Frontend Engineer (React)

About Nacelle:

Nacelle is revolutionizing eCommerce by combining cutting-edge AI technologies with unparalleled data integration to deliver personalized experiences for merchants. Our flagship product, Genesis, pulls data from various sources—product catalogs, brand voice documents, customer feedback, and marketing transcripts—to create deep context for AI models, generating highly relevant, real-time outputs. We’re committed to creating reliable, maintainable, and scalable software by following proven design principles and embracing test-driven development (TDD) as a core practice.

The role:

We're looking for a frontend wizard who loves diving deep into React and TypeScript, someone who's not afraid to explore every corner of what modern web technologies can do. This is a role for an engineer who gets excited about high quality code and crafting beautiful experiences.

You'll be joining us at an exciting time where you'll help shape our product from the ground up. We're in that thrilling 0 → 1 phase, where your code will have immediate impact and your architectural decisions will set the foundation for our future growth. If you're the kind of person who thrives on turning ambitious ideas into reality and gets energized by startup momentum, we want to talk to you.

We're especially keen to meet developers who:

• Love pushing the boundaries of what's possible with React, TypeScript, and modern web APIs
• Have that startup DNA: you move fast, adapt quickly, and think on your feet
• Are curious about AI and eager to apply it to real problems
• Take ownership of your projects and drive them from whiteboard to production
• Write clean, tested code

Key Responsibilities:

• Rapidly build and ship exceptional frontend experiences that leverage our AI capabilities
• Design and implement scalable React architectures that set the standard for our frontend development
• Drive technical decisions around frontend tooling, testing approaches, and development workflows
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver features that the world has never seen before at startup speed
• Balance quick iteration with maintainable patterns and documented best practices

Requirements:

• 6+ years of shipping code with a strong frontend focus
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript- you know the React specs inside and out
• Live and breathe Test-Driven Development - it's just how you work
• Proven experience implementing and managing real-time, bidirectional communication in React applications using WebSockets or similar protocols, including designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting WebSocket connections to support real-time data streams, notifications, or other interactive features
• Experience implementing WebSocket communications in React applications, with expertise in Redux state management for real-time data streams and interactive features
• Track record of making smart architectural decisions while shipping at startup speed
• History of building complex applications that scale

Nice to have:

• A developer who loves both architecting elegant solutions and getting their hands dirty building them
• Experience in early-stage environments where you've turned bold ideas into working products
• Strong product instincts and an eye for what makes great user experiences
• Excitement about applying AI to solve real business problems
• The ability to thrive in our fast-paced world where priorities shift as we learn
• A quality-first mindset, balancing pragmatism with maintainable patterns

Benefits & Perks:

• The opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, data, and eCommerce, helping shape the future of personalized online experience
• Competitive compensation packages
• Remote-first work environment.
• The opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, data, and eCommerce, helping shape the future of personalized online experiences.
• Stock options
• Robust benefits packages which include medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, as well as employer-paid life insurance, and short/long-term disability
• 401(k) with an employer match
• Unlimited Mental Health Teledoc appointments
• 2 weeks PTO / 5 Sick days for the 1st year, then unlimited thereafter
• Monthly wifi stipend
• Home office setup budget and yearly refresher 

Nacelle is committed to paying fairly and competitively which is why we partner with a salary and equity database company to ensure we are aligned with market rates. The salary estimate for this role is $150,000-$180,000, actual compensation will vary depending on candidates’ location and experience level.

If you meet most of the criteria for this position, we would still love to hear from you! We believe in fostering talent, growing and providing training to our team as we believe great human beings come first and building skillsets can happen over time.

Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment at Nacelle. We unfortunately are not able to provide employment sponsorship at this time.

Nacelle is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

Nacelle is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities who may require additional assistance in engaging in our application and interview process. Please feel free to reach out to Nacelle's Talent Acquisition Team if you need any assistance completing our application or need accommodations during your interview process.