Software Engineer - Front End

Distyl AI develops AI native technologies for humans & AI to collaborate and power the operations of the Global Fortune 1000.

In just 24 months, we’ve rapidly grown to partner with some of the world’s largest enterprises—including F100 telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and retail companies—delivering multiple AI deployments with $100M+ impact. Our platform, Distillery, along with our team of AI Engineers, Researchers, and Strategists, is pioneering AI-native systems of work, solving the most complex, high-stakes challenges at scale.

Distyl is founded and led by proven leaders from companies like Palantir, Apple, and top national laboratories. We work in deep partnership with OpenAI, jointly going-to-market at the largest enterprises and collaborating evaluating and testing the latest models. Backed by Lightspeed, Khosla, Coatue, industry leaders like Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO), as well as board members of over 20+ F500s, Distyl is building the future of AI-powered enterprise operations.

What We Are Looking For: We’re looking for experienced Front End Engineers who are excited to define the future of work with a focus on human value. You will build the UI/UX patterns in which AI is deployed and used by the world’s most important institutions. As a member of our FE engineering team, your day to day will vary from writing code, collaborating with product and design on defining our products, and building core engineering infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Building Enterprise Grade Frontend Applications: You will collaborate closely with the rest of our team to deliver high quality frontend applications.

2. Solution Design: Collaborate closely Distyl AI Strategists to deeply understand customer’s workflows and design tailored AI solutions.

3. End-to-End Software Ownership: Take charge of the entire software lifecycle, from service development to deploying them in customer cloud environments.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of fulltime software engineering experience

• Experience building production systems at scale (enterprise/B2B applications or customer-facing, high-volume pages)

• Track record of technical ownership (led features/projects end-to-end, drove technical decisions)

• Expert in React/TypeScript. Some backend experience in Python is beneficial and experience with AI/ML is helpful.

• User Empathy and Customer Focus: A deep sense of user empathy and a customer-obsessed approach, ensuring that solutions are not only technically sound but also closely aligned with customer needs and experiences.

• An Eye for Design: We often build before pixel perfect mocks are built, being able to make a reasonable design choice within the design system is key.

• Software Architecture: Demonstrated ability in architecting frontend applications for better scalability is critical.

Nice to have

• Product Experience: B2B/enterprise products, client-facing work, startup experience

• FE Infrastructure: CI/CD, Webpack/Vite, cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure), observability tools

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including equity options and healthcare.

• Be part of a mission-oriented company to create practical adoption during the biggest revolution in human productivity.

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technologies and make a real impact on the adoption of LLMs in the enterprise space.

• Collaborative and supportive work environment, with a strong focus on personal and professional growth.

• Exposure to a diverse range of real-world industries and projects, providing unique challenges and learning opportunities.

• Chance to be part of a growing team that is passionate about AI and its potential to revolutionize human productivity.

Note: Distyl is a hybrid working environment and requires in-office collaboration 3 days (Tue - Thu) a week. We have offices in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY, and this role is available in either location.