Staff Frontend Engineer, Core

AI overview

Shape the frontend roadmap and lead high-impact projects that drive user experience and business outcomes while building an innovative insurance marketplace.

Trellis is a profitable, fast-growing Series A startup backed by General Catalyst, QED, NYCA, and Amex Ventures. We’re reimagining how people shop for home and auto insurance, using smart technology to make something historically painful feel refreshingly easy.

Every day, we help people save time, money, and unnecessary headaches. Behind the scenes, our fully remote team moves fast, owns their craft, and builds products that genuinely make life better.

Led by a three-time fintech founder with a proven track record of going big, we’re building something special, and we’re just getting started.

If you’re hungry to make an impact and love solving complex problems with a scrappy crew, you’ll love it here.

Position Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Core Engineering team, you'll be joining the "brains" behind our insurance marketplace. This team powers the logic that takes an insurance shopper's data and turns it into personalized, high-converting recommendations.

As the second frontend engineer, you’ll do more than just code - you’ll shape our frontend roadmap, initiate new projects, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering to execute on strategic initiatives. You’ll lead development across both internal tools and customer-facing applications, bring strong project ownership, guide architectural decisions, and ensure our systems scale effectively as our company grows.

We believe in paying competitively for great work. As a remote team, we set our salaries at the 75th percentile of national market data in our industry. You can count on your pay being in line with (or above) the market. For this role, the base salary range is $195,000 – $205,000. We review compensation twice a year to make sure we’re staying competitive and rewarding our team’s contributions.

Who You Are

  • Meticulous: You pay attention to detail and take pride in what you deliver
  • Articulate: You succinctly and effectively communicate verbal and written technical and non-technical ideas and topics
  • Kind, not (just) nice: You provide tough feedback in a clear and concise manner that does not diminish or belittle the recipient
  • Opinionated: You bring strong opinions to discussions but are willing to change your mind when presented with new or better information
  • Product-minded: You focus on the “why” just as much as the “what” or “how”
  • Collaborative: You work within your team and cross-functionally to build consensus and achieve results
  • Autonomous: You are self-motivated, able to hold yourself accountable, and can generate high-value work with little direct supervision

What You’ll Do

  • Flesh out and evolve the frontend roadmap alongside product and technical leadership
  • Own high-impact projects that drive user experience and business outcomes
  • Lead development of both internal and external interfaces - from internal tools and dashboards to user-facing experiences and our website
  • Conceptualize and implement experiments to improve usability, reduce friction, and optimize conversion
  • Optimize the customer intake flow to deliver a more intuitive and efficient experience
  • Work with internal customers to iterate quickly and deliver value for our growing insurance agency
  • Drive momentum and clarity across initiatives through strong project ownership
  • Contribute across the stack as needed, including backend services, API integrations, and data-related features
  • Collaborate with other developers on your team, providing feedback on their solutions, reviewing their code, and ensuring quality
  • Ensure scalability and performance across the platform as we continue to grow

What You’ll Need

While you don’t need all of these to be successful in this role, we think you’ll be more successful the more you have

  • 7+ years of experience building fullstack applications with a focus on the frontend
  • Deep production experience with React and Typescript
  • Proven ability to lead projects from conception to execution
  • Attention to detail and product-mindedness shaping intuitive user experiences for internal and external customers
  • Experience building both internal tools and customer-facing interfaces
  • Ability to adapt across the stack and contribute to backend or data work when needed
  • Strong UX sensibility and user empathy, especially when building for non-technical users
  • Data-driven approach with interest in experimentation and product analytics
  • Experience influencing product direction and decision-making

 

Why Trellis? Because life’s too short for boring jobs.

We’re a team of builders, dreamers, and doers reshaping an industry that touches every household in America. At Trellis, you’ll have real ownership, meaningful impact, and the chance to grow alongside a company that’s scaling fast.

Here’s what makes Trellis an incredible place to build your career:

  • ✨ A flat, transparent culture where your voice actually matters

  • 🚀 Ground-floor opportunity with room to stretch and grow 

  • 💰 Compensation at the 75th+ percentile 

  • 🏡 100% remote... work from wherever you do your best thinking (In the US or Canada, that is)

  • 🎉 Quarterly team events that keep our fully remote culture connected and fun

And yes, the perks are pretty great too:

  • 🌴 Flexible vacation (seriously, we want you to take it)

  • 🩺 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees (65% for dependents)

  • 💻 Home office budget to set up your perfect workspace

  • 🧘🏼‍♂️ Wellness events throughout the year, because we believe in investing in the full human, not just the employee
  • 💸 Automatic 401(k) contribution, FSAs, bonuses, and equity opportunities to invest in your future

  • 🐣 Paid parental leave

 

👉 If you’re looking for a place where you can do the best work of your career, while building something that actually matters, we’d love to meet you.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible vacation (seriously, we want you to take it)
  • Health Insurance: 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees (65% for dependents)
  • Home Office Stipend: Home office budget to set up your perfect workspace
  • 401(k) and equity opportunities: Automatic 401(k) contribution, FSAs, bonuses, and equity opportunities to invest in your future
  • Paid Parental Leave: Paid parental leave
  • Wellness Stipend: Wellness events throughout the year, because we believe in investing in the full human, not just the employee

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