Front End Product Engineer

October 22

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SaaS • Productivity • Enterprise

Obvious is a cloud-based workspace platform that centralizes tools and systems so professionals can manage work and produce higher-quality output from a single interface. Currently in alpha with early access, Obvious targets knowledge workers and teams seeking a unified, productivity-focused SaaS solution for organizing workflows, reducing context-switching, and improving collaboration.

11 - 50 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Drive full-stack feature development from conception to deployment, taking ownership of key product initiatives • Ship a lot of product and talk directly to users • Collaborate on design and implementation of user-facing features that improve user experience • Build robust, scalable, and performant web applications using modern frontend technologies • Implement complex React components: virtualized tables/lists, drag‑and‑drop editors, real‑time collaborative cursors/selections, rich text/data co‑authoring, and more. • Evolve our real‑time collaborative editing model for experiences with low‑latency, conflict‑aware UX. • Profile and improve app performance end‑to‑end: bundle strategy, render paths, memoization, concurrent features, scheduling, and network usage. • Shape new UI patterns for autonomous agents in work‑centric interfaces: intent visualization, agent transparency, corrective control, and multi‑agent collaboration. • Establish state‑of‑the‑art cross‑browser and cross‑device testing so our experiences “just work” every time. • Make clear trade‑offs balancing user experience, delivery speed, and business impact—and influence these decisions across the org.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience shipping production web apps with meaningful contributions to design, architecture, and performance. • Deep expertise in frontend technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and CSS (modern layout, animations, variables, architecture). • Hands‑on experience with complex UI problems: virtualization, drag‑and‑drop, real‑time collaboration, rich editors, canvas/WebGL, or data‑dense UIs. • Proven ability to optimize at the system level: asset pipelines, code‑splitting, hydration strategies, caching, and profiling. • End‑to‑end product development: ideation, product spec, prototyping, design partnership, implementation, and iteration. • Track record of raising the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence. • High autonomy and accountability; can do large amounts of meaningful work quickly with little oversight.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation—optimized for you and your future. • Meaningful equity—you’ll own a real piece of something that could be huge. • Founding team influence—your voice will shape direction. • Creative freedom—evolve and steer both current and future product identity. • Platform to shine—use Obvious’s reach to amplify your personal brand and design voice. • Room to grow—as we scale, opportunities are limitless. • In-person hackathons—we’re semi‑distributed and regularly meet in person to lock in and build together. • Excellent benefits—fully covered health, vision, and dental, 401k match, parental leave, home office stipend, and more. • Work comfortably—choose between a $10,000 home office makeover stipend or paid co-working spaces.