Lead Frontend Engineer
About the role
We're looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to lead a distributed frontend team for a high-precision US tax preparation platform, where speed, accuracy and accessibility are critical. You'll unblock engineers, set frontend best practices and mentor the team while staying hands-on with React and TypeScript, owning features end to end from component architecture to production. You'll also collaborate with backend engineers and contribute to .NET services when needed.
What you'll do
- Lead day-to-day frontend work: planning, code reviews, unblocking and mentoring
- Define frontend architecture, standards and best practices
- Build high-performance, responsive and accessible interfaces in React and TypeScript
- Own features end to end, from component design to production
- Translate UX requirements into effective frontend solutions
- Collaborate with backend engineers and contribute to .NET services when needed
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years with React in production
- Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Team Lead or Engineering Manager, clearly documented in your resume
- Deep expertise in modern React (hooks, functional components, state management)
- Strong TypeScript, ES6+, REST APIs and asynchronous JavaScript
- Solid understanding of user-centered design
- C1 English or higher
Nice to have
- .NET / C#
- Jest and React Testing Library
- Experience in fintech, tax or other regulated domains
Location: Remote - Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Skills required for this job:
- .NET
- C#
- Fintech
- JavaScript
- Jest
- REST API
- React Testing Library
- React.js
- Software architecture
- State management
- Tech leadership
- TypeScript