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Ideogram

Staff Frontend Engineer

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In-Office
Toronto, ON
Senior level
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Toronto, ON
Senior level
The Staff Frontend Engineer will develop high-impact user-facing features, improve frontend foundations, and mentor the team while ensuring polished UI and efficient rendering.
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About Ideogram

Ideogram’s mission is to make world-class design accessible to everyone, multiplying human creativity. We build proprietary generative media models and AI native creative workflows, tackling unsolved challenges in graphic design. Our team includes builders with a track record of technology breakthroughs including early research in Diffusion Models, Google’s Imagen, and Imagen Video. We care about design, taste, and craft as much as research and engineering – shipping experiences that creatives actually love.

We’ve raised nearly $100M, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Headquartered in Toronto with a growing team in NYC, we're scaling fast, aiming to triple over the next year. We're a flat team with a culture of high ownership, collaboration, and mentorship.

Explore Ideogram 3.0, Canvas, and Character blog posts, and try Ideogram at ideogram.ai.

The Opportunity
  • Ship high-impact, user-facing features end-to-end: from design review and scoping to implementation, release, and iteration.

  • Partner with designers to translate intent into implementation details and refine UX through fast iteration. Build pixel-perfect, responsive UI with excellent attention to layout, typography, motion, and interaction states.

  • Improve frontend foundations: reusable component patterns, state/data flows, error handling, and overall maintainability.

  • Raise standards via code reviews, mentorship, and pragmatic best practices that help a small team move quickly.

  • Improve how the product feels in real usage: smooth interactions, reliable UI behavior, efficient rendering, and healthy build/bundle setup.

What We’re Looking For
  • 5+ years building production web applications (or equivalent depth).

  • Deep experience with React + TypeScript and modern frontend tooling.

  • Strong craft and execution: consistently delivers polished UI with good structure and maintainability.

  • Excellent HTML/CSS fundamentals and sharp visual implementation skills.

  • Strong product judgment and communication: can align with design/product, make tradeoffs, and deliver.

  • Comfortable with a fast-paced, high-ownership cadence—someone who can push through ambiguity, go deep when needed, and consistently drive work to completion.

Nice-to-have
  • Practical experience improving build/bundle strategy and runtime performance, including experience with SSR to improve real-world performance.

  • Experience building interactive graphics-heavy UIs (canvas/WebGL), creative tooling, or computational-geometry-style features.

  • Experience guiding architecture decisions and mentoring engineers.

Our Culture

We’re a team of exceptionally talented, curious builders who love solving tough problems and turning bold ideas into reality. We move fast, collaborate deeply, and operate without unnecessary hierarchy, because we believe the best ideas can come from anyone.

Everyone at Ideogram rolls up their sleeves to make our products and our customers successful. We thrive on curiosity, creativity, and shared ownership. We believe that small, dedicated teams working together with trust and purpose can move faster, think bigger, and create amazing things.

Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone — regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to create belonging and remove barriers so everyone can create boldly.

What We Offer

💸Competitive compensation and equity designed to recognize the value and impact of your contributions to Ideogram’s success.
🌴 4 weeks of vacation to recharge and explore.
🩺 Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage starting on day one.
💰 RRSP/401(k) with employer match up to 4% to invest in your future from the moment you join.
💻 Top-of-the-line tools and tech to fuel your creativity and productivity.
📍 Toronto HQ perks: Steps from Union Station and the PATH, with daily in-office lunches and dinners.
🔍 Autonomy to explore and experiment — whether you’re testing new ideas, running large-scale experiments, or diving into research, you’ll have access to compute/resources you need when there’s a clear business or creative use case. We encourage curiosity and bold thinking.
🌱 A culture of learning and growth, where curiosity is encouraged and mentorship is part of the journey.

Top Skills

CSS
HTML
React
Typescript

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