Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. With Metronome, companies can launch products faster, offer any pricing model, and streamline finance workflows without writing code.
Our platform computes millions of invoices per billing period and is scaling rapidly to accommodate new customers, saving them hours of development time and manual invoicing and enabling them to use consumption data to better serve their customers. Our customers love our product and approach, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like OpenAI, Databricks, NVIDIA, Confluent, and Anthropic.
You'll be joining an experienced team that includes founders who have successfully built and sold startups before. Our founders and employees also have direct experience building and scaling teams through massive growth at companies like Dropbox, Clever, and New Relic. On the back of this experience and our success-to-date, we’ve raised over $128M from leading investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and Workday Ventures. We’re also proud to have founders and executives of companies like Segment, Plaid, Looker, Gitlab, Confluent, HashiCorp, and Snowflake, as investors who have experienced the pain we're solving firsthand.
Metronome is looking for a Frontend Architect to take ownership of our frontend web platform. You’ll guide the migration and modernization of our web platform, shape our frontend architecture, and set the bar for how we ship UI across the product.
This role combines deep technical ownership with cross-functional influence. You’ll partner with design leadership to harness contributions from our design team, who actively ship frontend code, and turn that energy into a structured task force that drives polish and velocity across pillars.
Your work will directly shape how every customer experiences Metronome’s product.
What You’ll Do- Lead frontend foundations & ownership: Set the strategy and standards for how frontend is built, maintained, and owned across multiple pillars. Ensure consistency, velocity, and polish are upheld in every client-facing surface.
- Drive design system adoption: Align Figma, Storybook, and code. Set defaults that make the system easy to use, extend, and maintain.
- Raise quality: Put testing, review, and linting practices in place so high-quality UI becomes the default.
- Mentor & multiply: Coach engineers and designers on building polished, accessible UI. Organize design’s coding contributions into a structured, leveraged task force.
- Elevate client trust: Ensure our frontend polish, interaction standards, and performance reflect the strength of our systems. directly impacting sales, onboarding, and retention.
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, with significant time spent in React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and modern component library architecture.
- Experience leading frontend migrations, refactors, or design system overhauls at scale. We love Pinterest, Dropbox, Linear as design system best-in-class examples.
- Deep understanding of accessibility, performance optimization, testing, and interaction fidelity.
- Proven collaboration with design teams on design system evolution; comfortable working in both Figma and Storybook.
- Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions across engineering, design, product, and leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical leader or architect, setting standards across product areas.
- Growth mindset and openness to collaboration, especially with design, who are active contributors to frontend code.
- Experience introducing opinionated component APIs, semantic tokens, or scalable design tokens.
- Past work on enterprise or developer-focused products where polish and trust directly affected adoption.
- Experience shaping contribution models and governance for frontend systems.
- Comfort balancing feature velocity with long-term system health.
The estimated base salary range for this role is $196,800 - $246,000. In addition to your base salary, Metronome offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched equity, sales incentive pay (for eligible roles), comprehensive health benefits, and other benefits listed below.
The actual base salary will vary based on factors including market value, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, and previous experience. The listed range above should serve as a guideline and may be modified at any time.
We believe that compensation reflects the expected impact you will have at the company, relative to the market value of your role. We also conduct an annual pay audit to ensure pay is fair, indexed to market value, and that pay takes into account continued performance at Metronome. If you would like to learn more about our philosophy or about why we are all billing nerds, send us a message. We’d love to talk!
for Full-time employees:
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage, including a One Medical membership
- Paid parental leave
- FSA (Flexible spending account)
- Retirement planning - Traditional and ROTH 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Employee assistance program (mental health benefits)
- Culture where personal growth is highly valued
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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