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title: 'Sr. Front-End Engineer at Standard Template Labs'
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# Sr. Front-End Engineer at Standard Template Labs

- **Company:** Standard Template Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/st-labs/292b2be7-7b19-4437-8ea0-27a89ac47b1f

## Job description

Standard Template Labs is an AI-native, seed stage startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. Backed by leading investors, we're leveraging AI, graph-based architecture, and exceptional design to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their technology ecosystems.

## The Role

We are seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer (AI-First) to join our small but growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll own and shape the user-facing product end to end: designing and building polished, high-performance interfaces, setting front-end technical direction, and leveraging AI-driven tools to accelerate development. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to turn complex enterprise workflows into intuitive, scalable front-end experiences.

This is a hands-on senior role with real ownership - ideal for someone who enjoys building, mentoring through example, and raising the bar for front-end quality across the product.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the front-end architecture for core product surfaces, making thoughtful decisions around state management, data fetching, performance, and scalability.
- Build responsive, accessible, and high-performance UIs using modern front-end technologies (e.g. React, Next.js, TypeScript).
- Design, develop, and evolve a shared component library / design system, ensuring consistency, usability, and maintainability as the product grows.
- Collaborate closely with backend engineers to define API contracts (REST / SSE / GraphQL) and ensure smooth, efficient data flow between frontend and backend.
- Build AI-first, realtime user experiences, including streaming and interactive components that respond dynamically to backend and model outputs.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (code generation, refactoring, testing, linting, review) as a core part of your workflow to increase velocity while maintaining high code quality.
- Partner deeply with Product and Design to translate UX concepts and wireframes into production-ready features, proactively identifying edge cases, trade-offs, and implementation risks.
- Drive performance, accessibility, and quality across the front-end stack (load times, responsiveness, cross-browser support, a11y).
- Set and uphold high engineering standards: write clean, testable code; lead by example in code reviews; help define front-end best practices and patterns.

## What We’re Looking For

Required / Core Skills

- Several years of professional front-end engineering experience (or equivalent), with deep hands-on experience building production applications using modern JavaScript / TypeScript frameworks (e.g. React, Next.js).
- Strong mastery of HTML, CSS, and modern styling approaches (CSS-in-JS, design tokens, component-based styling), with a deep understanding of browser behavior, layout, and performance.
- Proven experience owning and evolving complex front-end systems, not just implementing features.
- Experience integrating with backend APIs (REST / GraphQL / streaming APIs) and collaborating closely with backend teams on system design.
- Experience building or supporting realtime, streaming, or AI-driven UI components.
- Strong product and UX instincts - comfortable working with designers and product managers to refine flows, interactions, and edge cases.
- High standards for code quality and maintainability; experience with testing strategies, CI/CD workflows, and version control (Git).
- Strong interest in - and comfort with - AI-augmented engineering workflows, using AI tools to accelerate development without sacrificing correctness or quality.

Nice-to-Have / Preferred

- Experience building conversational or chat-based interfaces, including managing complex client-side state, streaming responses, and dynamic message flows (e.g. ChatGPT-style UIs).
- Prior ownership of a design system or shared component library used by multiple engineers or teams.
- Deep experience with TypeScript in large-scale front-end codebases.
- Strong background in performance optimization, accessibility (a11y), and cross-browser support at scale.
- Experience working in a fast-moving startup or AI-native product environment.
- Strong communication skills - able to clearly articulate UI constraints, technical trade-offs, and architectural decisions to cross-functional partners.

## WHY YOU’LL ENJOY THIS ROLE

- You’ll own and shape the front-end experience of a next-generation AI-powered SaaS product.
- You’ll operate in a true AI-first engineering culture, using modern tooling to dramatically increase productivity and impact.
- You’ll work closely with Product and Design, influencing how complex enterprise functionality is surfaced and used by real customers.
- You’ll help define scalable, long-term front-end architecture and raise the quality bar as the team and product grow.
- You’ll have real autonomy, responsibility, and visibility - your decisions will directly shape the product.

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at is: $160,000—$230,000 USD.

## About Standard Template Labs

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise IT Service Management (ITSM), AI-powered operations
- **Target customers**: B2B – IT operations, HR/people ops, engineering teams at mid-market and enterprise organizations
- **Mission or purpose**: Reinvent IT service management from the ground up – modern, efficient, and built for the way companies work today, without legacy baggage.

## Products & Services
- **Self-Service**: AI agents that resolve employee requests (password resets, access requests, device issues) through natural conversation, enforcing policy and provisioning automatically.
- **Operator Intelligence**: Enriches incoming tickets with live context, clusters them by root cause, and suggests automations so one fix resolves hundreds of incidents.
- **Axiom™**: A real-time, self-maintaining graph of every person, device, app, and infrastructure relationship. Enables impact analysis, blast radius mapping, and dependency tracing without manual CMDB.
- **Workflow Engine**: AI generates auditable, version-controlled code for workflows; deterministic execution with human-in-the-loop escalation and policy guardrails.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – not disclosed; backed by prominent investors (see below)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board Director **Matt Jacobson** (General Partner at ICONIQ Capital, board member of Datadog, GitLab, etc.); other investors include Murat Bicer (likely from ICONIQ). Partners: 100+ integrations with identity providers, ticketing systems, cloud infrastructure, and communication tools.
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, already 25 total employees (15 product+tech), 16 open roles as of mid-2025. In-office 5 days a week in Midtown Manhattan, indicating rapid team scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture** – built from scratch for the AI era, not bolted onto legacy systems.
- **Live graph (Axiom)** – reasons over real-time relationships, not stale snapshots, enabling accurate root cause and impact analysis.
- **Deterministic execution** – every action is auditable, versioned, and reproducible; no black-box magic.
- **Self-maintaining** – integrations adapt when APIs change; no manual CMDB.
- **Policy guardrails** – natural language policies that AI interprets directly, ensuring compliance.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Building the platform modules (self-service, operator intelligence, Axiom) and expanding integration ecosystem. Hiring aggressively across engineering, product, and operations to accelerate product development and go-to-market.
- **Direction for growth**: Displacing legacy ITSM tools (ServiceNow, etc.) with a modern, AI-driven alternative that reduces ticket volume and automates complex workflows.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: High ownership, low process – ship meaningful work every week. Technical depth (graph databases, LLM orchestration, self-healing integrations). Real impact on a massive, broken market.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: On-site only – work from Midtown Manhattan office alongside the founding team, five days a week. Collaborative, focused environment.
- **Notable perks**: Offers company equity; Unlimited PTO policy; healthcare benefits. Early-stage startup with strong backing – opportunity to grow with the company.

## Sources
1. [stlabs.com](https://stlabs.com)
2. [stlabs.com/about](https://stlabs.com/about)
3. [stlabs.com/careers](https://stlabs.com/careers)
4. [builtin.com/company/standard-template-labs-0](https://builtin.com/company/standard-template-labs-0)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/st-labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/st-labs)

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