Frontend Software Engineer
- Salary
- $160K - $300K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 14 March 2026.
About the role
Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.
Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.
The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.
Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.
The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.
We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the CTO and CEO on strategic technical decisions and product direction.
- Design, develop, and optimize intuitive, user-friendly frontend interfaces using React and Next.js.
- Build robust and responsive components that seamlessly integrate with backend services and APIs.
- Enhance user experiences through real-time data visualization and interaction.
- Lead frontend projects from initial conception through production deployment, ensuring scalability, responsiveness, and reliability.
- Interface directly with users to gather feedback, understand pain points, and continuously improve our product's UI/UX.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building production-grade frontend systems.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
- Experience building scalable, responsive web applications.
- Familiarity integrating frontend applications with RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
- Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices.
- Bonus points for familiarity with real-time data visualization, WebRTC, or frontend performance optimization.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 5 open in Engineering. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (3 of 5), Python (3 of 5), WebRTC (3 of 5), Django (2 of 5), GraphQL (2 of 5), JavaScript (2 of 5), LLM (2 of 5)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Platform Security Engineer posted Oct 13
- IT Automation Engineer posted Sep 23
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer (EU) posted Aug 4
- Backend Software Engineer posted Jul 27
From the team and dates on Outset's own job board.
Salary context
7 other open postings titled Frontend Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 240,000 a year.
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