Senior/Staff Software Engineer, UX Core Team

About Prepared

Emergency centers, vital to our society, are often constrained by technology that dates back to the landline era. This presents a stark contrast to our current smartphone-centric, socially connected world. At Prepared, we bridge this gap with cutting-edge technology that harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence to revolutionize how emergency calls are handled.  Our innovative technology is providing a suite of tools that significantly boost the capabilities of 911 dispatch centers and first responders. With our solutions implemented in over 800 cities across 48 states, we're positively impacting the lives of approximately 75 million people.

Backed by $27 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, we're scaling rapidly to become a core component of emergency calls nationwide, driving the future of emergency response toward a safer, more agile system.

Joining the Prepared team means more than just a new role. It's a chance to be at the forefront of impactful tech that significantly improves public safety and touches lives across the globe. At Prepared, you're not just part of a team; you're a key player in a larger mission to foster a safer, more interconnected world.

About this Role

We’re hiring a senior-level engineer to join our new UX Core team — a group focused on building the infrastructure, systems, and standards that empower product teams to deliver world-class user experiences. As one of the first hires on the UX Core team, you’ll be a key partner in shaping how we build, scale, and deliver exceptional front-end systems that others will build on.

This role is for someone who’s equal parts engineer and systems thinker — someone who sees UX as a shared responsibility and believes front-end excellence requires operational rigor, not just polish. You’ll partner closely with design, engineering, and platform teams to evolve our front-end architecture, scale our design system, and level up how we build for performance, accessibility, and consistency across every surface.

If you’re energized by creating the foundations others build on, enjoy working across disciplines, and love taking something ambiguous and turning it into something others can depend on — you’ll thrive here.

What you’ll do:

• Architect and scale the foundations of our front-end stack — from reusable component systems to cross-cutting concerns like performance, a11y, theming, and responsiveness.

• Drive operational excellence in how we deliver UX — building the workflows, standards, and tooling that enable high-quality product development at scale.

• Partner across disciplines with design, product, and platform engineers to solve complex problems and ship cohesive, reliable user experiences.

• Influence technical direction with Prepared Frontend, mentoring other engineers and collaborating on long-term strategy and roadmap.

• Enable and empower product teams through documentation, onboarding support, and contribution tooling that lowers the barrier to quality work.

What you’ll need:

• Has 5+ years of experience working on modern front-end applications, with deep fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS architecture, and component-based design.

• Understands the tradeoffs and challenges of scaling design systems in complex product environments.

• Has a track record of cross-functional collaboration, and elevating team-wide standards.

• Cares deeply about developer experience, accessibility, performance, and quality — and knows how to embed those values into workflows and systems.

• Thrives in ambiguous, 0→1 environments and is comfortable setting vision, creating structure, and iterating in the open.

Bonus points for:

• Experience working in or setting up monorepos, internal packages, or platform-level tooling.

• Familiarity with Storybook, design tooling APIs, or internal component registries.

• Contributions to platform teams, developer experience initiatives, or open-source libraries.

Pay Transparency

The base pay for this role is $180,000–$210,000 per year + company equity. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Prepared’s unlimited vacation program.

Benefits

🌎 Remote-First Culture
🩺 Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
💸 401k + Free Financial Advisors with Betterment
📱Monthly Cell Phone Stipend
🏖️ Unlimited Time Off + 15 Observed Holidays
🚼 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave (birthing + non-birthing parents)
🚨 Visit a PSAP (911 Center)
🏢 WeWork Membership for All Employees
✈️ Annual Company Offsite
🔮 AI Tools like ChatGPT + NotionAI
🏠 $500 Work from Home Budget

Want to learn more about Prepared? Check out the links below.

• Prepared, which wants to ‘revolutionize’ emergency 911 calls, raises $27M

• NBC Today Show | 911 callers can now share video of emergencies with dispatchers

• The Verge | iPhones will soon be able to stream live video on 911 calls

At Prepared, we are committed to building a safer and more connected world, and we believe that fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion is essential to achieving this mission. We are a proud equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We actively seek to create an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and everyone has the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to our mission of improving public safety and emergency response for all communities.