Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 269 days ago

Staff Front End Engineer

Zūm36 open roles

Pay
$240,000 – $280,000 a year
Where
Hybrid Remote/ Redwood City, CA
Work mode
Hybrid
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowStaff Front End EngineerZūm · Hybrid Remote/ Redwood City, CA

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Zūm's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Zūm postings stay open a median of 36 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.1%7 days
  4. 19.1%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 52.7%60 days
This job: posted 269 days ago

Zūm median: 36 days open

The posting

About Zūm:

Zūm is revolutionizing mass mobility with its Connected Mobility Experience (Zūm CMX™) system that connects and coordinates people, vehicles, and operations in real time. In the $50 billion student mobility market – the largest segment of the mass mobility industry – Zūm CMX is transforming a daily source of anxiety and disruption into a reliable, transparent, and efficient mobility experience for students and families. Today, more than 7,500 schools rely on Zūm CMX. Recognized globally for its innovative approach and operational execution, Zūm has been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, CNBC Disruptor 50 and Changemakers, the World Economic Forum, and the Financial Times’ Fastest Growing Companies lists. Zūm is backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, GIC, TPG, and Softbank.

This role is based at the Company’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA and requires you to be onsite 3x/week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday). We will only consider candidates already based in the Bay Area.

Who You Are: We're hiring our first HQ-based front end engineer who will lead front end technical direction for Zūm while staying hands-on as an individual contributor. This role operates as a technical lead; you'll set technical direction, make front end architecture decisions, and lead a team of engineers in Ukraine, while still writing code and shipping features yourself.

You'll own the front end behind our dispatch, school, vendor, and maps portals — enterprise, data-dense tools that districts, transportation vendors, and internal operations teams rely on to run complex logistics.

You'll work from HQ, in close collaboration with our local Product and Engineering teams. The Ukraine Front End team's hours overlap with HQ until roughly 11am PT, so this role doesn't require working offshore hours.

What You'll Do:

  • Own front end technical decisions and architecture across our Angular codebase, including patterns for state management and reactive UI (RxJS)
  • Lead the Ukraine-based front end team technically: set direction, unblock hard problems, and raise the bar on craft, while still writing production code
  • Work within an existing structure where PMs and backend teams drive most product and design direction, and Front End owns execution and technical quality
  • Partner closely with PMs (who work in Figma with design) and backend engineering to turn direction into shipped, reliable front end systems
  • Push the team's use of AI tooling forward, spotting where we're moving too slowly and driving the automation that changes that
  • Bring technical leadership to infrastructure-level front end work, not only user-facing feature delivery
  • Absorb the tech lead function currently split across two people and consolidate front end technical decision-making under one clear owner
  • Set architectural standards for how our Angular apps handle state, data density, and reactive patterns across dispatch, school, vendor, and maps portals
  • Identify where AI tooling could meaningfully speed up front end development and build the case (and the tooling) to get there
  • Mentor and technically lead engineers on the Ukraine-based team, working within overlapping HQ hours rather than offshore shifts
  • Build trust with PMs and backend leads so that front end execution stays fast and clean even as product direction comes from elsewhere

What You Bring To Zūm:

  • Senior+ or Staff-level front end engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership, not just individual contribution
  • Strong, hands-on experience with Angular; you should be able to step into our stack and start contributing quickly
  • Experience with reactive UI patterns and RxJS or equivalent observables-based architecture
  • Comfort building and owning enterprise, data-dense web applications, not consumer products or analytics dashboards
  • Experience technically leading or mentoring other engineers, ideally across a distributed team
  • Genuine interest in AI-driven automation, with real opinions on where a team could move faster
  • Experience stepping into or consolidating a tech lead function previously shared across multiple people (preferred)
  • Startup background (preferred; a plus, though not a strict requirement)
  • Experience with mobile web, not native mobile, not React Native (preferred)

Bonus Points:

  • Domain experience in mobility, logistics, fleet, or other operationally complex enterprise software
  • Experience with mapping or GPS-adjacent UI, relevant to our maps portal surface
  • Experience collaborating closely with design in Figma-based workflows

The targeted base salary range for this role is listed in the compensation section below. Actual salary may be above or below this range based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. In addition, this position may include additional compensation in the form of equity or commissions. If you are a full-time salaried or hourly worker, we offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Holidays, Wellness, Vacation, and more. The targeted pay range for this role in CA, USA is: $240,000 - $280,000 plus stock options.

Zūm Services, Inc. and all its subsidiaries provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Zūm's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Zūm's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Zūm's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.