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Product Engineer

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As a Frontend Engineer, you will focus on building high-performance UIs using React, work closely with design, and improve browser performance.
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Overview
At Blacksmith, we provide cloud infra to help companies run their CI (GitHub Actions) substantially faster and cheaper. Our mission is to build a CI cloud. Our bet is that CI, as a class of workloads, is ready to be unbundled from the hyperscaler clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure). This is a bold statement, and we have an ambitious roadmap ahead.


Some things we're proud of

  • We orchestrate millions of VMs for CI jobs each month over our own fleet of bare metal hardware.

  • We power CI for 900+ fast-growing startups like Supabase, UserTesting, Ashby, Slope, AtoB, Pylon, and Finch.

  • Founders: Aditya Maru and Aayush Shah were early systems engineers at Cockroach Labs. Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash worked on search infra and was later a founding member of the ads team at Faire.

  • We went through Y Combinator's W24 batch and raised $13.5M Series A from Google Ventures

You are a good fit if you

  • Have strong CS fundamentals and a deep understanding of React and modern frontend development.

  • Can work closely with design to build polished, high-performance UIs — and aren’t afraid to go deep on browser performance, rendering bottlenecks, or complex component architecture.

  • Have 3+ years of software development experience.

  • Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in NYC or SF.

  • Enjoy working at a very early-stage startup and are comfortable with ambiguity.

Bonus

  • You’ve dabbled in your own side hustles or start-up projects.

  • You’re comfortable creating new processes and iterating on them quickly.

Compensation and benefits

  • Compensation: We want to attract the best people to come work with us and offer competitive compensation packages

  • Benefits: We offer premium health, dental, and vision coverage and 16 weeks paid parental leave for new parents.

  • Time off: We offer unlimited PTO and encourage folks to take their birthday off!

  • Foodie Benefits: You and a +1 get a Michelin star dinner on us for your birthday

  • 401(k): Helps you save for retirement

Top Skills

Modern Frontend Development
React

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