This is a hybrid role based in Burlingame, CA with the team working together in-person 2 days per week.

About Galileo

Galileo is the leading platform for Gen AI evaluation and observability, with a mission to democratize building safe, reliable and robust applications in the new era of AI powered software development. Our foundation is built on pioneering the early technology behind the world's most ubiquitous AI applications including Apple's Siri and Google Speech. We firmly believe that AI developers require meticulously crafted, research-driven tools to create trustworthy and high-quality generative AI applications that will revolutionize our work and lifestyle.

Galileo addresses the complexities inherent in implementing, evaluating, and monitoring GenAI applications, optimizing the development process for both individual developers and teams by offering a comprehensive platform that spans the full AI development lifecycle. Galileo bridges critical gaps, significantly enhancing developers' ability to refine and deploy reliable and precise GenAI applications.

Since its inception, Galileo has rapidly gained traction, serving Fortune 100 banks, Fortune 50 telecom companies, as well as AI teams at prominent organizations such as Reddit and Headspace Health, among dozens of others.

Galileo has AI research at its core, with the founders coming from Google and Uber where they solved challenging AI/ML problems in the Speech, Evaluation and ML Infra domains. It is now a Series B business backed by tier 1 investors including Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, and Databricks Ventures, with $68M in total funding. We are headquartered in San Francisco with locations such as New York and Bangalore, India forming our areas of future growth.

Role Description

As an early Frontend Engineer at Galileo, you will play a foundational role in designing, building, and scaling our products for AI reliability. You will: 

• Develop and Maintain High-Performance Web Applications: Design and implement responsive, scalable, and optimized web applications using Next.js, React, & TypeScript.
• Optimize for Speed and Efficiency: Focus on reducing load times, improving application responsiveness, and enhancing the user experience by employing techniques like code-splitting, lazy loading, and server-side rendering.
• Enhance Code Quality and Maintainability: Write clean, modular, and well-documented code with attention to maintainability and scalability.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with backend developers, UI/UX designers, and product managers to deliver cohesive, user-centered applications.
• Troubleshoot and Debug: Identify and resolve performance issues, memory leaks, and bugs to ensure application stability and efficiency.
• Develop and Maintain CI/CD Pipelines: Set up automated testing, build, and deployment processes to streamline the development workflow and maintain high code quality.
• Implement Testing and Quality Assurance: Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using tools like Jest, Playwright, and React Testing Library to ensure code reliability and functionality.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building UI for customer facing products.
• Experience with React and Next JS.
• A very strong background and experience with TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Experience building frontends for data products.
• Worked with React extensively and know the best tools in the ecosystem to manage state, hooks, component libraries, events, and content effectively.
• Experience building clear API-Client interfaces and enjoy working with product, backend, and design team members to build an awesome product.
• Extensive experience with git and GitHub – it’s almost second nature for you.
• A startup mindset, biasing towards thoughtful action with minimal direction. 

Preferred Qualifications

• You have deployed frontend applications to AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure (both dynamic and static frontend applications)
• Experience rapidly prototyping with Figma to exchange ideas with backend, design, and product team members