Staff Frontend Engineer, Core

at Trellis Company

Job description

Trellis is a profitable, fast-growing Series A startup backed by top investors like General Catalyst, QED, NYCA, and Amex Ventures.

Our mission: make shopping for home and auto insurance faster, smarter, and easier for everyday Americans. Powered by ML and GenAI, we help people find better insurance — saving them time, money, and stress.

We’re fully remote, built for speed, and led by a third-time fintech founder with a track record of building public companies.

If you move fast, take ownership, and care about your craft, you’ll thrive here.

Position Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Core Engineering team, you’ll be joining the “brains” behind our insurance marketplace. This team powers the logic that takes an insurance shopper’s data and turns it into personalized, high-converting recommendations.

As the second frontend engineer, you’ll do more than just code - you’ll shape our frontend roadmap, initiate new projects, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering to execute on strategic initiatives. You’ll lead development across both internal tools and customer-facing applications, bring strong project ownership, guide architectural decisions, and ensure our systems scale effectively as our company grows.

Who You Are

  • Meticulous: You pay attention to detail and take pride in what you deliver
  • Articulate: You succinctly and effectively communicate verbal and written technical and non-technical ideas and topics
  • Kind, not (just) nice: You provide tough feedback in a clear and concise manner that does not diminish or belittle the recipient
  • Opinionated: You bring strong opinions to discussions but are willing to change your mind when presented with new or better information
  • Product-minded: You focus on the “why” just as much as the “what” or “how”
  • Collaborative: You work within your team and cross-functionally to build consensus and achieve results
  • Autonomous: You are self-motivated, able to hold yourself accountable, and can generate high-value work with little direct supervision

What You’ll Do

  • Flesh out and evolve the frontend roadmap alongside product and technical leadership
  • Own high-impact projects that drive user experience and business outcomes
  • Lead development of both internal and external interfaces - from internal tools and dashboards to user-facing experiences and our website
  • Conceptualize and implement experiments to improve usability, reduce friction, and optimize conversion
  • Optimize the customer intake flow to deliver a more intuitive and efficient experience
  • Work with internal customers to iterate quickly and deliver value for our growing insurance agency
  • Drive momentum and clarity across initiatives through strong project ownership
  • Contribute across the stack as needed, including backend services, API integrations, and data-related features
  • Collaborate with other developers on your team, providing feedback on their solutions, reviewing their code, and ensuring quality
  • Ensure scalability and performance across the platform as we continue to grow

What You’ll Need

While you don’t need all of these to be successful in this role, we think you’ll be more successful the more you have

  • 7+ years of experience building fullstack applications with a focus on the frontend
  • Deep production experience with React and Typescript
  • Proven ability to lead projects from conception to execution
  • Attention to detail and product-mindedness shaping intuitive user experiences for internal and external customers
  • Experience building both internal tools and customer-facing interfaces
  • Ability to adapt across the stack and contribute to backend or data work when needed
  • Strong UX sensibility and user empathy, especially when building for non-technical users
  • Data-driven approach with interest in experimentation and product analytics
  • Experience influencing product direction and decision-making

Please Note: We will begin reviewing applications for this role on August 11th.

Trellis is a fantastic place to work

Join a talented, passionate team:

  • Flat, collaborative, transparent culture; get in at the ground floor and be a true business partner
  • Opportunities for growth and development within your role and all areas of the organization
  • 75th-percentile (competitive!) compensation
  • 100% remote work environment
  • Quarterly, fun team bonding events

Trellis additionally offers competitive benefits:

  • Unlimited vacation time
  • 100% employer-paid Platinum-tier health insurance for employee, 65% for dependents
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Bonuses and equity opportunities
  • Budget for home office equipment
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