--- title: 'Staff Engineer - UI at Ontic' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-ui-ontic-pune-8k1f36s4b906' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Staff Engineer - UI at Ontic - **Company:** Ontic - **Location:** Pune, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-06-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ontic/84966594-9881-45f9-bede-af54a0118a87/application **Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, Frontend architecture, Design systems, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud environments, Observability tools, Monitoring tools, Performance tracking tools, Micro-frontend architectures, Modular frontend systems, Security considerations in frontend applications, AI-assisted development tools, Codex, Cursor > Ontic is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to drive frontend architecture, shared capabilities, and engineering excellence across multiple teams. The role involves defining scalable patterns, leading architecture reviews, and mentoring senior engineers to improve consistency, scalability, and developer experience. ## Job description ## Who We Are Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record, enabling organizations to conduct risk assessments, protect against workplace violence, and manage threats and incidents more efficiently. Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies rely on Ontic to support security programs such as executive protection, threat intelligence, and corporate investigations. Learn more at [ontic.ai](http://ontic.ai) or follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ontic-technologies/). ## Role Summary Ontic is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend to drive frontend architecture, shared capabilities, and engineering excellence across multiple teams. This role is intended for engineers with deep frontend expertise, strong systems thinking, and a passion for creating leverage through reusable platforms, frameworks, and standards. You will operate across product and platform teams to improve consistency, scalability, developer experience, and maintainability across Ontic's frontend ecosystem. Success in this role comes from solving problems that impact multiple teams, influencing technical direction without direct authority, and enabling other engineers to move faster through shared solutions and architectural guidance. ## Key Responsibilities Architecture - Define and evolve frontend architecture patterns and shared capabilities used across multiple product teams - Drive adoption of scalable patterns for component architecture, state management, application structure, and frontend integrations - Ensure consistency, reusability, maintainability, and scalability across frontend codebases - Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on frontend design decisions across teams - Identify opportunities to simplify frontend systems through shared abstractions and reusable solutions Frontend Platform & Shared Capabilities - Drive adoption of shared frontend platforms, frameworks, and tooling across teams - Partner with platform and product teams to improve consistency across Ontic's frontend ecosystem - Identify opportunities to reduce duplicated engineering effort through reusable solutions and shared capabilities - Improve engineering velocity through standardization, automation, and platform investments - Contribute to the evolution of design systems, UI frameworks, and shared frontend infrastructure Technical Direction - Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ensure architectural decisions align with product, platform, and engineering objectives - Establish engineering standards, best practices, and decision frameworks for frontend development - Guide teams in making sound technical decisions aligned with long-term maintainability and scalability goals - Drive adoption of modern frontend technologies, tools, and workflows - Influence technical direction across multiple teams through collaboration and technical leadership Performance, Quality & Experience - Define and drive standards for performance, accessibility, and user experience across frontend applications - Lead initiatives to improve application performance, responsiveness, and reliability - Establish best practices for testing, observability, monitoring, and frontend reliability - Improve developer experience through better tooling, workflows, documentation, and platform capabilities - Drive initiatives that improve engineering productivity and reduce friction in frontend development Risk & System Evolution - Identify systemic frontend risks including performance bottlenecks, architectural inconsistencies, scalability challenges, and maintainability concerns - Lead cross-team efforts to address technical debt and improve overall system health - Drive evolution of frontend systems to support increasing scale, complexity, and business needs - Proactively identify engineering challenges affecting multiple teams and drive sustainable solutions Technical Leadership - Mentor senior engineers and elevate frontend engineering standards across teams - Act as a technical multiplier by helping teams solve recurring engineering challenges through reusable solutions and architectural guidance - Influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority - Foster a culture of quality, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement - Lead critical technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or domains - Facilitate technical alignment between product and platform engineering teams ## Qualifications and Experiences - 8-12 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in frontend development - Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS - Extensive experience with React (or similar frameworks) in large-scale applications - Strong expertise in frontend architecture, design systems, and scalable UI development - Proven experience building and evolving shared component libraries or frontend platforms - Deep understanding of browser internals, rendering, and performance optimization - Experience defining and driving frontend standards and best practices across teams - Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without direct authority - Strong ability to translate product and design needs into scalable technical solutions - Experience with modern frontend tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments - Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and performance tracking tools - Experience working on large-scale SaaS platforms Good to Have - Experience leading or contributing to design systems at scale - Exposure to micro-frontend architectures or modular frontend systems - Familiarity with security considerations in frontend applications - Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Codex, Cursor, etc.) - Background in improving developer experience and platform engineering - Experience driving frontend modernization or platform adoption initiatives What Success Looks Like Within 12–18 months, successful Staff Engineers at Ontic: - Drive adoption of shared frontend capabilities across multiple teams - Reduce engineering duplication through reusable solutions - Improve frontend consistency, reliability, and developer experience - Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams - Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering standards - Influence architecture decisions beyond their immediate team - Create leverage that enables teams to deliver faster and with higher quality Ontic Benefits & Perks - Competitive Salary - Medical Benefits - Internet Reimbursement - Home Office Stipend - Continued Education Stipend - Festive & Achievement Celebrations - Dynamic Office Environment Ontic is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that celebrates diversity. We do not discriminate against any individual based on race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any factors protected by applicable law. Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ontic we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Ontic prioritizes the full inclusion of qualified individuals, providing necessary accommodations for those with disabilities to perform essential job functions. If you need assistance during the application or interview process or job tasks, please contact us at recruitment@ontic.co or call (512) 572-7400 ## About Ontic ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ontic provides a security management platform that unifies physical and cybersecurity data, tools, and workflows for corporate and government security teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Fred Burton (Co-Founder & Executive Chairman), Manish Mehta (Co-Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Security Management Software, Enterprise Security, Risk Intelligence, Threat Management - Target customers: B2B — Fortune 500 companies, government agencies (federal, state, local), and enterprise security teams across sectors including finance, technology, travel, and energy. - Mission or purpose statement: "To keep people safe and make organizations stronger by creating intelligent connections between humans and critical data." ## Products & Services - **[Ontic Platform]**: A unified SaaS platform that centralizes data, automates workflows, and delivers AI-assisted insights for corporate security operations. It connects threat intelligence, incident management, investigations, and risk assessments into one operating picture. - **[Executive Protection]**: Module for anticipating, assessing, and mitigating physical and digital threats to executives; includes protective intelligence and physical security gap analysis. - **[Threat Intelligence]**: Module for monitoring digital threats via comprehensive open-source intelligence (OSINT), managing the full intelligence lifecycle, and integrating human-verified intelligence without switching tools. - **[Incident Management]**: Module to connect and automate incident operations across locations and teams, cutting resolution time by up to 50%. - **[Corporate Investigations]**: Module for researching, monitoring, and managing cases in one place with automated admin tasks and complete context. - **[Risk & Vulnerability Assessments]**: Module for proactively identifying and remediating physical vulnerabilities through customizable assessments. - **[Behavioral Threat Assessments]**: Module for identifying concerning behavior early and responding confidently with structured, connected threat assessments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: **$286.6 million** in total funding across 5 rounds (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) led the $230M Series C (2025); JMI Equity led the $40M Series B (2021); Felicis led the $12M Series A (2020); Silverton Partners led the $4.7M Seed round (2019). Partners include International SOS, AAR, and Honeywell. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **30.3% year-over-year** to 283 employees. Achieved **FedRAMP Moderate Authorization** (April 2026), enabling government agency deployments. Recognized as **2026 Frost Radar™ Risk Intelligence Solutions Growth & Innovation Leader** for the third consecutive year. Awarded **2025 Global Risk Intelligence Solutions Company of the Year** by Frost & Sullivan. ## Competitive Advantages - **Connected Intelligence Platform**: Unifies disparate security tools and data into a single operating picture, eliminating "accidental silos" that keep security teams reactive. - **AI-Ready Operations**: Built-in AI automation for busywork, trend analysis, and pattern recognition, making the platform future-proof as security data grows. - **Security & Compliance**: FedRAMP Moderate Authorization and SOC 2 compliance, a critical differentiator for government and highly regulated industry clients. - **Domain Expertise**: Over 156 decades of collective security experience among staff; 16% of U.S. employees have military or government backgrounds. Co-founder Fred Burton is a former State Department counterterrorism agent and author. - **Proven ROI**: Client case studies cite $2M in recovery/cost avoidance, 200+ investigations managed in 6 months, and headcount expansion from 4 to 16 enabled by platform metrics. ## Strategic Focus - **Government Expansion**: Following FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, Ontic is actively targeting U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies. - **AI & Automation**: Continuing to embed AI across the platform to automate manual workflows, surface predictive insights, and help security teams "act with foresight." - **Product Breadth**: Expanding modules (Executive Protection, Behavioral Threat Assessments, Risk Assessments) to serve the full spectrum of corporate security programs. - **Global Scale**: Growing presence in India (108 employees) and exploring further international expansion, with offices in Austin, Noida (India), and remote teams. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Strong emphasis on five core values: "Do good above all," "Lead with empathy," "Raise the bar," "Walk the walk," and "Keep moving." Consistently rated a **Great Place to Work** (6x certified), **Inc. Best Workplaces Honoree** (2025), and **Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas** (2025). - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible — "Your office is where you are." The company supports remote work, but new hires attend in-person onboarding at the Austin HQ (called "CORE") once a month to build community. - **Engineering Culture**: Collaborative, non-political, and transparent. Employees highlight "helpful leadership" and a "spirit of never settle." Engineering teams in the US and India collaborate daily via Slack, Zoom, and weekly all-hands calls. - **Growth & Learning**: "Always learning, always growing" is a stated value. The company offers opportunities to innovate and test new ideas, especially around AI and product development. - **Notable Perks**: Comprehensive health coverage, emphasis on work-life balance, milestone celebrations, and a mission-driven environment where employees feel they are making a tangible impact on safety. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Equal opportunity employer; encourages diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Employee testimonials highlight a supportive, non-political culture. ## Sources 1. [ontic.co - Company Website](https://ontic.co/) 2. [ontic.co - About Us](https://ontic.co/company/about-us/) 3. [ontic.co - Careers](https://ontic.co/company/careers/) 4. [LinkedIn - Ontic Technologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ontic-technologies) 5. 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