Frontend Engineer
yeet is hiring a Frontend Engineer in Chicago, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on yeet.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- yeet has 6 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
yeet is built by a tight-knit group of systems, observability, and kernel nerds who refuse to accept “mystery outages” as normal. We’re a small, high-impact team with domain expertise in Linux, eBPF, performance instrumentation, and developer tooling.
We move fast, ship often, and take deep ownership. If you enjoy operating close to the metal, building tools that real engineers lean on during 3 AM incident sprints, and solving hard problems with minimal overhead, you’ll feel right at home here.
About the roleWe’re looking for a Frontend Engineer to push the limits of what’s possible in the browser.
yeet’s UI is a canvas-based app that ingests and visualizes huge streams of data. That means thinking beyond the usual component frameworks: Architecting solutions with data pipelines, rendering loops, and memory constraints in mind.
You’ll be closer to the browser’s low-level engine than most frontend roles, making decisions that directly impact how engineers experience yeet in the mid-incident.
About youYou’ve built performance-critical frontends where smooth rendering and responsiveness weren’t optional.
You know when React helps and when to drop down to Canvas, WebGL, or raw DOM-manipulations for speed.
You have a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms.
You write expressive TypeScript and use the type system to catch bugs before they ship.
You’re fluent in low-level web APIs (e.g. OPFS, OffscreenCanvas, Web Workers) and nerd out over the MDN docs.
You’re motivated by measurable performance: frame budgets, memory profiles, flame-graphs, not just “it feels fast.”
Nice To Haves
Experience with WebAssembly (WASM) for accelerating data-heavy or compute-bound tasks in the browser.
Familiarity with bundling and build tooling (Webpack, Vite, Rollup) to optimize large-scale apps.
Background in usability / UX for data-dense applications — making complex interactions intuitive without sacrificing power.
Deep knowledge of React internals including how the scheduler works and when to bypass it.
How we rate this
Frontend Engineer at yeet rates 23 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $167k
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