Superhuman is looking to solve the problem of slow email experiences and is building a household brand and a worldwide organization by combining premium product craft with enterprise-scale capabilities to rethink how individuals and teams should fundamentally collaborate.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional Frontend web development experience, working from the database to the UI
- Deep understanding of browser JavaScript (including the DOM and platform APIs)
- Experience with React, Typescript, Electron, Google Cloud
- Experience with Golang, Postgres, Swift, Kotlin is a plus
- AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers
- Expertise in performance, reliability, and architecture decisions
- Experience with metrics, logging, telemetry
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain our desktop application while keeping resource usage (CPU, memory, threads) minimal and predictable
- Monitor, profile, and analyze runtime performance (rendering, memory leaks, blocking operations) and implement optimizations to avoid regressions
- Advocate and evolve the frontend architecture (modularity, dependency boundaries, layering, decoupling) to ensure scalability as features grow
- Define, enforce, and evangelize best practices in code quality (linting, style guides, code reviews, static analysis, automated checks)
- Develop robust error-handling, crash-reporting, fallback mechanisms, and recovery paths for critical failures inside the UI
- Work cross-functionally with backend, QA, and infrastructure teams to define interfaces, API contracts, versioning, and compatibility across releases
- Instrument and maintain tooling (metrics, logging, telemetry) to gain visibility into app health, user flows, and regressions
Other
- Asynchronous Communicator: You’re effective across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed
- Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the project
- Bias to action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow
- Location: This role is open to candidates based in Latin America
