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Frontend Developer

HeronAI

HeronAI

Software Engineering
Buffalo, NY, USA
Posted on Jun 12, 2025

What You’ll Do

  • Develop and maintain user-facing features.
  • Collaborate closely with backend engineers to integrate APIs and optimize data flow for large-scale dashboards.
  • Design scalable, reusable UI components that enhance the user experience.
  • Work closely with customers and stakeholders to ensure our platform is intuitive and meets real-world needs.
  • Optimize applications for speed and responsiveness, ensuring compatibility across devices and browsers.
  • Contribute to design system development, maintaining consistency across our platform.
  • Implement security best practices to protect user data and maintain compliance standards like SOC 2.
  • Create intuitive, accessible, and responsive interfaces, ensuring compatibility across devices and browsers.
  • Implement testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress) to ensure high-quality and bug-free user experiences.
  • Incorporate UI/UX design best practices, improving usability for accounting and fintech customers.
  • Optimize performance for data-heavy interfaces, ensuring dashboards load quickly and efficiently.

What Makes This Role Exciting

  • As one of our first hires, you’ll have the freedom to define how we build solutions.
  • Choose the methodologies and tools that best meet our customers’ needs.
  • Work on a high-growth platform backed by MIT, Harvard, Techstars, and Forbes-recognized innovation.
  • Join us at an exciting time—we’ve grown our waitlist from 250 to 1,700 users in 10 months and recently secured $1.5M in seed funding.
  • Solve critical gaps in the data analytics market and automate workflows for industries facing major workforce transformations.

Who You Are

  • A professional with 3+ years of experience developing and scaling web applications.
  • Experienced with TypeScript, Django and modern frontend development practices.
  • Passionate about designing intuitive user interfaces that deliver exceptional user experiences.
  • Familiar with state management libraries like Redux or similar.
  • Adept at consuming and integrating RESTful APIs and working in cross-functional teams.
  • Comfortable with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress) and ensuring code quality.
  • Knowledgeable in accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for designing inclusive interfaces.

Exceptional Candidates Will Bring

  • Experience building dashboards or data visualization tools for financial or analytics platforms.
  • Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and tools like Figma or Sketch.
  • A track record of optimizing performance for large-scale, data-heavy applications.
  • An understanding of SOC 2 compliance and secure frontend development practices.
  • A history of contributing to startup growth, particularly in scaling a product from MVP to industry leader.
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for inclusive design.
  • Proficiency with design systems and tools like Figma or Sketch to maintain UI consistency.

What Good Looks Like

Q1 Targets:

  • Develop a clean, intuitive dashboard interface that generates reports in under 1 minute.
  • Deliver customizable widgets for dashboards tailored to QuickBooks and Google Sheets.
  • Implement basic UX/UI design improvements to streamline user workflows.

Q2 Targets:

  • Add support for Xero and HubSpot templates, with easy widget customization.
  • Ensure frontend performance supports dashboard loads in under 1 second.
  • Implement accessibility standards (WCAG) to improve usability across customer types.

Q3 Targets:

  • Integrate advanced visualization capabilities for “Ask Jules” recommendations.
  • Build editable action plans and downloadable PDFs for gap analyses.
  • Improve widget customization features to enhance dashboard engagement by 20%.

Q4 Targets:

  • Support advanced enterprise dashboard customization for SAP and Salesforce integrations.
  • Enhance real-time collaboration features for multi-user dashboards.
  • Deliver milestone engagement features (e.g., dashboard engagement score).

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

  • Be part of a company that’s saving businesses hours every week and driving smarter growth.
  • Work with a team of passionate innovators who see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the game.
  • Develop alongside some of the best minds in tech, with connections to MIT, Harvard, and Techstars.
  • We believe in working hard, celebrating wins, lots of ‘Fika’, and building a strong team dynamic that fosters creativity and collaboration.