Staff Frontend Software Engineer

About Orum

Orum’s AI-powered suite frees salespeople to do what they do best: connect, listen, and sell. Our products gives sales teams everything they need to connect faster, sell smarter, and grow revenue. From intelligent dialing and real-time conversation insights to AI-driven coaching and virtual sales floors, Orum is powering thousands of sales teams to have more meaningful conversations and turn every call into measurable impact. Companies who use Orum connect 5x faster and book millions in new pipeline every month.

As a company, we are a remote-first team of builders and dreamers creating a future where work feels more meaningful and connected. If you’re excited to change how the world sells, join us. For more information, visit https://www.orum.com/

We are seeking a Staff/Sr Staff Frontend Software Engineer to lead the architecture, standards, and systems that power the user interface layer across our real-time, high-scale platform. You will drive the long-term vision for our frontend ecosystem—building the foundational design system, shared component libraries, tooling, performance frameworks, and accessibility standards that enable all product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.

This role is deeply technical and highly collaborative. You will act as a force multiplier for UI development across the company, partnering closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams, to establish a cohesive, high-performance frontend foundation. As a Staff-level engineer, you will mentor and influence engineers across teams, lead cross-functional technical initiatives, and play a critical part in our UI Developer Experience (DevEx) strategy.

If you are passionate about frontend architecture, design systems, developer experience, performance, and building elegant, scalable interfaces, you will thrive in this role.

Frontend Architecture & Systems Design

• Define and lead the architecture of our frontend ecosystem, focusing on scalability, performance, and maintainability.

• Own and evolve our unified design system, component library, and UI patterns in partnership with Design.

Developer Experience & Tooling

• Improve developer velocity through standardized tooling, templates, build pipelines, and testing frameworks.

• Establish and document frontend best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.

UI Quality, Performance & Accessibility

• Set and enforce performance budgets, accessibility standards, and UI quality benchmarks.

• Integrate automated testing (unit, integration, visual, accessibility) into CI workflows.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Impact

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality user experiences.

• Mentor and influence engineers across teams, driving adoption of shared systems and frontend excellence.

• Lead cross-team initiatives that modernize the frontend stack and improve product delivery velocity.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on frontend development.

• Expert-level proficiency with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and modern front-end architectures.

• Demonstrated experience building or leading design systems, component libraries, or UI platforms used across multiple product teams.

• Strong knowledge of performance optimization, accessibility (WCAG), responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.

• Deep familiarity with frontend tooling (Webpack, Vite, Turborepo, ESLint, Storybook) and testing frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Jest, RTL).

• Proven ability to lead technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and drive adoption of standards.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

• Experience working in high-scale, low-latency, or real-time UI environments.

• Strong understanding of design workflows using Figma and design-to-code alignment.

• Experience with monorepos, shared library versioning, and package architecture.

• Experience contributing to or building open-source UI frameworks or design systems.

• Prior experience improving developer experience or UI platform capabilities.

• Experience with data visualization, real-time collaboration patterns, and offline-first strategies.

• Experience with data visualization, real-time collaboration patterns, and offline-first strategies.

• Experience in high-scale, real-time domains (telephony, streaming media, or analogous event-driven systems).

• Familiarity with our broader stack: NodeJS with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Ruby, GCP, and FreeSWITCH.

• Remote-first within the United States, collaborating across time zones with strong async habits.

• Engineering, Product, and Design partner as equals; we value simplicity, clarity, and fast, iterative delivery.

• NodeJS + TypeScript; React; PostgreSQL; Google Cloud Platform; FreeSWITCH.

• Remote within the United States (this role is not open outside the U.S. at this time).

• Base salary range: $225,000–$300,000, commensurate with experience.

• Flexibility to work anywhere in the U.S.

• Flexible Vacation Policy.

• Orum Days Off (first Friday each month, two weeks off at year end, and additional observed holidays).

• 90% coverage for employees and dependents for medical, dental, and vision.

• Online behavioral health and virtual healthcare options.

• Parental leave with quota relief.

• Life Insurance and AD&D coverage.

• 401(k) savings plan.

• Meaningful stock options.

• $1,000 equipment reimbursement (yours to keep).

• Company retreats and meetups to connect in person.

• Company ERG — Women of Orum (WOO).

Orum Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

We're committed to continually adding to our diverse team that represents various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. In short, we want you to join in on the ride if you're talented for one of our roles, with no other qualifiers.