Staff Engineer - UI

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 or follow us on LinkedIn.

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