Senior Frontend Developer (Aevum AI)
Summary
Build and own the Next.js/React frontend for a compliance SaaS that auto-generates AI Act “Compliance Passports,” integrating with FastAPI backends and Google OAuth.
Senior Frontend Developer (Aevum AI)
About Aevum AI
Aevum AI is an early-stage, founder-led technology company building a compliance SaaS platform for the EU AI Act.
The product automatically generates “Compliance Passports” - structured documentation packages that AI vendors and deployers need to demonstrate regulatory compliance. These packages may include Model Cards, Risk Assessments, RACI Matrices, Data Lineage Reports, Control Logs, and Executive Sign-off Declarations.
Aevum AI is currently building its core product toward pilot customers and seed funding, giving engineers the opportunity to shape the user experience and product foundation from an early stage.
The Position
We are looking for an experienced Frontend Developer to join Aevum AI and take ownership of the complete user-facing product experience.
In this role, you will design and build a clean, responsive, and production-ready interface for the Compliance Passport platform. You will work closely with the founder and a backend counterpart to transform product requirements into intuitive user flows and polished frontend experiences.
The role combines strong React and Next.js engineering with product thinking, UI/UX ownership, API integration, and frontend architecture.
Team Composition & Collaboration
You’ll work closely with:
- The Founder and Product Owner
- Backend Developer
- Technical leadership as the engineering team grows
- Compliance and business stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain the Next.js frontend application
- Develop clean, responsive, and accessible user interfaces
- Create intuitive user flows for the Compliance Passport product
- Translate product requirements into polished, production-grade UI
- Integrate the frontend application with FastAPI REST APIs
- Implement and manage Google OAuth authentication state
- Build protected routes, role-based interfaces, and secure frontend flows
- Own frontend architecture and reusable component structure
- Maintain consistent UI/UX patterns across the platform
- Build and maintain design-system components or shared component libraries
- Optimize frontend performance, loading behaviour, and responsiveness
- Ensure accessibility and usability across different devices and browsers
- Build forms, dashboards, workflows, tables, and document-based interfaces
- Support data visualization where required
- Maintain frontend CI/CD processes and deployments on Vercel
- Troubleshoot frontend, API integration, authentication, and production issues
- Collaborate with the backend developer on API contracts and system workflows
- Work directly with the founder on product, design, and user-experience decisions
- Contribute to frontend engineering standards and best practices
Must-Have
- Strong commercial frontend development experience
- Strong production experience with React
- Hands-on experience with Next.js
- Proven track record of shipping production-ready user interfaces
- Experience building responsive and accessible web applications
- Strong understanding of modern frontend architecture and component-based development
- Experience integrating frontend applications with REST APIs
- Experience implementing authentication flows and managing authentication state
- Good understanding of Google OAuth or similar authentication solutions
- Strong eye for UI quality, consistency, and product polish
- Experience working with complex forms, dashboards, tables, or workflow-based interfaces
- Experience maintaining and deploying applications on Vercel or a similar platform
- Understanding of frontend performance optimization
- Ability to independently own frontend technical and product decisions
- Comfortable working in a small, early-stage product team
- Clear written English and the ability to communicate effectively with a non-technical founder and backend counterpart
- Experience building or maintaining design systems
- Experience with component libraries
- Experience with data visualization and charting tools
- Experience with B2B SaaS, enterprise dashboards, or workflow-based products
- Experience with document-management or compliance platforms
- Experience with Supabase authentication
- Experience with EU AI Act, RegTech, LegalTech, or compliance-related products
- Previous experience in an early-stage startup
- Experience building an MVP or frontend product from scratch
- Experience working directly with founders or non-technical product owners
- Strong product mindset
- High level of ownership and accountability
- Strong attention to detail and visual quality
- Ability to work effectively with unclear or evolving requirements
- Proactive approach to product and UX improvements
- Ability to balance speed, usability, and technical quality
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Independent problem-solving mindset
- Comfortable making recommendations rather than only following specifications
- User-focused approach to frontend development
…and of course, your benefits:
- Opportunity to build the complete frontend experience of a new SaaS product
- Direct involvement in product, design, and architecture decisions
- Modern frontend stack
- Opportunity to shape the UI/UX and design foundation from an early stage
- High level of technical and product ownership
- Close collaboration with the founder and backend engineer
- Long-term opportunity as the product and engineering team grow
- Meaningful early-stage equity opportunity