Software Engineer - Frontend

About the role

Collaborating closely with our dynamic team of product designers and engineers, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the foundation of frontend at Helsing. You'll not only lead by example, but also spearhead the development and expansion of a tight-knit team that works across a wide-range of internal teams and products. Your primary emphasis will be on enhancing usability, creating re-usable foundations for multiple front-ends and optimising the end-user experience across the entire company.

What you'll do

• Review code contributions, proposals, and RFCs from colleagues — unblocking others takes precedence over spending more time on your own work.
• Own the user interface end-to-end, from early wireframes and prototypes through to performant, production-ready code, working closely with product and UX colleagues.
• Propose and implement new features, capabilities, tooling, visualizations, or even full products across our stack.
• Establish and evolve our React component library, ensuring consistency, reusability, and alignment with our visual design standards across multiple front-ends.
• Contribute to establishing our frontend engineering standards and build or adopt tools that help enforce them.
• Become a mentor, find a mentee, and help support and develop our interviewing pipeline.
• Connect with, understand, and make changes to backend systems as needed (primarily Rust).
• Present your work at our weekly demo sessions.

What you'll need

• Ability to write legible, maintainable, and performant frontend code — ideally using TypeScript and React.
• Experience with APIs and server-client communication like REST and GraphQL.
• Experience with running live production software.
• Comfortable working with unfamiliar backends, ideally with some exposure to languages like Rust.
• Strong communication skills in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Comfortable working asynchronously (writing PRs and RFCs, having discussions by email).
• Passion for staying on top of current development best practices, libraries, and frameworks.

What they offer

• Direct contribution to the protection of democratic countries
• Unique technical challenges at the state of the art in reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, and deployment infrastructure
• Healthy, proactive internal debate about what the company does and how it chooses to do it