Senior Frontend Engineer - Platform

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at AI21, you play a crucial role in enhancing the user experience for our products and services. You'll work on the front-end development of our web-based applications and platforms, ensuring they are not only functional but also user-friendly and visually appealing. You'll contribute to the success of our company by bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI technology and end-users, making complex AI capabilities accessible to a broad audience.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing web applications to interact with AI21's language models.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and backend engineers to create seamless user experiences.
• Implement and maintain complex UI components that showcase AI-powered features, such as natural language understanding, generation, and text editing.
• Optimize web applications for performance, scalability, and accessibility.
• Keep abreast of the latest frontend technologies and best practices, and incorporate them into the development process.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior frontend engineers, fostering their professional growth.
• Participate in code reviews, quality assurance, and testing to maintain high code quality and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve frontend issues, ensuring a smooth user experience.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance user interfaces to align with evolving product requirements and customer feedback.
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in frontend development, with a strong focus on web applications.
• Proficiency in modern frontend technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and popular frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Experience with responsive web design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Strong understanding of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design principles.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming.
• Knowledge of version control systems, such as Git.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively both independently and in a team.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A good understanding and hands-on experience with backend systems - advantage
  
  

About Us:

AI21 Labs was formed by AI luminaries and veterans of the elite technology unit of Israel’s IDF (Yoav Shoham, Amnon Shashua, and Ori Goshen), with the mission of building AI systems with an unprecedented capacity to understand and generate natural language. The company’s products - Wordtune and Wordtune Read - aim to transform the way we read and write. Wordtune is the first AI-based writing companion that understands context and meaning, while Wordtune Read is an AI-based reading companion which helps people read faster, more efficiently and process information in less time. AI21 Studio is our B2B channel focused on empowering developers anywhere to build text based apps and services using our state-of-the-art language models.