Founding Frontend Engineer - Peerbound at Forum Ventures

WHY PEERBOUND Every B2B buyer wants to hear from a company's current customers before making a buying decision. As AI makes every market 10x more competitive, a company's ability to unlock and activate the voices of its happy customers isn't just a nice-to-have; it's the only moat. Peerbound [Upgrade to PRO to see link] makes this possible at scale. Today, we do this for leading B2B SaaS companies like AlphaSense, Braze, Canva, Databricks, and Gong. We have the rare opportunity to disrupt not just multiple old-school software vendors, but entire categories of software, services, and labor. Our core values are Dazzle Customers, Deliver Results, and Demand Excellence. We recruit people with a demonstrated track record of excellence and give them the room to do the best work of their lives. If this sounds like the environment where you do your best work, we invite you to build with us. We are proud to be an NYC company, working hard in-person at our office near Penn Station. Our founders helped build Braze and Datadog, two of the city's biggest IPOs, and we're backed by the venture investors behind Square, Instacart, Airtable, and Webflow. WHY NOW We've spent two years earning product-market fit the hard way: 30+ enterprise customers who pay us real money and keep doubling down. We just closed our seed round to scale the team and accelerate product development. You'll be early enough to shape how this company builds software and know everyone by name on Day 1. But you're not walking into a blank canvas, as we have paying customers, a working product, and a validated roadmap. The risk is low and the leverage is enormous. Simply put, you will learn and contribute so much at Peerbound that you will accelerate your career more here than anywhere else. Peerbound is a product-centered company. To create the most valuable product in the least time, we are dedicated to building an Engineering team of exclusively A-players, collaborating 4 days a week in our midtown Manhattan office. WHAT YOU’LL DO You'll be the frontend guru at Peerbound, setting the standard for how our frontend is built and how it feels. You'll report to our Head of Engineering and work closely with our CEO and customers across every frontend surface: our web app and embeddable components on high-traffic public sites. Set the foundation. Partner with our in-house designer to build out the component library and design system. Establish a cross-browser testing framework. Own how we leverage AI tooling as a real force multiplier in UI development and engineering-product-design collaboration. Ship constantly. Go from PRD to production every week: design the API, build reusable components, write tests, monitor user interactions. Near-term roadmap includes a customer analytics dashboard, a chatbot interface, and an overhauled user management experience. Dazzle customers. Bring best practices into our product. Be a thought partner to our Product Designer. Optimize performance relentlessly. The frontend is where customers feel our quality most. WHO YOU ARE 5+ years building customer-facing frontends, including 3+ years at a startup or scale-up. You know what good collaboration looks like and what bad architecture costs. Fluent in TypeScript, React, and GraphQL. Comfortable with Tailwind CSS, Figma, and Storybook. Beyond the stack, you care about craft at every level, from the easing curve on a transition to component naming conventions. You'd rather ship something dazzling on Tuesday than something mid on Monday. COMPENSATION $180,000 to $240,000/year plus meaningful equity and benefits (fully covered medical / vision / dental, 401K, flexible PTO). In-person in NYC, 4 days in-office. NOTE FROM THE CEO This company represents my life's work. I've been part of two IPOs, and I want to build the kind of company at Peerbound where working here marks an inflection point in everyone’s career, and leads to the kind of bonds that last a lifetime. This is our first dedicated frontend hire and one of the most important hires we'll make, ever. You won't just build our UI; you'll define what quality means for every engineer, designer, and user. If you notice when a transition is 50ms too slow, get excited about building a design system from zero, and want to be somewhere early enough to put your fingerprints on everything, we'd love to meet you.