Frontend SDE II

Summary

Slate is building safe, reliable, customizable vehicles in the USA and is seeking a Frontend Software Development Engineer II to help define and build its digital customer experience. The role focuses on developing performant customer-facing web and mobile interfaces, leading frontend architecture, ensuring production readiness, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver customer-facing web/mobile experiences that are performant, reliable, and intuitive
• Lead the implementation and evolution of frontend systems, including component design, state management, and UI architecture
• Write clean, well-structured code and actively participate in code reviews and technical design discussions
• Own code quality end-to-end, including testing, edge-case handling, and production readiness
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and UX partners to translate customer needs into elegant technical solutions
• Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability—and clearly communicate those decisions
• Continuously simplify and improve systems, demonstrating strong judgment, creativity, and attention to detail
• Mentor other engineers through example, feedback, and technical discussion, contributing to a strong engineering culture

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on frontend or customer-facing web development
• Strong proficiency in modern frontend languages, ideally TypeScript, React and JavaScript, with solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and problem decomposition
• Experience building and maintaining production UI systems, including performance optimization, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
• 3+ years contributing to frontend architecture and design, including patterns for maintainability, reliability, and scalability
• 3+ years working across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build tooling, testing, and operational support
• Familiarity working in cloud-backed environments (e.g., integrating with APIs, CI/CD pipelines, AWS and/or Azure), with an understanding of how frontend systems behave in production
• Strong communication skills: you ask clarifying questions, state assumptions, identify constraints, and explain your thinking clearly—especially when requirements are ambiguous
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on frontend or customer-facing web development
• Strong proficiency in modern frontend languages, ideally TypeScript, React and JavaScript, with solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and problem decomposition
• Experience building and maintaining production UI systems, including performance optimization, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
• 3+ years contributing to frontend architecture and design, including patterns for maintainability, reliability, and scalability
• 3+ years working across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build tooling, testing, and operational support
• Familiarity working in cloud-backed environments (e.g., integrating with APIs, CI/CD pipelines, AWS and/or Azure), with an understanding of how frontend systems behave in production
• Strong communication skills: you ask clarifying questions, state assumptions, identify constraints, and explain your thinking clearly—especially when requirements are ambiguous
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Vacation
• 401k
• The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in the equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs.