Frontend Lead

We're seeking a front-end lead to establish and drive front-end engineering excellence at Advanced Infrastructure. Reporting directly to the CTO, you'll lead our front-end team through a critical architectural transformation, migrating from a monolithic deployment to a micro-frontend architecture while building a culture of engineering best practices and scalable development processes.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both architectural vision and deep technical expertise in modern React ecosystems, geospatial visualisation, and scalable front-end infrastructure.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Technical Leadership and Architecture:

• Lead the architectural transformation from monolithic to micro-frontend deployment, evaluating and implementing approaches such as module federation, single-spa, or other micro-frontend patterns.
• Drive componentisation initiatives and establish a comprehensive design system that enables modularity and reusability across the platform.
• Architect and optimise real-time geospatial data visualisation solutions using Deck.gl and Tegola, ensuring high performance for large-scale dataset rendering
• Design and implement complex workflow systems for scenario modelling and computational analysis within the browser
• Collaborate directly with the CTO, system architect, and staff engineers on system architecture decisions and technical strategy.
• Take complete ownership of the existing TypeScript/React codebase, understanding current architecture, identifying technical debt, and planning strategic refactoring efforts.

Engineering Standards and Quality:

• Establish and enforce industry-standard practices for component design patterns and modularity, TypeScript best practices and type safety, and code organisation and architectural patterns.
• Performance optimisation for data-intensive applications.
• Responsive and accessible UI development.
• Implement comprehensive observability and monitoring solutions: Front-end error tracking and crash reporting, performance monitoring (bundle size, render performance, and runtime metrics), user interaction analytics, and real-time dashboard health monitoring.
• Set up robust code review processes, testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build alerting systems to identify and address production issues proactively.

Team Management and Culture:

• Manage and mentor the front-end / full-stack engineering team, fostering technical growth and engineering excellence.
• Establish a collaborative engineering culture focused on: Knowledge sharing and documentation, continuous improvement and learning, code quality and craftsmanship, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead technical planning sessions and R& D initiatives for new components, libraries, and architectural improvements.
• Partner with the CTO to scale front-end engineering practices, processes, and team structure.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development discussions.

Delivery and Innovation:

• Lead refactoring efforts to improve codebase maintainability, performance, and developer experience.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies and approaches that enhance dashboard efficacy and user experience.
• Drive initiatives to improve front-end build processes, deployment pipelines, and development workflows.
• Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery and business priorities.

The core requirements for the job include the following:

Technical Expertise:

• 4+ years of front-end engineering experience with at least 2 years leading engineering teams.
• Expert-level knowledge of React (latest versions) and TypeScript.
• Strong experience with state management libraries (Zustand, Redux).
• Proven track record of leading architectural migrations, particularly from monolithic to modular/microservice architectures.
• Experience building and maintaining component libraries and design systems.
• Deep understanding of performance optimisation techniques for data-intensive, real-time applications.
• Strong knowledge of modern build tools and bundlers (Webpack, Vite, esbuild, Rollup).
• Experience establishing observability, monitoring, and error tracking for production front-end applications.

Geospatial and Visualisation:

• Experience with geospatial visualisation libraries (DeckGL strongly preferred or Mapbox and Leaflet).
• Understanding of geospatial data formats and tile servers (experience with Tegola is a plus).
• Experience building data visualisation dashboards with real-time data updates.
• Familiarity with WebGL and GPU-accelerated rendering for large datasets.

Leadership and Process:

• Demonstrated ability to establish engineering standards and best practices from the ground up.
• Experience setting up code review processes, testing frameworks, and quality gates.
• Strong technical communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery.