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The Role
Lead front-end UI/UX engineering for a hyperscale data warehouse using TypeScript, React, and Python. Architect scalable interfaces, establish coding standards, integrate REST APIs and SQL databases, and translate designs from Figma into intuitive product experiences. Serve as the technical UI/UX authority across Product, Engineering, and Design; lead reviews and architecture discussions; use AI coding agents; and mentor junior engineers.
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About Ocient:
Ocient is building OcientAIQ™ – a complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale, for the organizations that can't afford to get AI wrong. Our customers protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy. The problems we solve are genuinely hard, and the work matters.
Founded in 2016 by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM in 2015), Ocient is headquartered in Chicago with a remote-first global team. We are a carbon-neutral company backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Buoyant Ventures.
Job Title: Senior UI/UX Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (India Based Only)
Hiring Manager: Director of Engineering
Estimated salary range: INR 2,500,000.00 to INR 4,000,000.00
- The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Position Overview:
The Senior UI/UX Engineer is a high-impact individual contributor at Ocient who leads the implementation of UI/UX efforts for Ocient’s cutting-edge hyperscale data warehouse, working with industry-leading product architects and top-tier Product Managers to define and deliver the value Ocient brings to customers through its product experience. This role blends strong front-end engineering expertise with an eye for design and a passion for solving hard problems — setting the bar for high-quality code, creating and enforcing coding guidelines, architecture, and best practices, and interfacing across teams to drive UI/UX excellence. The Senior UI/UX Engineer is a trusted technical leader, a developer of junior talent, and a key contributor to Ocient’s product quality and customer experience.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the implementation of UI/UX efforts for Ocient’s hyperscale data warehouse platform, architecting scalable, maintainable front-end systems using TypeScript, React, and Python.
- Utilize AI-assistance and coding agents (Claude) to increase efficiency through architecture, design, development, and workflow management.
- Set the bar for high-quality code by creating and enforcing coding guidelines, front- end architecture patterns, and UI/UX best practices across the engineering organization.
- Work with design tools such as Figma to implement beautiful, streamlined UI/UX experiences that translate complex data platform capabilities into intuitive product interfaces.
- Interface across teams — including Product Management, Engineering, and Design — as the primary UI/UX technical authority, aligning on requirements, architecture, and product direction.
- Interact with REST APIs and SQL databases to build robust, performant front-end integrations that leverage Ocient’s backend data platform capabilities.
- Lead code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical design sessions, driving high-quality engineering decisions across the UI/UX codebase.
- Mentor UI/UX Engineer I and II contributors, supporting their technical growth and elevating front-end engineering quality across the team.
Ideal Qualifications:
Experience:
- 4+ years of industry experience writing code to build scalable, maintainable user interfaces in a professional software engineering environment.
- 1+ year of industry experience working with design tools such as Figma to implement streamlined UI/UX experiences.
Functional/Technical Skills:
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Python with a track record of leading production-quality front-end engineering at scale.
- Demonstrable experience utilizing AI tools and agents to efficiently produce quality designs and software using structured prompts and context files.
- Strong technical leadership and communication skills with the ability to lead the UI team, interface across teams, set the bar for high-quality code, and create and enforce coding guidelines and architecture.
- Experience using Git for version control and leading collaborative software development workflows.
- Experience interacting with REST APIs and SQL databases from a front-end engineering perspective.
- A portfolio of previous work including code samples demonstrating front-end engineering quality and design sensibility.
An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience working with high-performance, distributed systems and databases.
- Experience with full-stack development, particularly in Java or C++.
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience using and building code components for an enterprise-scale design system.
- Experience using Playwright or other UI testing framework.
Interview Requirements: All interviews are conducted via video and require candidates to have their camera on for the duration of the session. The use of video filters, face-altering effects, or virtual backgrounds is not permitted for security and verification purposes.
We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Ocient is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, parental status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please contact [email protected] for more information.
All official Ocient job postings and recruiting communications will come directly from our team via our Careers page, LinkedIn, or from an ocient.com email address. If you receive communication about a role from any other source, please treat it with caution and direct questions to [email protected].
Skills Required
- 4+ years of professional experience building scalable, maintainable user interfaces
- 1+ year of experience using design tools such as Figma to implement UI/UX experiences
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Python
- Experience using AI tools and coding agents with structured prompts and context files
- Strong technical leadership and communication skills
- Experience with Git and collaborative software development workflows
- Experience interacting with REST APIs and SQL databases from a front-end perspective
- Portfolio with front-end code samples demonstrating engineering quality and design sensibility
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience with high-performance distributed systems and databases
- Full-stack development experience, particularly in Java or C++
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience building or using enterprise-scale design system components
- Experience with Playwright or another UI testing framework
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The Company
What We Do
Ocient is a Chicago-based, venture-funded startup building a SQL compliant, exabyte-scale database platform that achieves better performance than Hadoop and NoSQL systems. It is a distributed system optimized for NVMe drives, RDMA networks and high core count processors and is written in C++. We are led by a management team with seven successful st
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