Sublime - Sr Frontend Engineer (TS, React)

About Sublime

Sublime is reimagining how we collect, connect, and create with the knowledge that matters most to us.

In a world where the average productivity tool feels like an airplane cockpit, we're building something that feels more like a yoga studio—clean, focused, and intentionally designed to help you think better.

What began as a thesis that traditional knowledge management tools were falling short has evolved into a thriving product with proven market fit. Our community has grown to 30,000+ of the internet's most interesting thinkers and creatives, including paying customers like the founders of Twitter and HubSpot. We've been featured in leading tech publications and are backed by Top VCs.

We're past the experimental phase—Sublime is a functioning, monetized product with significant traction. Now we're scaling something special, and you'll be joining at the perfect inflection point: early enough to have tremendous impact and ownership, with the stability and validation of a proven idea with a thriving community.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who sees code as a craft, not just a skill. Someone who obsesses over the implementation details that transform good experiences into sublime ones. Someone who understands that the 10px of padding, the milliseconds of animation timing, and the nuanced interaction states aren't just details—they're everything.

You embody what some might call a Design Engineer—living at the intersection of both engineering and design practices, using a broad understanding of both to build with significant autonomy, practice and teach great software craft, and elevate the final fidelity of what's made from start to end.

As our sole Frontend Engineer, you'll own our entire frontend ecosystem in our intentionally small team. We seek someone who embraces this high-responsibility role and is committed to the long game.

We want someone’s who’s in it for more than just the next line on their resume or their next paycheck. Someone excited to build something meaningful over years, grow alongside us, and share in the rewards as we create something extraordinary together.

What You’ll Do

• Craft exceptional UI experiences that feel alive, responsive, and delightful

• Collaborate deeply with design to eliminate the traditional handoff process, working iteratively in Figma and code

• Own and extend our design system, ensuring component reusability, consistency, and flexibility

• Build new features with beautiful and scalable UI components that achieve 100% fidelity from design to implementation

• Optimize performance at every level—from page load, in-app navigations, interactions and animations.

• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design throughout our product

• Explore and implement AI enhancements that augment our users' creative capabilities without getting in their way

• Work closely with our small, talented team to continually raise the bar for product excellence

What You Have

Must-Haves

• 7+ years of frontend development experience building complex web applications

• Deep expertise with modern React patterns and practices

• Strong eye for design details and interaction nuance

• Technical proficiency with:

  • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

  • React

  • TypeScript

  • Server side rendering (we use Remix)

• Experience building and maintaining design systems

• Ability to translate high-fidelity designs into pixel-perfect implementations

• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts clearly

• A portfolio or examples that demonstrate your attention to detail and craft

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with:

  • React Native

  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

  • Cloud services (S3, Vercel, Cloudflare)

  • Firebase

  • Web browser extensions

  • TanStack

• Knowledge of modern AI integrations in frontend experiences

• Experience with WebGL, Canvas, or other advanced visualization techniques

• Open source contributions

• Background in design or design systems

Interview Process

• Silver Screening Interview

• Silver Technical Interview

• Client Screening Interview

• Client Technical Interview

• Take Home Challenge.

• Client Behavioral Interview