Sr. Software Engineer I

Conductor is a leading Website Optimization & Intelligence platform. Today’s top brands use Conductor to create and optimize digital experiences that get found organically in search engines and drive value for customers. The platform provides actionable SEO, content, and technical website intelligence paired with real-time website monitoring to help customers accelerate—and protect—digital growth.

Conductor is a mission-driven company with a commitment to innovation, customer success, and culture. For Conductor, success is improving the lives of all the people in our orbit—our customers, our customers' customers, our employee-owners, and our communities.

We are looking for a talented Senior Front-end Engineer to join our dynamic AI feature team. Reporting directly to the Engineering Director, you will be a pivotal player in building out our next generation of generative AI content features, agentic workflows, and other modern AI-powered capabilities. The ideal candidate is passionate about creating elegant user interfaces and brings a strong product sense to the table. You will be instrumental in shaping the user-facing aspects of our most innovative products, turning complex AI interactions into seamless and engaging experiences.

 What you'll do (Responsibilities):

• Craft elegant and user-friendly front-end experiences using React and TypeScript.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, UX designers, and fellow engineers to define technical requirements and deliver scalable, high-impact solutions.
• Engage in thoughtful code reviews, promoting clean, maintainable, and high-quality code.
• Support and guide junior engineers, helping to cultivate a culture of learning and collaboration.
• Drive continuous improvement by contributing to engineering best practices and development workflows.
• Take full ownership of the front-end development lifecycle, from concept and technical design to implementation and deployment.

Who you are (Required Skills/Abilities):

• 5+ years of experience in front-end development, with at least 3 years in building scalable and secure SaaS application platforms and systems for intelligent applications.
• Expert-level proficiency in React and TypeScript.
• Experience with data visualization libraries, such as chars.js and D3.js, is a plus.
• Comfortable using design tools like Figma or Sketch to collaborate with designers.
• Familiarity with microfrontend architectures.
• Deep understanding of modern front-end technologies, including state management, component libraries, and build tools.
• Proven experience building complex, interactive, and high-performance user interfaces.
• Strong product mindset, with a genuine curiosity to understand user needs, challenge assumptions, and shape product direction through thoughtful input.
• You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments, taking initiative, owning outcomes, and communicating effectively across teams.
• Experience with generative AI, LLMs, or other ML technologies is a plus.
• Ability to work from our NYC HQ 2x a week (Mondays & Thursdays)

Why Join Our Team?

This is a unique opportunity to work on the cutting edge of AI and directly influence the products that will define the future of our industry. You will have the autonomy to make significant technical decisions and the support of a brilliant, collaborative team. If you are driven by innovation and want to build features that feel like magic to our users, we want to hear from you.

Resources:

To learn more about our approach and current design system, please explore:

• Bricks Design System Portal
• Bricks Storybook

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Compensation: Conductor maintains competitive, performance-based compensation programs. 

The NYC base salary range for this role is currently $108,000 - $150,000. Placement within that range will be dependent on experience.

Benefits: Conductor offers the following attractive benefits and perks including: 100% covered employee medical plan, a dental & vision plans, 401(k) with employer contribution, an unlimited vacation policy, 10 sick days, short-term disability, long-term disability, generous paid parental leave, employee assistance program, flexible savings accounts, paid holidays, life and accidental death insurance, and a host of perks.

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