About Sobek AI and the Role
Sobek AI is building the secure nervous system for life-sciences innovation networks and intergovernmental emergency response. Backed by $10M+ in grants and funding, we partner with globally significant organizations to accelerate mission-critical, distributed workflows with AI—while protecting IP and sensitive public-health data.
We’re looking for a bedrock hire to build out the user experience of our enterprise AI applications. You’ll set the bar for design-system quality, performance, and reliability, turning high-stakes workflows into clear, trustworthy interfaces. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role.
What You’ll Do
Build core frontend architecture. Lead the design and implementation of data-intensive web apps with a strong focus on accessibility and reliability.
Define and prototype user experience. Take ambiguous, high-stakes workflows from concept to launch. Create wireframes, user flows, and lightweight interactive prototypes to iterate with the team and users before hardening into production.
Establish design systems. Create reusable component libraries with clear documentation and robust UI tests.
Ship real-time, resilient UX. Build interfaces that handle large content, streaming results, and intermittent networks—with graceful error recovery.
Collaborate on API & data contracts. Work with backend teams to define REST/gRPC/streaming semantics, caching, error handling, and retry/backoff behavior that make the UI performant.
Operate at the boundary when needed. Where it accelerates delivery, implement lightweight server routes (TypeScript or Python) to compose services for the UI: auth context, pre-signed uploads/downloads, and server-side streaming.
Instrument and iterate. Wire UX telemetry and user feedback into evaluation loops; partner with AI engineers to improve time-to-insight and reduce cost.
Build for enterprise constraints. Partner on authN/authZ and multi-tenant needs; uphold frontend security hygiene in regulated environments.
Serve as a force multiplier. Drive code reviews and ADRs, and set patterns others can scale.
About You
5+ years building production frontends in React/TypeScript, with end-to-end ownership of complex product flows.
Strong with data-dense UIs (tables, complex forms, editors) and real-time interactions; comfortable reasoning about performance and accessibility trade-offs.
Strong interaction judgment and a sense for visual quality and information hierarchy.
Experienced integrating REST/gRPC and streaming APIs; you can think clearly about backpressure, partial results, and error semantics.
Comfortable using logs/traces/metrics to diagnose issues across client ↔ server boundaries.
Product-minded and customer-first: comfortable talking with users and instrumenting flows, iterating quickly on outcomes.
Strong frontend security hygiene (safe rendering of untrusted content, file/HTML handling) and an instinct for clarity and trust in high-stakes contexts.
Nice to Haves
Built lightweight server routes/gateways for UI composition (TS or Python).
Familiarity with auth flows (OIDC/SAML), multi-tenant concerns, pre-signed uploads, and secure previews.
Experience with collaborative or compare/diff UX, lineage/visualization, and rich editors.
Details
Compensation: $170K – $230K + meaningful equity for early engineers
Location: Hybrid (Seattle, WA)
Benefits: Company-paid health coverage (including dependents)
Visa: We do not sponsor visas for this role at this time
