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Career | Lead Software Engineer - Frontend | Sense

Lead Software Engineer - Frontend

Sense

Bangalore, IN

Job Type: Full-Time
Function: Web/Graphic Design/Internet
Industry: Enterprise
Post Date: 06/01/2026
Website: www.sensehq.com
Company Address: 225 Bush St, San Francisco, CA, 94104

About Sense

Senseâ€”the leading AI-powered Talent Engagement Platformâ€” redefines the recruitment process by seamlessly blending personalized, omnichannel candidate experiences with enhanced recruiter efficiency.

Job Description

About Us

Sense is transforming the way companies hire with AI-powered technology designed to bring unprecedented speed, precision, and personalization to every step of the recruiting process. Our mission is to reimagine how organizations engage with talent—creating faster, smarter, and more human experiences for employers, recruiters, and job seekers alike.

Founded in 2015, Sense is a high-growth HR Tech SaaS company serving over 1,000 customers worldwide. With 250+ team members and backing from Google Ventures, SoftBank, Accel, and Avataar Ventures, we’ve scaled rapidly and continue to lead innovation in talent engagement and automation.

Our diverse and collaborative team is tackling one of the most universal challenges in the workforce—helping people find meaningful work faster. At Sense, you’ll have the opportunity to shape innovative AI solutions that are changing how the world hires, impacting millions of careers globally. Join us in building the future of hiring.

Job Description

As a part of the Sense team, you’ll play an active role in shaping and developing our products and processes. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs with a history of building, scaling, and successfully exiting large companies. At Sense, your career goals will be supported through active mentorship and learning and development opportunities. We’re an experienced team and looking for great people to add to our team.We care deeply about the success of our customers and strive to help them achieve their goals in inspiring and engaging with their workforce. Sense is seeking a Senior or Lead Frontend Engineer to deliver our contractor communication platform to the world’s best places to work.

As a Frontend Engineer at Sense, you’ll be intimately involved with bringing features from idea to completion, and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.

You’ll join a collaborative, fun team where everyone, including you, is active in the product defining and development process. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs and have built and scaled large companies. By working with them, you will have the front row seat to see how a company grows and scales. We want to support your career goals, whether it remains here or beyond. Interested in knowing how product management or sales work? Let’s have you sit in on actual sales calls. Wondering how to grow engineering teams in a high growth company? We’ll directly mentor you and you’ll learn from those who’ve been at multiple successful companies. Sense is a rapidly scaling company making this the best environment to take on ownership as well as learning how to grow a company.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with our design and product teams to implement and iterate on features for Sense.

Break down complex problems into solvable pieces of work for other Engineers.

Meaningfully contribute to the product by suggesting improvements and thinking through features with the whole team.

Document and educate the rest of the team on front-end best practices

Contribute to the ongoing development and upkeep of our design system

Provide product ownership and mentor a team of talented Frontend Engineers

Build and maintain crisp, consistent interfaces for our customers

Lead code reviews, pairing sessions, and architecture discussions

Responsibility for several large-scale ReactJS web applications

Work closely with our cross-functional teams consisting of designers, product managers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced environment

Implement and maintain features such as Chat interfaces and data visualisations

Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions

Participate in interviews and hiring as we staff up our team

Job Requirement

Demonstrated ownership of the product and mentoring other Frontend Engineers

Expert proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Proficiency in React AND/OR equivalent modern UI framework. 

Experience with modern JavaScript libraries, syntax, and tooling. Familiarity with a server side web framework. A strong product design sense and ability to build products from scratch. 

Hands-on experience with design systems A demonstrated interest and desire to build beautiful and performant front-end experience

6 to 8 years of professional Javascript development experience

Experience developing websites consuming various APIs from a microservice backend system

Experience writing testable code and maintaining test infrastructure

Exceptional coding, debugging, and architecting skills, with an eye for maintainability, reliability, and performance

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with TypeScript

Experience with WebSockets

Experience with Canvas, SVG, or animation

Experience in a high growth startup environment

Additional Information – Perks & Benefits

Equity
Medical insurance for employees and dependents
Quarterly Professional Development allowance
Company Wellness Days (On months without holidays, you are still given a 3-day weekend)

Sense is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that diversity, inclusion, and belonging are integral to our success and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, age, or any other basis protected by law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.