Staff Engineer - UI

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Who We Are

Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record, enabling organizations to conduct risk assessments, protect against workplace violence, and manage threats and incidents more efficiently. Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies rely on Ontic to support security programs such as executive protection, threat intelligence, and corporate investigations.

Role Summary

Ontic is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend to drive frontend architecture, shared capabilities, and engineering excellence across multiple teams. This role is intended for engineers with deep frontend expertise, strong systems thinking, and a passion for creating leverage through reusable platforms, frameworks, and standards.

You will operate across product and platform teams to improve consistency, scalability, developer experience, and maintainability across Ontic's frontend ecosystem. Success in this role comes from solving problems that impact multiple teams, influencing technical direction without direct authority, and enabling other engineers to move faster through shared solutions and architectural guidance.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture

Define and evolve frontend architecture patterns and shared capabilities used across multiple product teams

Drive adoption of scalable patterns for component architecture, state management, application structure, and frontend integrations

Ensure consistency, reusability, maintainability, and scalability across frontend codebases

Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on frontend design decisions across teams

Identify opportunities to simplify frontend systems through shared abstractions and reusable solutions

Frontend Platform & Shared Capabilities

Drive adoption of shared frontend platforms, frameworks, and tooling across teams

Partner with platform and product teams to improve consistency across Ontic's frontend ecosystem

Identify opportunities to reduce duplicated engineering effort through reusable solutions and shared capabilities

Improve engineering velocity through standardization, automation, and platform investments

Contribute to the evolution of design systems, UI frameworks, and shared frontend infrastructure

Technical Direction

Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ensure architectural decisions align with product, platform, and engineering objectives

Establish engineering standards, best practices, and decision frameworks for frontend development

Guide teams in making sound technical decisions aligned with long-term maintainability and scalability goals

Drive adoption of modern frontend technologies, tools, and workflows

Influence technical direction across multiple teams through collaboration and technical leadership

Performance, Quality & Experience

Define and drive standards for performance, accessibility, and user experience across frontend applications

Lead initiatives to improve application performance, responsiveness, and reliability

Establish best practices for testing, observability, monitoring, and frontend reliability

Improve developer experience through better tooling, workflows, documentation, and platform capabilities

Drive initiatives that improve engineering productivity and reduce friction in frontend development

Risk & System Evolution

Identify systemic frontend risks including performance bottlenecks, architectural inconsistencies, scalability challenges, and maintainability concerns

Lead cross-team efforts to address technical debt and improve overall system health

Drive evolution of frontend systems to support increasing scale, complexity, and business needs

Proactively identify engineering challenges affecting multiple teams and drive sustainable solutions

Technical Leadership

Mentor senior engineers and elevate frontend engineering standards across teams

Act as a technical multiplier by helping teams solve recurring engineering challenges through reusable solutions and architectural guidance

Influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority

Foster a culture of quality, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Lead critical technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or domains

Facilitate technical alignment between product and platform engineering teams

Qualifications and Experiences

8-12 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in frontend development

Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS

Extensive experience with React (or similar frameworks) in large-scale applications

Strong expertise in frontend architecture, design systems, and scalable UI development

Proven experience building and evolving shared component libraries or frontend platforms

Deep understanding of browser internals, rendering, and performance optimization

Experience defining and driving frontend standards and best practices across teams

Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without direct authority

Strong ability to translate product and design needs into scalable technical solutions

Experience with modern frontend tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments

Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and performance tracking tools

Experience working on large-scale SaaS platforms

Good to Have

Experience leading or contributing to design systems at scale

Exposure to micro-frontend architectures or modular frontend systems

Familiarity with security considerations in frontend applications

Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Codex, Cursor, etc.)

Background in improving developer experience and platform engineering

Experience driving frontend modernization or platform adoption initiatives

What Success Looks Like

Within 12–18 months, successful Staff Engineers at Ontic:

Drive adoption of shared frontend capabilities across multiple teams

Reduce engineering duplication through reusable solutions

Improve frontend consistency, reliability, and developer experience

Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams

Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering standards

Influence architecture decisions beyond their immediate team

Create leverage that enables teams to deliver faster and with higher quality

Ontic Benefits & Perks

Competitive Salary

Medical Benefits

Internet Reimbursement

Home Office Stipend

Continued Education Stipend

Festive & Achievement Celebrations

Dynamic Office Environment

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ontic we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Ontic prioritizes the full inclusion of qualified individuals, providing necessary accommodations for those with disabilities to perform essential job functions. If you need assistance during the application or interview process or job tasks, please contact us at recruitment@ontic.co or call (512) 572-7400

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Location

Noida, India

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

EngineeringFrontend