Frontend Software Engineer

About Collate

Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.

Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.

We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to define how people experience Collate. The work you do will translate cutting-edge AI into tools that feel simple, reliable, and human — even in the complex world of healthcare. From the very beginning, your fingerprints will be on the product experiences that doctors, patients, and researchers depend on.

Collate is a very Frontend heavy enterprise workflow application that is AI native (think Cursor). Customers need to trust the data we present to them and that means providing a high quality, clear and reliable interface to that data. You’ll be designing the layer where life-changing technology meets real people, in moments that matter to real patient outcomes.

Modern Tech Stack

• Collate uses modern TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS for frontend development. We use Next.js for progressive application rendering on the server and client.
• AI & ML code is written in Python, and Go is used for scalable web backend services.

What You’ll Do

• Build responsive, performant web applications that make complex AI-driven healthcare data simple, accessible and usable.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and backend engineers to bring ideas from concept to production. Own your own testing, own releasing software to production and monitor its life.
• Create reusable components and frontend infrastructure that scales with the team and product. New challenges arrive daily, always think ahead of the current designs.
• Obsess over details of interaction (create delight), accessibility (all people need access!), and performance (if it’s slow, it’s a no-go) to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Shape the look, feel, and usability of Collate’s products at a formative stage in the company’s journey. (high quality products need interfaces that are equally high quality to shine)
• Partner with backend and ML teams to integrate APIs and models into smooth and information rich interfaces for customers.
• Strong experience building modern web applications with React, TypeScript, or similar frameworks. ( Next.js and Tailwind experience is a plus!)
• A deep care for design, usability, and accessibility — you see frontend engineering as product design.
• The ability to translate complex, technical concepts into simple, intuitive user experiences.
• Comfort working across the stack when needed, with a passion for owning the frontend experience.
• A track record of shipping high-quality features quickly while maintaining technical rigor in complex systems.
• Motivation to work in an early-stage startup where your contributions directly shape both product and culture.