Member of Technical Staff

Member of Technical Staff (Frontend)

Company: Astrocade
Location: Palo Alto, CA (in office 4 days per week, Wednesdays from home)
Compensation: $180,000 - $250,000 base (OTE $216,000 - $300,000) + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfer)

About Astrocade

Astrocade is an AI consumer lab and interactive content platform that lets anyone create games and interactive experiences with generative AI. It has passed 40M users, is doubling every three months and serves 200M+ gameplays a month ahead of its US launch.

Founded in 2022, Astrocade has about 25 people from Google Research, Meta, FAIR and Stanford, and has raised $100M+ from investors including Sequoia, Google and NVIDIA.

The Role

Astrocade is hiring a Frontend Member of Technical Staff (7+ years, Staff/L6 level) to help scale astrocade.com as it prepares for its US launch. Think of it like joining a major consumer platform in its early days: high ownership, no politics, and the architecture challenges of a product already serving tens of millions of users. You will report to the founding frontend engineer and guide technical direction as a senior individual contributor.

What You Will Do

• Own and build core user-facing features across creation and discovery on astrocade.com using React, Next.js and React Native.
• Solve scaling and performance challenges as the platform doubles users every three months.
• Work across the full frontend stack, from caching and server pages on Vercel to authentication and backend integration.
• Ship new features daily in a fast-moving, zero-to-one environment.

What You Bring

• 7-12 years of frontend engineering with React on consumer-facing products, at Staff (L6) level
• L6-level experience at a top consumer tech company or equivalent
• Frontend experience on consumer platforms or marketplaces at scale
• CS, EECS or equivalent degree from a top-50 university
• Takes ideas independently from concept to shipped product; decisive and fast-moving
• A Staff-level IC focus (not seeking to manage)
• Ability to work in the Palo Alto office 4 days a week

Nice to Have

• Data-rich, real-time, high-quality user interfaces
• Backend code that connects to the frontend

Interview Process

Intro call with the Head of Talent (30 min), intro call with the CTO (30 min), technical screen (1 hour), on-site final round (half day).

Tech Stack

React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, CSS, Vercel

REVENUE: 22.5% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $41K-$56K; 1 seat(s).

TARGET COMPANIES (client (Meta/Google/Uber/Airbnb named) + suggested): Meta, Google, Uber, Airbnb, TikTok, Instagram, Roblox.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 7-12 yrs; L6-level consumer frontend (React/RN) at scale; top-50 CS degree; staff IC; visa: transfers only; location: Palo Alto 4 days. Hard cap: over 12 yrs is a no; avoid internal-tools-only careers and enterprise-only profiles.