Frontend Engineer

Posted 2 Days Ago
Chicago, IL, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Information Technology • Software • Analytics
The Role
Build and optimize a canvas-based browser app ingesting and visualizing large data streams. Architect data pipelines, rendering loops, and memory-constrained solutions. Implement performance-critical UI using TypeScript, Canvas/WebGL/DOM, low-level web APIs, workers, and potentially WebAssembly. Measure and tune rendering, memory, and responsiveness.
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About yeet

yeet is built by a tight-knit group of systems, observability, and kernel nerds who refuse to accept “mystery outages” as normal. We’re a small, high-impact team with domain expertise in Linux, eBPF, performance instrumentation, and developer tooling.

We move fast, ship often, and take deep ownership. If you enjoy operating close to the metal, building tools that real engineers lean on during 3 AM incident sprints, and solving hard problems with minimal overhead, you’ll feel right at home here.

About the role

We’re looking for a Frontend Engineer to push the limits of what’s possible in the browser.

yeet’s UI is a canvas-based app that ingests and visualizes huge streams of data. That means thinking beyond the usual component frameworks: Architecting solutions with data pipelines, rendering loops, and memory constraints in mind.

You’ll be closer to the browser’s low-level engine than most frontend roles, making decisions that directly impact how engineers experience yeet in the mid-incident.

About you
  • You’ve built performance-critical frontends where smooth rendering and responsiveness weren’t optional.

  • You know when React helps and when to drop down to Canvas, WebGL, or raw DOM-manipulations for speed.

  • You have a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms.

  • You write expressive TypeScript and use the type system to catch bugs before they ship.

  • You’re fluent in low-level web APIs (e.g. OPFS, OffscreenCanvas, Web Workers) and nerd out over the MDN docs.

  • You’re motivated by measurable performance: frame budgets, memory profiles, flame-graphs, not just “it feels fast.”

Nice To Haves
  • Experience with WebAssembly (WASM) for accelerating data-heavy or compute-bound tasks in the browser.

  • Familiarity with bundling and build tooling (Webpack, Vite, Rollup) to optimize large-scale apps.

  • Background in usability / UX for data-dense applications — making complex interactions intuitive without sacrificing power.

  • Deep knowledge of React internals including how the scheduler works and when to bypass it.

Skills Required

  • Experience building performance-critical frontends where smooth rendering and responsiveness were essential
  • Knowledge of when to use React and when to use Canvas, WebGL, or raw DOM manipulations
  • Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms
  • Proficient in expressive TypeScript and using types to prevent bugs
  • Fluency with low-level web APIs such as OPFS, OffscreenCanvas, and Web Workers
  • Motivated by measurable performance (frame budgets, memory profiles, flame graphs)
  • Experience with WebAssembly (WASM)
  • Familiarity with bundling and build tooling (Webpack, Vite, Rollup)
  • Background in usability/UX for data-dense applications
  • Deep knowledge of React internals and scheduler behavior
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The Company
16 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

yeet builds a high-performance monitoring and system-analysis platform for Linux environments, from cloud to edge. Its toolkit uses low-level kernel and eBPF instrumentation to collect, filter, and visualize real-time system data, helping engineers identify bottlenecks, anomalies, application behavior, GPU activity, and performance issues. The company also presents yeet as a JavaScript runtime for Linux operations, combining developer tooling with observability and profiling capabilities.

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