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title: 'Lead Software Engineer - Frontend at Faros'
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# Lead Software Engineer - Frontend at Faros

- **Company:** Faros
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/faros-ai/8f94a7f5-6cc1-4f3a-b939-8d52dbdbcd32

## Job description

Mission 🚀 At Faros, we are building the engineering intelligence platform for the AI era. We help engineering organizations understand the impact of AI on software delivery while providing the operational context that enables AI agents to operate with greater accuracy, relevance, and trust in complex enterprise environments. Our platform is used by some of the most sophisticated engineering teams in the world, ranging from fast-growing technology companies to F500 enterprises. We believe the future of software development will be built by humans and AI working together, and we're building the foundation that makes that possible.

## About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Lead Front-End Developer to join our team. Your primary responsibility will be the development and maintenance of the frontend of our SaaS product, utilizing modern web development technologies and best practices. However, we highly value candidates who are able to learn about other parts of the stack to gain a holistic understanding of our system. You will also be responsible for mentoring and coaching your team members, and for helping to ensure that our team is using the latest and greatest technologies and best practices.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the development of front-end solutions for our SaaS product, using modern web development technologies and best practices.
- Work with designers and back-end developers to create a seamless user experience.
- Optimize the front-end for performance and accessibility.
- Integrate with open-source solutions.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade software components as necessary.
- Conduct testing and validation to ensure software performance and reliability.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in front-end development.
- Mentor junior front-end developers.
- Review code contributions from external contractors.

## What We Value

- Living by our values over avoiding conflict. We favor transparency and honest debate because strong decisions depend on saying the hard things out loud.
- Transformation over predictability. We dedicate our efforts to work that produces monumental outcomes for our customers, even if it means trading short-term predictability for long-term impact.
- Intensity over comfort. We move with urgency and focus, especially when the work is messy or unstructured.
- Craftsmanship over throughput. We take pride in how things are built. Quality, coherence, and care matter. We would rather ship fewer things done right than many things done carelessly.
- Ownership over process. We act like founders. If we see something broken, we fix it. We don’t wait for permission, committees, or perfect instructions. Process exists to help us move faster, not to give us an excuse to stand still.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Proven 5+ years of experience as a front-end developer
- Strong experience with modern web development frameworks (Next.js & React preferred)
- Strong understanding of CSS
- Strong understanding of JavaScript or TypeScript (Typescript preferred)
- Experience with architecting and designing scalable and performant front-end solutions
- Experience with testing and debugging tools (Jest, Cypress preferred)
- Knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices
- Strong problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on product development
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
- Experience with enterprise authentication/authorization workflows
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Experience interacting with customers (showcasing work, help debugging, etc)

Work Details Our team meets in-person several days a week in San Mateo, CA.

## About Faros

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Faros provides an AI-native engineering intelligence platform that gives leaders visibility into how work operates across code, people, and systems, enabling them to measure quality, productivity, and AI impact.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Vitaly Gordon (CEO), Shubha Nabar (Chief Scientist), Matthew Tovbin (CTO) – all former founding team of Salesforce Einstein

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Engineering Intelligence / Developer Productivity / AI Operations
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise engineering teams and leaders
- **Mission**: “To forge a world where engineering moves at the speed of ideas.” – The company advances those who build, by turning engineering data into actionable insights.

## Products & Services
- **Faros Platform**: An AI-powered knowledge graph that unifies engineering data (people, agents, processes, tools) to provide a single pane view of velocity, quality, goals, costs, and AI token spend. Features include DORA metrics, AI impact & ROI measurement, token intelligence, and context for AI agents. Integrates with any SDLC tool and AI agent in days.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$4.2M** (LinkedIn estimate) / Total Funding of **$36M**
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SignalFire (led Seed round), Lobby Capital / David Hornik (led Series A); Partner mention: Microsoft Azure (case study)
- **Growth Signals**: 43 employees (+38.1% YoY headcount growth); 15 active job openings; customer wins include Vimeo; published “AI Engineering Report 2026” based on data from 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team from Salesforce Einstein** – deep enterprise AI experience
- **AI-native architecture** – builds a knowledge graph of how teams build software, providing context that makes AI agents more effective
- **Complete vendor-agnostic integration** – works with any AI tool, SDLC, and workflow
- **Proven ROI** – customers report 40% fewer failed outcomes and higher PR velocity
- **Enterprise-grade security** and scalability handling thousands of engineers

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Transformation**: Helping organizations trial, scale, and optimize AI by measuring its impact on productivity, quality, and developer experience
- **Token Intelligence**: Tracing every AI dollar to shipped outcomes to justify investment
- **Initiative Acceleration**: Using AI-powered progress and capacity insights to keep commitments on track

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Ownership, Intensity, Craftsmanship, and Transformational impact. The team acts like founders and optimizes for momentum and learning over comfort.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly; headquarters in San Mateo, CA with team members across the US, Argentina, Canada, and Switzerland.
- **Engineering Culture**: High-agency, data-driven, with a focus on building enterprise software that shapes how humans and AI collaborate. Opportunity to define the future of engineering operations.
- **Perks & Recognition**: LinkedIn employer rating **4.5/5** (2 reviews) with perfect scores for Work-Life, Culture, and Career. Active hiring across engineering, sales, product, and design.

## Sources
1. [faros.ai](https://www.faros.ai)
2. [faros.ai - Company](https://www.faros.ai/company)
3. [faros.ai - Careers](https://www.faros.ai/company/careers)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/faros-ai)
5. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/faros)

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