Lead Engineer - Frontend

Job Description

We are seeking a Lead Front-End Engineer to drive excellence in front-end development and user experience for our high-scale SaaS platform . This role will be instrumental in shaping the front-end architecture, defining best practices ensuring high performance, security, and accessibility standards, and mentoring engineers . You will collaborate closely with backend engineers, product teams, UX designers, and platform engineers to ensure our applications are scalable, resilient, and user-friendly . You will also work with New Relic and Google Lighthouse to monitor front-end performance and observability. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership: Define and establish front-end engineering best practices, including architecture, performance optimization, and maintainability. Front-End Architecture: Design and implement scalable, modular component architectures using ReactJS and optimize UI performance using tools like Google Lighthouse. Collaboration with Backend & BFF Teams: Work with backend teams to design API interactions that balance efficiency and security, without overloading the front-end. Mentorship & Upskilling: Guide and mentor engineers, establishing a strong front-end culture. CI/CD & Deployment: Improve front-end build pipelines, automated deployments, and observability using GitLab and Octopus Deploy. User Experience & Accessibility: Ensure the UI is fast, accessible, and intuitive, aligning with UX design best practices. Required Skills & Experience 8+ years of front-end development experience with ReactJS, TypeScript, and JavaScript (ES6+), Design patterns and modern UI frameworks. Experience with Micro Frontends architecture and component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Material UI). Deep understanding of front-end performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, accessibility (WCAG), Webpack Bundle Analyzer, and React Profiler. Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs and GraphQL. Strong knowledge of component-based architectures, and UI state management (Redux, React Query, etc.). Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library), and deployment automation (GitLab, Octopus Deploy). Experience working in cloud-based SaaS environments, with GCP preferred. Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including back-end engineers, UX designers, and product managers. Experience with styled-components and Emotion in ReactJS for modular and scoped CSS-in-JS, enabling efficient and dynamic styling. Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach to ensure code reliability and quality in complex projects. Proficiency with Webpacks advanced features like tree-shaking, lazy loading, code-splitting, and bundle optimization. In-depth knowledge of Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Prettier, and other modern build tools and task runners for optimizing development workflows.