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📍 Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet. Consumer data science plays a key role in fulfilling Reddit’s mission of bringing community & belonging to the world through deep understanding of how we can better connect people to the best information and communities for them - the heart of Reddit’s product - from crypto to support groups, gaming to AMAs, travel tips to memes. Reddit's experimentation landscape presents uniquely challenging problems. Our platform is a deeply interconnected network of communities, contributors, and consumers – meaning that standard A/B testing assumptions often break down. We need a senior technical leader who thrives on these hard problems and can raise the bar for causal inference and experimentation rigor across the entire Consumer organization. As a Senior Staff Data Scientist on the Consumer team, you will be the go-to expert on experimentation methodology, owning the most comp

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, Frontier AI Infrastructure to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will own the model inference layer - enabling state of the art models, debugging the latest AI tools, managing networking, debugging latency, and tracking pricing/usage metrics for AI models. You will lead technical discussions on the frontlines with cloud vendors and customers to deliver on critical contracts and to debug platform issues. You will also work upstream with Product to understand features before they break, moving us from "infra-only debugging" to proactive integration testing. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. You will work with Product to build integration tests that catch issues early, shifting the focus from "infra-only debugging" to preventing failures upstream. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web develo

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft operate in dynamic environments, moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation solutions.We tackle a wide range of challenges - from shaping long-term business strategy with data, to making critical short-term decisions, to developing algorithms and models that power both internal systems and customer-facing products. Lyft Business builds products that help organizations move the people who matter most - employees, customers, patients, and guests - easily and efficiently. Our offerings include Business Travel, Lyft Pass, and Concierge (for healthcare and non-healthcare rides), enabling companies to manage transportation at scale through APIs, integrations (e.g., Concur, Expensify), and dedicated tools. These platforms power high-impact B2B use cases across corporate travel, healthcare access, customer experience, and community programs. We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead technical initiatives across the entire Lyft Business product suite. In this role, you will shape the technical vision, define algorithmic roadmaps, and drive execution for data science projects that accelerate growth, improve operational efficiency, and deliver measurable value to our enterprise partners. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Go-to-Market teams to build production ML models, experimentation frameworks, and advanced analytics that inform strategy and power product innovation. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role with direct influence on Lyft’s enterprise offerings. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in algorithm development, machine learning, causal inference, and experimentation, alongside strong business acumen in B2B contexts and a proven track record of t

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Growth Products team drives rider and driver acquisition to scale the business and balance the marketplace. We specialize in incentive and messaging targeting, budget optimization, and paid media measurement, and move rapidly to test new ideas and products. As a Data Scientist expert in causal inference and marketing mix models (MMM), you will lead our efforts to measure and optimize investments across marketing channels. Responsibilities: Deliver results across the entire lifecycle of data science solutions for Growth: from defining the problem with cross-functional stakeholders to deploying production models that address key business problems. Own complex domains and develop long-term roadmaps to maximize business impact. Build statistical pipelines, write production code, and design/analyze experiments. Participate in the science on-call rotation to ensure automated campaigns operate successfully. Experience: Advanced degree in statistics, economics, mathematics, or equivalent industry experience. 4+ years of industry experience in causal inference or data science. Proven ability to apply statistics to unstructured problems and deliver measurable results. Deep technical expertise in causal inference and tackling challenging measurement problems. Expertise in marketing mix modeling is highly preferred. Expertise in SQL and experience with large-scale data platforms. Proficiency in Python and working within production coding environments. Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled Mental health benefits Family building benefits Child care and pet benefits 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team membe

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Tenstorrent is seeking a skilled Software Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low-level systems software. In this role, you’ll contribute to the development and optimization of the infrastructure that powers our cutting-edge processors, with a primary focus on C/C++ development and low-level programming. You'll work closely with large inference and training model development to further drive Scale Out software and hardware performance. This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, ON. Who You Are Strong C or C++ systems engineer with a deep understanding of memory, threading, I/O, and low-level execution models. Experienced building low-level software, drivers, embedded systems, or performance-critical infrastructure. Comfortable working close to hardware and curious about how systems behave under the hood. Proficient with Linux systems programming and debugging tools such as gdb, strace, and perf. Structured problem solver who thrives in fast-paced, highly technical environments. What We Need Design, develop, and maintain core infrastructure software that interfaces directly with Tenstorrent hardware. Build low-level libraries and APIs for communication and synchronization across compute nodes. Optimize system-level software for performance, scalability, and reliability in distributed environments. Support hardware

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Role Overview We are seeking a Platform Experience and Developer PM to own how developers and enterprise technical teams build on, integrate with, and operate Cohere's model platform. This is a high-leverage role sitting at the intersection of three domains: Managed Services and Models as a Service. Own Cohere's managed service offerings as a product. This is broader than model serving alone. It includes the full range of how enterprises consume and operate Cohere's capabilities, from shared multi-tenant model access to dedicated single-tenant deployments, and from synchronous real-time inference to high-volume asynchronous workloads. You will own the product thinking around deployment models, data residency and regional compliance requirements, self-serve provisioning, and the operational controls that give enterprises confidence in running production workloads on Cohere’s infrastructure. API and SDK. Own the roadmap for how developers build on Cohere. This means setting the direction for our APIs and SDKs, thinking carefully about interface design and ergonomics, and ensuring we ship developer primitives that are stable, well-

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit’s Ads Data Science team is looking for a Senior Staff Data Scientist to lead the scientific strategy behind Reddit’s ads measurement and signal systems. This role sits at the center of how Reddit proves advertiser value, improves signal quality, builds privacy-aware measurement systems, and connects ads exposure to real advertiser outcomes. As a Senior Staff Data Scientist for Ads Measurement, you will be the principal architect of our technical vision and the driving force behind the next generation of our measurement ecosystem. In a landscape rapidly shifting due to privacy regulations, browser changes, and evolving platform dynamics, you will spearhead innovation across experimental design (incrementality/lift), identity, signals, and privacy-safe 1P/3P measurement. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role requiring a rare blend of deep experimentation & causal inference expertise, strategic foresight, and the ability to influence cross-functional executives and industry standards. You will not just adapt to the changing ad-tech environment, you will redefine how we measure value. Responsibilities Technical Vision & Strategy: Define the long-term data science vision & strategy across ads measurement, signal quality, identity, attribution, and privacy. Establish how Reddit should evaluate advertiser value, measurement quality, and signal utility across first-party and third-party products. Set the Cross-Pillar Measurement Science Strategy: Define the long-term data science strategy across a

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash’s GenAI Platform team sits within Machine Learning Platform and builds the shared infrastructure that helps DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo teams safely bring GenAI-powered products, agents, automation, and personalization to production. Our mission is to increase the velocity of business impact from GenAI. A central pillar of that work is running frontier open-weight LLMs and VLMs (such as GLM, Qwen, Kimi, and DeepSeek) ourselves — real-time GPU serving, high-throughput batch inference, and fine-tuning on autoscaling GPUs — delivering large cost and latency wins (for example, a billion embeddings produced roughly 20× cheaper and visual models served roughly 72% cheaper). We also own core platform surfaces including the LLM Gateway, Agent Gateway, evals infrastructure, guardrails, and cost attribution. About the Role You will join a small, high-leverage team building production infrastructure for Generative AI at DoorDash, leading the design and architecture of our open-weights model platform spanning inference and fine-tuning: real-time GPU serving, high-throughput batch inference, and model fine-tuning. You’ll set technical direction across model serving and inference engines, fine-tuning and training pipelines, GPU autoscaling and utilization, batch pipelines, backend services, and observability, and mentor engineers as you go. This role is ideal for a senior engineer who enjoys owning ambiguous, high-impact systems and pushing the cost/performance frontier of GPU inference and fine-tuning in a fast-moving technical area where product needs, model capabilities, vendor ecosystems, and cost/performance tradeoffs are evolving quickly. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead the design of infrastructure that helps DoorDash teams move GenAI ideas from prototype to production, increasing the velocity of business impact from AI across the company. Own and evolve our open-weights serving stack — real-time GPU endpoints, high-thr

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$172K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Data Science & Analytics is at the heart of Lyft's products and decision-making. The Rider Experience team sits at the center of how millions of riders discover, choose, and return to Lyft. We are hiring a Data Science Manager to lead our Toronto-based science & analytics team that turns rider behavior into product strategy. This role owns the analytical foundation behind our most consequential rider-facing decisions: how we measure experience quality, where friction costs us retention, and which bets move rider LTV. You will set the measurement and experimentation standards for rider product squads, and translate ambiguous business questions into rigorous, decision-ready analysis that shapes roadmap and investment. You will also lead the team's transition to AI-native data science and analytics workflows, embedding AI tooling into how we explore data, make decisions, and ship products. Responsibilities: Lead and grow a high-performing team of data scientists and analysts with diverse backgrounds Define and drive the data science vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning with business and product objectives to improve market competitiveness and rider experience Provide strong technical guidance and coaching to the team on complex data science problems Champion data-driven decision-making and prioritization by partnering with product managers, engineers, marketers, and leaders to translate insights into decisions and action Lead deep-dive analyses into large-scale datasets to identify opportunities for improving rider app experience and overall rider product health Ensure robust experimentation and causal inference methodologies are applied to measure the impact of new features and strategies Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members; help develop the

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📍 Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Location: At Reddit we continue to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely remote friendly . Team Description: The Marketing Science team at Reddit leverages data to maximize the impact of Reddit’s own marketing investments. We serve as the engine behind our growth, using advanced experimentation, causal inference, and econometrics to understand what drives users to Reddit and what brings advertisers to our platform. We work at the intersection of brand building and performance marketing, ensuring every dollar spent is an investment in the long-term health of our ecosystem. Role Description: Reddit is looking for a highly experienced Staff Data Scientist to lead the strategy and technical execution of our Marketing Intelligence efforts. In this role, you will be the primary architect of how we measure and optimize Reddit’s marketing spend. You will focus on two critical flywheels: B2B Marketing (acquiring and retaining advertisers) and B2C Growth (acquiring and engaging new Redditors). This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role where you will set the long-term strategic goals for Reddit’s marketing measurement, influencing senior leadership and defining how we value our brand and performance efforts. Responsibilities: Set Long-Term Marketing Strategy: Define the 2–3 year technical roadmap for marketing measurement. Establish the "North Star" metrics and frameworks that determine how Reddit allocates hundreds of millions in marketing budget. Optimize Marketing ROI: Build and refine Media Mix Models (MM

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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From C$160K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Staff Software Engineer Opportunity Passkeys, powered by FIDO2 WebAuthn, are revolutionizing how people authenticate—bringing us into a passwordless future that’s more secure and seamless than ever before.At Okta, we’re on a mission to help enterprises and consumers embrace this transformation. We’re building cutting-edge phishing-resistant authenticators and passkey solutions that make security stronger while making life easier for users. Our products empower businesses to leave passwords behind and defend against modern threats with innovative, user-friendly technology. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Passwordless team. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader, making large, independent contributions and shaping the future of how millions of users access technology securely. This is a role for an engineer who thrives on solving ambiguous problems and taking ownership of end-to-end solutions. You will not only execute on complex technical challenges but also influence the team's direction, mentor other engineers, and proactively identify opportunities to improve our products and processes. If you are passionate about building highly reliable, scalable systems and want to define the future of passwordless authentication, we’d love for you to join us. What you’ll be doing Partner closely with product, design, and other cross-functional stakeholders to own problem spaces and ensure we are building the right solutions fo

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role: Tubi is one of the largest free streaming platforms in the US, serving a large-scale streaming audience across Web, iOS, Android, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and game consoles. Quality at this scale isn't a checkbox — it's a competitive advantage. We're looking for an Automation Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for building and operating Tubi's multi-platform test automation infrastructure. You will own the strategy, tooling, and execution quality across our client surfaces — from video playback and ad delivery to content discovery and onboarding. This role is for a hands-on technical leader who can set direction, influence cross-functional roadmaps, and stay close enough to the code to guide architecture, review critical implementation decisions, and unblock complex technical issues. You will build a team that ships reliable automation at speed — and you will help the team move toward AI-native automation practices: fluent in AI tooling, proactive about applying it, and disciplined about using it responsibly. This is a hybrid role based out of either our San Francisco or Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to either location at least 2 days a week. What You'll Do: Test Strategy & Quality Planning Define and own Tubi's multi-platform automation strategy — covering Web, iOS, Android, CTV (Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Smart TVs, game consoles), and API layers. Establish testing standards, coverage targets, and quality gate policies across the CI/CD pipeline to protect release confidence and production reliability. Design specialized test strategies for business-critical scenarios: video playback (HLS/DASH), ad insertion, content recommendation surfaces, and user authentication flows. Use AI-assisted analysis (e.g., failure pattern clustering, test gap detection) to continuously improve test strategy based on real production signal and defect trends — not gut instinct. Automation Framework & Infrastructure Lead the

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role: The Growth team is responsible for building and optimizing the UI/UX across all Web and OTT applications at Tubi. The team primarily focuses on implementing features related to full funnel user acquisition and growth, including SEO user registration, onboarding, and account management. As a Staff Engineer (L5) on this team, you act as the technical leader for one or more Growth areas. You own the technical architecture and direction, solve ambiguous problems that few others can, and influence cross-functional teams across multiple pods. You will work closely with Product and Design to develop cutting-edge, experiment-driven features, while driving the front-end architecture that ensures performance and scalability for millions of users. You will be working with React, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and CDN infrastructure to build and deploy high-performance applications that reach millions of users. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Own the technical roadmap and architecture for a Growth area with large amounts of ambiguity: driving direction across web, mobile web, and smart TV platforms, and influencing the team to invest in new projects. Solve challenging, ambiguous problems with a focus on scalability and performance; proactively identify systemic issues and propose innovative solutions. Lead and drive innovation in building experiment-driven features; independently design, implement, and interpret a series of A/B experiments that move growth metrics. Lead and coordinate major rollouts and releases: including cross-team coordination, migrations, and phased releases of major initiatives across Web and OTT apps. Establish team-wide quality and engineering standards; set the bar for code quality and front-end best practices. Identify and implement improvements in shared UI components, platform-specific optimizations, and overall fr

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team As DoorDash continues to expand rapidly, our Core Consumer team plays a pivotal role in shaping the consumer experience through enhancing personalization, search relevance, merchandising strategy, app quality, and the overall ordering experience. Our mission is to implement scalable data solutions and provide insights that directly influence our strategic product direction. We are looking for an Analytics Senior Manager to lead our Discovery team. About the Role As a Senior Manager of Data Science/Analytics, you’ll be leading a team of data scientists who are working on improving the consumer experience. You will develop strategic insights and work closely with the product, engineering, strategy and operations teams to actively build and measure the impact of new features. You will oversee our metrics and analytics strategy to inform strategic product direction, offer technical leadership and build processes to support velocity, and partner with data and product engineers to build robust data foundations. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and develop a team of Data Scientists in investigating complex issues and uncovering key drivers of our business, along with your own contributions as an Individual Contributor Influence the Product and Operations roadmap by making actionable recommendations based on data Interface frequently with senior leadership to showcase your team’s work and tackle complex business problems Drive measurement strategy for the area under scope, defining success metrics and implementing best practices around experiment design and statistical analysis Develop a strategic learning roadmap based on data observations, strategic questions, and hypotheses We're excited about you because you have… A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain Experience managing a team of data scientists, and a track record of delivering impactful analyses 8+ years of experience i

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📍 Canada· Full-time
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At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 Role Overview We’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp. In this role, you will lead architectural strategy across major product surfaces, solve company-wide frontend challenges, and influence how teams build and ship at scale. You will partner deeply with engineering, product, design, backend, and integrations leadership to ensure ClickUp’s frontend systems remain fast, reliable, and adaptable as the business grows. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and implementation levels, especially in a high-growth, fast-paced environment. What You’ll Do Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular 2+ and React that support rapid product development Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment

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