Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Modern SaaS products increasingly compete on discoverability and governance of data assets, not just storage or compute. This role sits in that layer, focused on catalog and discovery experiences that help enterprises navigate complex data estates. The listing also signals an “AI first” re-architecture, which is a common inflection point for established SaaS platforms updating core workflows like search, assistance, and navigation rather than shipping isolated features.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps to durable problems: building customer-facing surfaces that must stay usable as datasets, permissions, and integrations multiply. End-to-end ownership across design, implementation, rollout, and iteration reflects how mature SaaS teams operate, where frontend decisions affect adoption, support load, and product velocity. The emphasis on quality, performance, accessibility, and observability aligns with expectations for multi-tenant, high-usage applications.
This is best suited to an engineer who enjoys pairing product thinking with technical leadership, and who prefers influencing standards through architecture and mentorship as much as writing code. It fits someone comfortable collaborating closely with PM, design, and backend partners, and who values operational responsibility for keeping critical user journeys reliable over time.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
Snowflake is at the forefront of the data and AI revolution - with a mission to help every company achieve its full potential with data & AI. The Horizon catalog serves as the central hub which enables customers to manage their complete data assets, both within and outside of Snowflake. We are building a platform that empowers organizations to seamlessly discover, access, and manage their entire data estate and integrate it with cutting-edge applications, and intelligent AI agents.
We are in the midst of rearchitecting our catalog and discovery platforms to become AI first which includes reimagining the user experience, introducing conversational search and an assistance experience. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and driving customer value.
This is a high-impact role where you will have a direct impact on the product, be the UI tech lead with an opportunity to grow your skills in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
AS A FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Lead and contribute to high-impact initiatives that span Catalog and discovery product areas and our tech stack, including TypeScript, React, NodeJS, and Go
Own complex features end-to-end: from collaborating on product requirements and UX, to technical design, implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing iteration.
Partner closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver cross-functional initiatives that improve Catalog discovery, lineage, and explorer experiences.
Set and raise the bar for frontend engineering quality, including code quality, testing, accessibility, performance, observability, and maintainability.
Design and build for scale and high performance, ensuring catalog experiences remain fast and reliable as usage and complexity grow.
Provide technical leadership within the team, driving architectural decisions for frontend systems and influencing broader frontend best practices across the org.
Mentor and uplevel other engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews, pairing, and design feedback to help junior engineers grow.
Contribute to and evolve shared UI components and patterns so we can build consistently great experiences across Snowflake surfaces.
Participate in on-call and operational excellence, helping to keep Marketplace experiences reliable and proactively improving our monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
OUR IDEAL FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
5+ years of industry experience designing and building scalable web applications with great user experience.
Deep frontend experience and proficiency with TypeScript, React (including hooks), and modern frontend tooling (bundlers, testing frameworks, linting, etc.).
Experience working across the stack with NodeJS and ideally some exposure to Go and backend APIs.
Deep understanding of modern web application architecture, including:
Component-driven design and state management
Performance optimization (network, rendering, and runtime)
Security best practices for web applications
Reliability, observability, and scalability considerations
Demonstrated experience owning medium-to-large projects or subsystems, including driving technical design, managing trade-offs, and delivering incremental value.
Passion for building world-class customer-facing products and sweating the details of UX and UI polish.
Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills, including the ability to articulate trade-offs and drive alignment across stakeholders.
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
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