Frontend Developer

Location:
Buffalo, NY / Remote

We believe in a world where data analytics is not a privilege but a universal right and simple enough so anyone use it to drive the profitability of their businesses to transform the world. With industries like accounting and manufacturing facing massive workforce disruptions (i.e., 75% of the workforce retiring in the next 10 years), we’re positioned to step in and change how data drives decisions.

HeronAI (MIT / FinTech, SaaS) empowers mid-sized firms to streamline strategic growth and month-end advisory reporting. Using proprietary algorithms to help mid-sized companies connect all their disparate data into one place, analyze it, create visual dashboards, and action plans to drive strategic decision-making. Our goal is to help reduce analysis and reporting time from 4-12 weeks to under 5 minutes

Our goal not to be just a tool, but to reshape how data drives decisions for over 10 million people in the next 10 years.

Learn more about our Mission and Vision and see HeronAI in the media

As a Frontend Developer, you’ll design intuitive, scalable interfaces that make complex analytics feel simple, driving our vision of reshaping data-driven decision-making for over 10 million users in the next decade.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop and maintain user-facing features.
  • Collaborate closely with backend engineers to integrate APIs and optimize data flow for large-scale dashboards.
  • Design scalable, reusable UI components that enhance the user experience.
  • Work closely with customers and stakeholders to ensure our platform is intuitive and meets real-world needs.
  • Optimize applications for speed and responsiveness, ensuring compatibility across devices and browsers.
  • Contribute to design system development, maintaining consistency across our platform.
  • Implement security best practices to protect user data and maintain compliance standards like SOC 2.
  • Create intuitive, accessible, and responsive interfaces, ensuring compatibility across devices and browsers.
  • Implement testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress) to ensure high-quality and bug-free user experiences.
  • Incorporate UI/UX design best practices, improving usability for accounting and fintech customers.
  • Optimize performance for data-heavy interfaces, ensuring dashboards load quickly and efficiently.

What Makes This Role Exciting

  • As one of our first hires, you’ll have the freedom to define how we build solutions.
  • Choose the methodologies and tools that best meet our customers’ needs.
  • Work on a high-growth platform backed by MIT, Harvard, Techstars, and Forbes-recognized innovation.
  • Join us at an exciting time—we’ve grown our waitlist from 250 to 1,700 users in 10 months and recently secured $1.5M in seed funding.
  • Solve critical gaps in the data analytics market and automate workflows for industries facing major workforce transformations.

Who You Are

  • A professional with 3+ years of experience developing and scaling web applications.
  • Experienced with TypeScript, Django and modern frontend development practices.
  • Passionate about designing intuitive user interfaces that deliver exceptional user experiences.
  • Familiar with state management libraries like Redux or similar.
  • Adept at consuming and integrating RESTful APIs and working in cross-functional teams.
  • Comfortable with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress) and ensuring code quality.
  • Knowledgeable in accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for designing inclusive interfaces.

Exceptional Candidates Will Bring

  • Experience building dashboards or data visualization tools for financial or analytics platforms.
  • Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and tools like Figma or Sketch.
  • A track record of optimizing performance for large-scale, data-heavy applications.
  • An understanding of SOC 2 compliance and secure frontend development practices.
  • A history of contributing to startup growth, particularly in scaling a product from MVP to industry leader.
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for inclusive design.
  • Proficiency with design systems and tools like Figma or Sketch to maintain UI consistency.

What Good Looks Like

Q1 Targets:

  • Develop a clean, intuitive dashboard interface that generates reports in under 1 minute.
  • Deliver customizable widgets for dashboards tailored to QuickBooks and Google Sheets.
  • Implement basic UX/UI design improvements to streamline user workflows.

Q2 Targets:

  • Add support for Xero and HubSpot templates, with easy widget customization.
  • Ensure frontend performance supports dashboard loads in under 1 second.
  • Implement accessibility standards (WCAG) to improve usability across customer types.

Q3 Targets:

  • Integrate advanced visualization capabilities for “Ask Jules” recommendations.
  • Build editable action plans and downloadable PDFs for gap analyses.
  • Improve widget customization features to enhance dashboard engagement by 20%.

Q4 Targets:

  • Support advanced enterprise dashboard customization for SAP and Salesforce integrations.
  • Enhance real-time collaboration features for multi-user dashboards.
  • Deliver milestone engagement features (e.g., dashboard engagement score).

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

  • Be part of a company that’s saving businesses hours every week and driving smarter growth.
  • Work with a team of passionate innovators who see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the game.
  • Develop alongside some of the best minds in tech, with connections to MIT, Harvard, and Techstars.
  • We believe in working hard, celebrating wins, lots of ‘Fika’, and building a strong team dynamic that fosters creativity and collaboration.

Ready to Join Us?

If you’re excited about building for impact and love the idea of simplifying the complex, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply here