Founding Staff Frontend Software Engineer

Bengaluru
Engineering /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
Zuma is pioneering the future of customer interactions with our AI-driven leasing agent, Kelsey, transforming the rental market experience for consumers and property manager alike. Our innovative platform is crafted from the ground up, integrating artificial intelligence, machine learning, to boost sales conversions and enhance support capabilities for property management business across the country. As one of Los Angeles's fastest-growing startups, Zuma has over +17M in funding and support from world-renowned investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, King River, Range Ventures, and distinguished angel investors like YC’s former COO, Qasar Younis.

With our headquarters in Los Angeles, USA, Zuma sells its product nationally and is scaling rapidly. Achieving our vision requires a team of passionate, innovative individuals eager to leverage technology to redefine customer-business interactions. We're on the hunt for exceptional talent ready to join our mission and contribute to building a groundbreaking technology that reshapes how businesses engage with customers. Join us in our journey to revolutionize the rental industry and beyond, making seamless, AI-enhanced interactions the new standard.

Zuma is seeking a pioneering Staff Frontend Engineer to join our team in Bangalore and revolutionize our frontend systems. As our most senior frontend developer, you will set the tone for our engineering culture and lead the charge in developing top-tier frontend practices and architecture. You will spearhead critical projects for our UI/UX and customer onboarding teams, focused on our Large Language Model (LLM) based AI leasing agent and its configuration.
This position is a leadership role, where you will mentor and collaborate with a diverse group of engineers, contributing to their growth and enabling them to excel.

Responsibilities

    • Designing and developing sophisticated frontend software solutions to configure our Large Language models (LLMs) and customer third-party CRM integration experience.
    • Creating a beautiful and seamless self-serve experience to onboard customers onto our platform and ensure all integrations are working smoothly
    • Scaling frontend infrastructure with modern technologies and frameworks
    • Pioneering our design system framework
    • Ensuring robustness and scalability by leading best practices for testing, architecture, and code quality in frontend development
    • Driving team execution with agile or similar development practices
    • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and implement software requirements for the frontend
    • Providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior and senior team members, including engineers based across the world in India
    • Working closely with our product and design team to align with customer asks and solve customer problems

Qualifications

    • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field
    • Minimum of 10 years of experience in frontend software development
    • Excellent English communication skills and experience collaborating with customer-facing product teams
    • Experience leading or managing technical teams
    • Working knowledge of Javascript, HTML, CSS, and Typescript
    • Strong proficiency in frontend languages and frameworks such as ReactJS, NextJS, VueJS, AngularJS, and NodeJS
    • Extensive experience with frontend technologies and architectures
    • Experience working with LLMs and supporting LLM architectures at scale is a plus
    • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
    • Startup experience and a scrappy/flexible mindset