Frontend Software Engineer
Role Overview
This is a hybrid role based out of the San Francisco HQ, 3 days a week.
$160,000 - $200,000 a year
As a Frontend Engineer at Ketch, you’ll build the product surfaces that make massive, messy data ecosystems feel understandable and controllable. Our backend and AI systems classify sensitive data, detect issues across hundreds of technologies, and make real-time policy decisions. Your job is to turn this firehose of signals, metadata, and model outputs into interfaces that feel fast, obvious, and trustworthy.
You’ll design workflows that help customers inspect systems, explore classification results, understand why decisions were made, evaluate risk, and take action. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, AI insights, and human decision-making: you’re giving users clarity in environments that are inherently complex.
What You’ll Own
Build the interfaces where customers map their entire data ecosystem and see how information moves across systems.
Create React experiences that surface real-time classifications, consent states, policy outcomes, and risk signals.
Craft experiences that bring “privacy by design” to life and are seen by millions of users every day.
Turn AI insights, model explanations, and decision traces into UI that feels obvious and trustworthy.
Build inspection tools that reveal where sensitive data appears, why the system flagged it, and what action to take next.
Work hand in hand with designers to craft reusable components and data patterns that stay reliable across streaming events, large datasets, and complex async flows.
Partner with backend and AI teams to shape the data contracts powering classification, system discovery, and automated governance.
Elevate our design system with patterns that make advanced privacy and governance concepts feel simple.
What We’re Looking For
Strong JavaScript and TypeScript skills with a solid grasp of how modern browsers render, optimize, and handle real-world workloads.
Hands-on experience shipping React interfaces that are fast, clean, and reliable in production.
Ability to design simple, predictable state patterns and work confidently with async data and evolving UI flows.
Comfort working with backend and AI engineers to shape APIs and turn raw data into great product experiences.
A product-first mindset with clear communication and a bias toward shipping, learning, and iterating quickly.
Willingness to dive into performance issues, edge cases, and the small details that make a UI feel polished.
Excitement about privacy, data, and AI, and a desire to make complex technology feel intuitive for real users.
Familiarity with testing, design systems, and the practical best practices that keep a startup moving fast.
The estimated base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $200,000, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
