Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Rapid Prototyping Leader)

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Frontend Development • $202,000 PA - $238,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Semgrep is seeking a Staff Frontend Software Engineer to lead rapid prototyping efforts. This role involves building and enhancing critical frontend workflows, operating with a high degree of autonomy, and driving improvements with minimal oversight. Responsibilities include partnering with engineering, product, and design leaders, shipping quarterly high-quality improvements to customer-facing workflows (e.g., onboarding, vulnerability triage, AI interaction), and elevating frontend excellence across the company. The engineer will be a significant contributor to the component library strategy, engage with designers to address UI/UX gaps, mentor junior engineers, and participate in customer research.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Expertise in React
  • Obsessive about UI/UX
  • Capable of determining a personal roadmap with high business impact
  • Comfortable making backend Python changes
  • Comfortable running simple Postgres migrations
  • Optimistic and early adopter of AI tools for frontend development
Good to have:
  • Comfortable operating as a junior designer
  • Local to SF Bay Area or NYC (in office 2x/week)
Perks:
  • Equity and benefits in addition to salary
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Generous vacation time
  • 401k
  • Learning stipends

Job Details

About Semgrep

Semgrep is on a mission to make it expensive to exploit software. As the team behind the most popular SAST, we built the Semgrep AppSec Platform to deliver industry-leading code, dependency, and secrets scanning to enable organizations to ship secure code quickly without slowing down development. 

With fast, customizable code analysis across large codebases, Semgrep helps teams catch vulnerabilities early and fix them faster. Leading companies like Snowflake, Plaid, Figma, Lyft, and Dropbox rely on Semgrep to secure their software.

Semgrep is funded by top investors, including Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.

About the role

As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer you will report directly to one of our engineering leaders and you will be responsible for building and improving our most important frontend workflows. You’ll be expected to operate with an extremely high degree of autonomy and be capable of improving critical workflows with limited oversight and lo-fi mocks from designers.

You will:

  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders throughout the company
  • Ship a high-quality improvement to a critical workflow roughly once/quarter
    • e.g. customer onboarding, how customers triage findings, and how they interact with our AI capabilities
  • Uplevel frontend excellence across the company
    • Significant contributor to the long-term strategy of our component library. You’ve never worked somewhere where you didn’t leave the component library better than you found it.
    • Meet frequently with designers to understand our largest UI/UX gaps
  • Mentor less senior frontend engineers throughout the company
  • Participate in customer research

You are ideal for this role if:

  • 7+ years software engineering experience
  • Very optimistic and an early adopter of using AI tools for frontend development
  • Capable of determining a personal roadmap with high business impact
  • React expert
  • Comfortable making backend Python changes and running simple Postgres migrations
  • Obsessive about UI/UX
    • Comfortable operating as a junior designer
  • Local to SF Bay Area or NYC (in office 2x/week) - Very nice to have, but not req’d

Compensation

Salary Range: $ 202,000-238,000

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

What we offer

Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure they’re above the average for comparable roles.

We also invest in our employees’ well-being and long term success with comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyone, so that you’re taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure they have what they need, whether that’s quiet work space, adjusted hours, or something else.

Who we are

We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.

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