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Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team

Open 25d

You will provide technical leadership for the frontend platform, define its architecture and standards, and guide technical direction. You will lead delivery, modernization, testing, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cross-functional platform integration while coaching engineers and communicating technical trade-offs.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership for the frontend platform, defining architecture, coding standards, and long-term technical direction.
  • Coach, mentor, and manage approximately eight developers.
  • Partner with other Tech Leads to ensure architectural alignment, consistent standards, and unified decision-making.
  • Oversee planning and execution of platform features and improvements.
  • Drive modernization, refactoring, and performance enhancements.
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices for coding, documentation, testing, and reviews.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and platform teams.
  • Ensure automated test coverage and reliable CI/CD workflows.
  • Leverage automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and improve consistency.
  • Own incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
  • Advocate for scalability, performance, security, and observability.
  • Identify technical risks, estimate complexity, and communicate trade-offs.
  • Align with engineering teams on shared services, APIs, rendering pipelines, and platform interfaces.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience with modern frontend engineering at scale.
  • At least 3 years in a similar Tech Lead role.
  • Hands-on knowledge of React, including component architecture, SSR patterns, RSC, and complex UI data flows.
  • Proficiency with Node.js and MongoDB.
  • Understanding of modern styling systems, theming approaches, vanilla-extract, styled-components, and design tokens.
  • TypeScript practices, including strict typing, shared contracts, and schema validation with Zod or equivalent.
  • Experience with Module Federation.
  • Understanding of bundling and compilation with webpack, Rollup, Vite, or esbuild.
  • Experience with Vitest or Jest and end-to-end testing with Playwright or Cypress.
  • Understanding of backend integration patterns, including REST, GraphQL, and RPC-style APIs.
  • Experience with CI/CD workflows, GitLab CI or similar, private registries, and secure artifact handling.
  • Ability to lead engineers, own architectural decisions, and manage delivery for complex platform projects.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Paid time off

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