Frontend Engineer

About Zed Industries:

Zed Industries is a cutting-edge software company dedicated to revolutionizing the developer experience. Founded by a team of passionate developers, Zed builds a next-generation code editor that is engineered from scratch in Rust to be fast, elegant, and collaborative. Their flagship product, Zed, is a code editor that is engineered from scratch in Rust to be fast, elegant, and collaborative.

About The Role:

We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to own zed.dev, the web experiences our users interact with every day. You'll build and maintain the main site and a polished admin dashboard for managing accounts, teams, and billing. You'll work alongside a team of Rust engineers, building tools for a developer audience that cares about performance, craft, and technical detail. You'll also work closely with our Growth Team to launch and iterate on high-impact bets related to user acquisition and monetization.

Key Responsibilities:
- Lead development and technical direction for zed.dev and our customer-facing admin/dashboard
- Build fast, intuitive, and accessible UIs that set the standard for developer tools
- Collaborate closely with designers and Rust engineers to deliver features and improvements
- Implement and maintain a design system for consistency and quality across all web surfaces
- Ensure admin/dashboard is secure, reliable, and easy for customers to use
- Monitor and optimize frontend performance, accessibility, and SEO

Required Skills and Ideal Candidate:
- Experience owning and building production web apps (React, TypeScript, Next.js, etc.)
- Care deeply about UX, accessibility, and developer-focused experiences
- Love working on dashboards, portals, or other complex UIs
- Have an eye for design and a high bar for polish
- Are curious about Rust and excited to make changes to a large Rust codebase

Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with payments/billing, or customer portals

Join us in revolutionizing the development experience. Your expertise could drive Zed's next game-changing feature! Zed Industries offers a remote-first culture with opportunities for collaboration in Boulder, Colorado, and a commitment to open-source principles, with many of their features available for community contribution.