Frontend Engineer

The Role

You build the interfaces people interact with across Kuykendall Industries projects. Client applications, dashboards, real-time communication UIs, developer-facing tools — wherever a KI-direct project needs a frontend, you're the one building it.

This is a cross-project role. You'll move between different products and contexts depending on where the highest-impact frontend work lives.

Responsibilities

• Build fast, intuitive client applications across KI-direct projects
• Implement real-time interfaces — live data, WebSocket-driven UIs, collaborative features
• Own the full frontend stack from component architecture to performance optimization
• Work closely with backend engineers on API contracts and data flow
• Ensure accessibility, responsiveness, and cross-platform compatibility

Requirements

• 5+ years frontend engineering with real-time application experience
• Framework depth. Deep proficiency in modern frontend frameworks — React, Svelte, or equivalent
• Performance obsessed. You profile, measure, and optimize. You don't ship slow interfaces
• Real-time experience. WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, or similar. You've built UIs that update live
• Design sensibility. You can take a rough spec and build something that looks and feels right without a designer hovering

Compensation

Equity in Kuykendall Industries and salary upon revenue. No salary today. This is a bootstrapped company. The founder has been building everything without funding, without a team, and without a paycheck from this entity. You enter that same environment.

Who this works for: Someone with savings, consulting income, or another reason they can afford to work for equity in the near term. Someone who looks at the scope of what's been built, understands the commercial potential, and makes a calculated bet.

Who this does not work for: Someone who needs a paycheck on day one. Someone who treats equity as a consolation prize. No judgment — but don't waste your time or ours.

The Builder Clause

We don't care where you went to school. We don't care if you went to school. Our founder is self-taught, started coding at 13, and built a 602,000-line cognitive architecture without a CS degree.

Meet the qualifications, or show us what you've built. Either path works. Both paths demand excellence.

Apply

Ready to move? Send a short note of relevant proof-of-work — past shipped projects, metrics you moved, or a draft of your first 30 days.