UI Engineer

🚀 About Compa

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation.

In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams.

Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI.

Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, TMobile, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, Target, and more.

Locations:

Compa headquarters are located in Irvine, California, with growing sites in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. We’re a collaborative, curious, and driven team that values transparency, ownership, and continuous learning and prioritizing in person work where possible.

The Role:

UI Engineering at Compa is the connective layer between product intent and user experience; where decisions around structure, interaction, and maintainability all converge.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of design, product, engineering, and user experience. You’ll help translate ideas into elegant, functional interfaces; shaping not just how things look, but how they work and evolve.

You’ll be joining an existing lead UIE to scale Compa’s UI infra and products.

Software engineers at Compa have a high degree of ownership and autonomy to build the systems powering the future of enterprise compensation at a global scale.

Compa has a wide breadth of projects that will continue to expand as we grow. A few examples of projects are: finding new ways to bring its unique data to HR teams, leveraging Artificial Intelligence to unlock new insights and predictions related to the labor market, building tools to scale our internal operations, ensuring engineering excellence throughout our stack, and maintaining our enterprise grade security posture.

You will join Compa’s world-class, in-house engineering team and partner with Compa’s co-founders to build and scale the company, it’s systems, and products.

You have a high-level of trust and autonomy to build our core systems and influence the product roadmap.

About you

• As our next UIE, you should have 5+ years of experience shipping beautiful products — you care about your craft

• Want to make help figure out how to make compensation more transparent, fair, and equitable

• Proven track record of shipping products

• Pragmatic instincts - you think first about the interaction of systems and people rather than the latest technical fad

• Comfortable executing in high ambiguous and constantly changing situations

• Have a bias for action - transform ambiguity and uncertainty into concrete next steps

• Able to overcome obstacles to ship - done is better than perfect!

• Collaborative problem solver

• Looking to realize your potential by engaging with challenging problems, both technical and societal

Technologies

Here’s our stack:

• React JS

• Typescript

• Emotion CSS

• GraphQL via Apollo

• Django

• Python

• AWS

You don’t need to have prior experience with these exact technologies but some experience is a plus.