Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Foundation

4w4 weeks ago

Front

San Francisco, US · Full-time · $177,000 – $203,700

About this role

Front is the customer operations platform built for B2B complexity, keeping every team, tool, and customer conversation in sync so companies can scale without losing connection. Over 9,000 companies, including Uber Freight, Navan, and Stripe, rely on Front because it's the only one that can run the operational layer that makes customer-facing work succeed.

As a Software Engineer on the Foundations team, you'll work at the intersection of platform engineering and developer experience. You won't be building features end users click on — you'll be building the systems that make those features possible, from our event-driven task queue to our CI/CD infrastructure and database ORM.

This team owns the frameworks, libraries, and internal systems that power Front's backend, enabling the rest of engineering to move fast and build with confidence. You'll collaborate closely with other engineering teams to understand their pain points, establish shared patterns, and drive adoption of new frameworks.

If you're energized by designing for scale, eliminating friction across engineering teams, and setting the architectural patterns that an entire company relies on, this role is for you. You'll influence Front's backend architecture and the engineering-wide standards that flow from it.

Requirements

Backend JavaScript/TypeScript engineering experience — this role is not focused on frontend development
Experience building and maintaining shared frameworks, libraries, or internal tooling for engineering teams
Strong understanding of reliability, observability, and performance in distributed systems
Experience with event-driven architectures, task queues, or batch job frameworks
Ability to navigate ambiguity and define the right problems to solve
Experience influencing engineering-wide standards and architectural patterns

Responsibilities

Building and maintaining shared backend frameworks, libraries, and internal tooling used by engineering teams across Front
Designing and implementing systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance — including our task queue, batch job framework, database ORM, and real-time event infrastructure
Owning and evolving our CI/CD systems, ensuring fast, reliable, and safe delivery pipelines
Collaborating closely with other engineering teams to understand their pain points, establish shared patterns, and drive adoption of new frameworks
Influencing Front's backend architecture and the engineering-wide standards that flow from it
Navigating ambiguity, defining the right problems to solve, and delivering solutions of significant complexity

Benefits

Backed by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Ventures with $204M in funding
Recognized as a Great Place to Work, including Built In's 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in SF 2025
Named #4 on Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area
Listed on Forbes Best Startup Employers 2022 List