Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Frontend
Senior/Staff frontend engineer building features in React on Medal's Electron desktop app, iterating fast with A/B tests and metrics to scale the gaming-clips platform to 100M+ users within General Intuition, an AI lab building large action models. Onsite in NYC 5 days a week.
- Compensation
- $180K–$275K / yr
- Location
- New York City
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of frontend engineering experience
- Experience with React, Redux, Node, and Electron; modern React practices and JavaScript
- In-person in NYC, 5 days in the office alongside the product team
- Ownership and attention to detail; end-to-end quality of complex features
- Excellent understanding of code performance implications in production; confident with profiling tools
- Result-driven; moving fast and shipping regularly based on metrics and feature performance
- Comfort with A/B testing and measuring results with usage metrics
- Passion for games and gaming communities; user of Discord and gaming-adjacent products
Nice to have
- Full-stack experience including Java, C#, and C++
- Experience working on gaming-related projects
Full description
About The Company
General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time. We build large action models and world models that can perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments. General Intuition builds on the strength of Medal, the world's largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and discover new games every year. We've raised over $650M from Khosla, GC, Valor, and Point72 since October 2025, and recently closed our latest round at a $6.2B valuation.
The Role
You'll join a talented team of engineers experienced with large-scale applications, helping scale the platform to 100+ million users by building high-quality features that creators love and creating new experiences for the next generation of gamers. Most of your work will be in React on our Electron app, where you'll iterate quickly to see which features stick, working directly with leadership and our community to ship features regularly.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of frontend engineering experience
- Experience with React, Redux, Node, and Electron: You'll spend most of your time building things with React and will need to understand modern React practices and JavaScript in general
- Bonus to have full-stack XP: including Java, C#, and C++
- In-person: Looking to hire in NYC to contribute alongside the product team. 5 days in the office
- Ownership & attention to detail: You see things through, and can be responsible for end-to-end quality of complex features
- Code Performance: Excellent understanding of code performance implications in production and confident with profiling tools
- Be result-driven: Everything we do is driven by the metrics and performance of the feature. We move fast and ship regularly
- Measuring with metrics: Comfort with A/B testing and measuring results with usage metrics
- Gaming: A passion for games and the gaming communities, and a user of Discord and other gaming-adjacent products. XP working on gaming-related projects is a plus
Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD