Senior Software Engineer I

Braze

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York City, NY
Salary
$128,842–$209,368 / yr
Posted
17 days ago
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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $170k
This role $169k
$107k most similar roles pay here $239k

This role pays less than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $149,875–$189,212 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $169k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Braze

Braze is a leading cloud-based customer engagement platform that enables brands to foster human connection with consumers through interactive, real-time, cross-channel marketing.

Braze currently has 108 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,000–$234,000 across 107 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer I

As a Senior Software Engineer I on the Frontend Infrastructure & Experience team, you will build foundational systems, components, and tools that serve as the platform base for all product engineers. You will lead large projects from design through rollout, focusing on creating polished, accessible, and consistent user interfaces while improving developer experience within a large codebase. Your daily work involves developing marketing message editors, managing the navigation and routing layer, and building type-safe scaffolding and API tooling. The role requires expertise in TypeScript and React, with additional experience using Cypress, Jest, RSpec, and Ruby on Rails. You will solve complex frontend problems such as internationalization, localization, and performance optimization to ensure a seamless user experience within the core product's data tables, rich text editors, and drag-and-drop components.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $212500 from 219 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build foundational frontend systems, components, tools, and patterns used by engineers across the organization.
  • Lead large projects end-to-end including technical design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operational follow-through.
  • Improve developer experience in a large TypeScript and React codebase through better abstractions, tooling, and documentation.
  • Build polished, accessible, and performant customer-facing product experiences that meet company standards.
  • Partner with product engineers, designers, and infrastructure teams to solve cross-cutting frontend problems.
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and clear communication.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of technical impact.
  • Must be highly skilled in modern frontend development, specifically with TypeScript and React.
  • Must have experience building reusable frontend systems, components, tools, or infrastructure.
  • Must be able to work effectively within large frontend codebases involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Experience building design systems or component libraries (preferred).
  • Experience with frontend testing frameworks such as Cypress or Jest (preferred).
  • Experience with code generation, linting, codemods, or other developer tooling (preferred).
  • Experience with internationalization, localization, accessibility, or Ruby on Rails (preferred).

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