Front-end Engineer

Vectara provides a Trusted Generative AI platform that allows organizations to rapidly create a ChatGPT-like experience (an AI assistant) which is grounded in the data, documents and knowledge that they have. Our serverless RAG-as-a-Service platform also solves critical problems required for enterprise adoption, namely: reduces hallucination, provides explainability / provenance, enforces access control, allows for real-time updatability of the knowledge and mitigates intellectual property / bias concerns from large language models (LLMs). Our founding team includes industry pioneers and experts in neural information retrieval and distributed systems from Google. 

Join us as we pursue our mission to help the world find meaning through trusted Generative AI for Enterprise Applications. People at Vectara are passionate about ensuring customers take advantage of breakthroughs in applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real-world technology & business problems today. Our team is a group of unquestionable all-stars in their respective fields of computer science and business from Google, Cloudera, Splunk, MongoDB, Elastic and more.  

Role

This is a remote role on a remote-focused team, so we’re looking for candidates who are experienced and comfortable in this style of collaboration. Great written and verbal communication skills are a must in this type of environment.

We are seeking a highly motivated front-end engineer to join our dynamic and growing team. As a front-end engineer, you will be responsible for participating in the design and development of our web applications. You should have a strong understanding of front-end technologies and be comfortable asking questions to fully understand goals and constraints, and then independently make decisions based on this knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain web application front-ends.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Provide support to internal teams.
• Liaise with developers, designers, internal stakeholders, and customers to identify new features.

Skills and Qualifications

• Proven experience as a front-end engineer or similar role.
• Strong experience with front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript).
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks/libraries such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Ability to proactively identify and solve engineering problems.
• Experience using Git to manage changes is a plus.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of experience as a Full-Stack Developer or similar role.

Equity and Salary

Salary is just one component of Vectara’s employee compensation. Our full-time employees are also equity owners in the company, which although not an immediate cash component, can have positive impacts on long-term total compensation for each participating employee. We would be remiss if we didn’t highlight and celebrate our focus on engaging many of our employees in being economic co-owners of the business.

Vectara welcomes all. We value the collective wisdom of people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.  We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. Vectara has a positive and supportive culture—we look for people who are inventive and work to be a little better every single day. We seek to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, curious. After all, we are on a mission to find meaning.