+ design professionals, leads on-demand, sample reclamation, and massive brand awareness — all to help manufacturers drive specification.
- **Sustainability Initiatives**: Carbon-neutral shipping, sample reclamation, and a CEU webinar series (“Design Your Impact”) on sustainable specifying.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $325M+ total funding (latest round: $175M in 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not fully disclosed but backed by major venture firms (TechCrunch reported $28M Series A in 2021; $175M round in 2022). Partners include 500+ leading brands like Armstrong Flooring, Kimball International, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 120,000+ registered users, 560,000+ separate design projects, 33,000+ design firms & corporations, 500+ leading brands, 4.2M+ packages saved from being sent via consolidation. Expanded globally with a European launch in 2023. Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **One-box logistics moat**: Proprietary logistics network consolidates samples from hundreds of brands into a single overnight delivery — a massive operational moat that competitors cannot easily replicate.
- **Network effects**: As more designers join, more manufacturers want to list; as more brands list, the platform becomes more valuable to designers.
- **Sustainability leadership**: 100% carbon neutral since 2020 and committed to net zero by 2040 — a strong differentiator in an industry increasingly focused on environmental impact.
- **Speed & convenience**: Overnight delivery of physical samples from hundreds of brands — unmatched in the design industry.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Launched in Europe in 2023 (Paris office), signaling international growth.
- **Product expansion**: Moving beyond sampling into brand discovery, specification, and human connection — becoming a full lifecycle platform for design professionals.
- **Sustainability**: Deepening commitment to net zero, sample reclamation, and sustainable specifying education.
- **AI & data**: Actively hiring Senior Data & AI Engineer and Applied AI Engineer, suggesting investment in AI-powered search, recommendations, and logistics optimization.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-friendly culture**: “Remote-friendly but maintain a global presence for in-person collaboration” — most roles are remote, with hubs in South Florida, Paris, and Mississippi.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Full medical/dental/vision (some plans at 100% coverage), flexible PTO, company-wide break last week of December, 12 weeks paid parental leave, 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%, FSA/HSA, monthly remote stipend, employee referral bonuses, LifeMart discounts.
- **People-first values**: Leadership principles include “We care,” “We team,” “We grow,” “We build,” “We ask,” “We run” — emphasizing ownership, curiosity, speed, and collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Small but mighty technical team (25 people, 11% of workforce) with focus on data, AI, and platform engineering. Current openings include Senior Data & AI Engineer and Applied AI Engineer.
- **Growth trajectory**: $325M+ funded, expanding globally, recognized by Forbes as Best Startup Employer — high growth with stability.
- **Mission-driven**: Working on sustainability (net zero by 2040) and transforming a legacy industry — appealing to purpose-driven talent.
- **Employer rating**: 3.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (81 reviews), with compensation rated 4.1/5.0, culture 3.2, work-life 3.0, career 3.3.

## Sources
1. [materialbank.com](https://www.materialbank.com/)
2. [careers.materialbank.com](https://careers.materialbank.com/careers)
3. [careers.materialbank.com/about](https://careers.materialbank.com/careers/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/materialbank](https://www.linkedin.com/company/materialbank)
5. [TechCrunch (2021) - $28M Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/material-bank-a-logistics-platform-for-sourcing-architectural-and-design-samples-raises-28m/)
6. [Business of Home (2022) - $175M round](https://businessofhome.com/articles/material-bank-raises-175-million)

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