Lead Software Engineer, Frontend - Growth & Monetization

Responsibilities

You will lead the frontend development for the Growth & Monetization team, setting the technical strategy for customer onboarding, activation, and value realization. You will be responsible for designing and shipping core product experiences while driving business outcomes through data-informed technical decisions.

Requirements

The role requires 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on React, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Candidates must have a proven track record of technical leadership, owning end-to-end product surfaces, and effectively communicating technical strategies to both engineering and business stakeholders.

Skills

• React
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Frontend architecture
• State management
• Accessibility
• Product engineering
• Growth strategy
• Monetization
• A/B testing
• Product analytics
• Behavioral instrumentation
• User experience design
• Technical leadership
• Mentorship
• Data-driven decision making

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Sick leave
• Free lunch
• Free snacks
• Free coffee
• Professional development stipend
• Hardware project stipend
• Annual company retreat
• Parental leave
• Fertility and family planning
• Wellness stipend
• Hardware sensor stipend
• 401(k)
• Equity

About this role

ABOUT NOMINAL

Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has
ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.

Nominal is building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers
increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better
decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It
brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware
engineering requires to meet the AI moment. Hardware engineering teams use
Nominal to simulate, test, manufacture, and operate the physical systems that
keep the world moving, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to
next-generation energy systems and robotics.

Our customers span aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy,
and robotics. They include Anduril, Shield AI, Wisk Aero, Pratt Miller
Motorsports, Antares, and Shinkei Systems, amongst others, alongside programs
within the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir,
Anduril, Applied Intuition, Tesla, and other leading companies, united by a
common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with
speed, safety, and confidence. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems
end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of
hardware and software.

Some of the world’s leading technology investors, including Sequoia, Lightspeed,
Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, and Insight Partners, are backing
Nominal’s ambition to change how machines are built and operated. We’re looking
for engineers who want to take on hard problems and help make a new generation
of world-changing hardware possible.

🧭 ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a product-minded engineer to set the technical direction for
how customers discover, adopt and realize value from Nominal.

You'll lead the frontend side of our new Growth & Monetization team, working at
the intersection of product engineering, infrastructure and business strategy.
Our scope spans the entire customer journey, from self-serve signup and
onboarding to pricing and billing infrastructure, intelligent notifications,
product discovery and customer value realization. We're also exploring how AI
can transform these experiences, whether that's personalizing onboarding,
proactively guiding customers toward deeper platform adoption, helping customers
understand the value they're getting from Nominal or automating business value
assessments to support renewals and expansion.

You'll own what customers see and touch: signup, onboarding, checkout and the
in-product experiences that show them the value they're getting.

This is a role for someone who decides what's worth building, not just how to
build it. You'll identify growth constraints, set the goals the team executes
toward and be the technical authority for customer-facing growth experiences
across Nominal. You'll be hands-on from day one, designing, building and
shipping the core experiences yourself, and your work will directly shape how
customers adopt the platform, discover new capabilities and expand their
relationship with Nominal. You'll own the business outcomes as well as the
technical decisions. As the team grows around you, there's a path to leading it,
but the first job is building the foundation. You'll work closely with product,
design and go-to-market leadership and have direct exposure to the business
leaders whose outcomes depend on this work.

🚀 WHAT YOU'LL DO

* Set the technical strategy for customer-facing growth experiences. Own the
roadmap for onboarding, activation, checkout and value-realization surfaces,
and decide what gets built, in what order and why.
* Identify and unlock growth opportunities. Find the technical and product
constraints across acquisition, activation, retention and monetization,
decide which are worth solving and measure the business impact of solving
them.
* Build the core experiences yourself. Design, ship and iterate on the first
versions of the surfaces this team owns, and set the patterns the engineers
who follow will build on.
* Make customer value tangible. Build the dashboards, visualizations and
interactive experiences that communicate business outcomes, highlight
adoption milestones and show customers where to get more value.
* Build frictionless customer journeys. Own the signup, onboarding, checkout
and activation experiences that get customers started quickly.
* Drive product discovery and engagement. Build in-product notifications,
feature announcements, contextual guidance and personalized nudges toward
deeper adoption.
* Enable self-serve monetization. Build the experiences for payments, usage
visibility, trials and upgrades that make it easy for customers to expand.
* Build AI-native growth experiences. Create the intelligent, personalized
product experiences that guide customers to outcomes and recommend next
steps.
* Set the engineering bar for a new function. Establish the standards, review
practices and operating norms the team works to, and help shape who joins it
as it grows.

🔍 We're looking for someone with

* 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building polished,
production-grade web applications, including owning onboarding, checkout or
activation surfaces across multiple teams and defining what those teams
built, not just how.
* Strong experience in React, TypeScript and JavaScript, with an emphasis on
performance, maintainability and high-quality user experiences.
* You've tech-led a team or formally mentored engineers, set the standard
others worked to and been accountable for what the group delivered.
* You've been the person other teams come to for decisions on frontend
architecture and user experience in your domain, and you've owned the
tradeoffs across engineering, product and design.
* Deep understandi...

About Nominal

Software Development · 201-500 employees · headquartered in Austin, TX · founded 2022