What's the salary range?

Kikoff lists $307,000–$352,000 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Engineer - Web Applications role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: React.

What seniority level is this role?

Kikoff targets staff-level candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Staff Engineer - Web Applications role at Kikoff.

Staff Engineer - Web Applications at Kikoff

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Engineer for Web Applications at Kikoff is responsible for overseeing the technical strategy and architecture of the company's frontend systems, ensuring optimal performance and reliability for high-traffic surfaces. The position requires extensive experience with frontend performance tuning, React, and the ability to lead cross-team projects while mentoring other engineers. This role is suited for seasoned professionals with a strong background in consumer-facing web applications and a proven track record of driving measurable improvements. Kikoff's fast-paced environment emphasizes collaboration and craftsmanship, making it ideal for those who thrive in startup sett

Joblaze insights

Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 28, 2026. Last confirmed on Kikoff's careers page September 28, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for Frontend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 100% of 16 comparable staff frontend roles in United States that list React we track (median $198,200 across 11 companies). See React salary trends

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: Kikoff lists $307,000–$352,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Engineer - Web Applications role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: React.
What seniority level is this role?: Kikoff targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Staff Engineer - Web Applications role at Kikoff.

From the original posting

Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.

We're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to raise the technical bar for our company-wide web product surfaces, spanning Kikoff, Grant, and the products we build next, all in service of our mission to help millions of Americans.

This role goes beyond shipping features. You'll own the health, performance, and architecture of the frontend systems that serve our traffic at scale every day. You'll set technical direction, drive the frontend infrastructure roadmap, and treat performance as a product feature. Like everyone here, you'll work hand-in-hand with PMs, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to make sure what we ship is fast, reliable, and moves the needle in a meaningful, measurable way.

What you'll be doing:

Own the technical strategy and architecture of Kikoff's company-wide web frontend across Kikoff, Grant, and future products, including component systems, state management, rendering strategy, routing, and build/deploy pipelines
Own performance tuning for our highest-traffic surfaces: instrumentation, performance budgets, profiling, and optimization of Core Web Vitals, load times, and runtime responsiveness
Lead frontend infrastructure work (tooling, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, testing, developer experience) so that every engineer can ship high quality, performant UI by default
Build and evolve the shared UI components and libraries that product teams build on, and set frontend standards and code review practices across the org
Lead complex, cross-team projects that measurably improve the reliability, responsiveness, and polish of our product
Mentor engineers across the team and raise the technical bar

Requirements:

B.A. / B.S. / M.S. or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science
8+ years of industry experience, with a track record of leading large consumer facing web applications across multiple teams
Experience building and operating consumer websites at scale, serving hundreds of thousands to millions of users, where performance and reliability directly affect the business
Deep hands-on experience with frontend performance tuning: profiling, instrumentation, bundle optimization, rendering performance, caching/CDN strategy, and performance budgets
Experience owning frontend infrastructure: build systems, design systems, observability, testing frameworks, and developer tooling that make other engineers more productive
Hands-on and Deep experience with React in production
A record of driving measurable improvements in quality and performance (load times, error rates, test coverage, reliability)
Ability to influence technical direction and get alignment across teams without direct authority
Ability to analyze data and distill information for business purposes
Desire to form strong professional bonds with startup-forward coworkers

Base Range

$307,000—$352,000 USD

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Standard company text repeated across Kikoff's postings is omitted here.

Staff Engineer - Web Applications

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