Staff Frontend Engineer (NYC)

Carter Wellington is partnering with a venture-backed NYC technology company building a deeply technical product used by fast-growing teams operating at scale.

This is a role for engineers who care about craft, product impact, and technical ownership,  not just shipping tickets.

You’ll work on complex frontend systems where performance, architecture, and user experience genuinely matter. The team moves quickly, values strong opinions, and hires engineers who want to build, iterate, and solve meaningful problems alongside highly capable peers.

If you’ve thrived at high-bar startups or companies with strong engineering cultures, you’ll feel at home here.

What You’ll Work On

• Shipping production features end-to-end with real ownership.
• Building modern, performant interfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Solving hard frontend problems involving data-heavy workflows and real-time interactions.
• Collaborating closely with design and product to shape system behaviour,not just implementation.
• Working directly with technical stakeholders to understand real-world use cases.
• Contributing to architectural decisions as the product scales.

Who This Role Is Designed For

• Engineers with 3–5 years of experience in high-quality engineering environments.
• Builders who have driven meaningful impact, not just maintained systems.
• People comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly without heavy process.
• Engineers who think beyond UI systems thinking is important here.

Typical backgrounds include:

• Venture-backed startups with strong engineering cultures.
• Product-driven SaaS companies.
• Engineers who have worked close to customers or implementations (forward deployed mindset).
• Former founders or early employees are strongly encouraged.

Technical Expectations

• Strong TypeScript engineering skills.
• Deep experience with React and modern web architecture.
• Experience shipping production systems using Next.js or similar frameworks.
• Ability to reason about performance, scalability, and frontend architecture.
• Experience integrating APIs and SDKs.

Bonus signals:

• Real-time collaboration systems, CRDTs, or complex state management.
• Chrome extensions or advanced browser-based tooling.
• Workflow builders or automation platforms.
• Experience working with typed API specifications (OpenAPI, Conjure, Smithy).

Signals We Look For

• You can show something you’re genuinely proud of building.
• Your GitHub or portfolio shows consistent ownership or curiosity.
• You communicate clearly and enjoy solving problems live with technical customers.
• You want to grow into deeper technical leadership or potentially founding something yourself.

Location

NYC

About Carter Wellington

Carter Wellington partners with high-growth technology companies to identify exceptional engineers who thrive in high-ownership environments. We work closely with founding teams to find builders who want to shape products, not just contribute to them.