Front - End Development - Tech Lead

The Front-End Development Tech Lead will provide technical leadership and hands-on development expertise for React-based applications. The person in this position will own frontend architecture, code quality, and delivery standards while actively contributing to development, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, UX, backend, and clients, to deliver scalable, high-performance user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and development efforts on front-end projects, ensuring clean, efficient, and scalable code.
• Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, and design patterns.
• Ensure applications meet performance, security, accessibility, and scalability standards.
• Oversee React version upgrades and framework-related updates for projects as needed.
• Conduct code reviews, establish best practices, and mentor junior developers.
• Convert UI/UX designs into responsive, high-quality React-based interfaces.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Define and enforce frontend testing strategies, including unit, integration, and component testing using tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, or equivalent frameworks.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Work directly with clients on technical discussions and issue resolution.
• Stay informed about evolving front-end technologies and industry best practices.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in integrating RESTful APIs.
• Strong proficiency in React.js (functional components, hooks, context, performance optimisation), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5 CSS, and styling (CSS-in-JS, Tailwind, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with NPM/Yarn.
• Experience with state management libraries such as Redux and Zustand.
• Experience with Next.js or similar React frameworks is a plus.
• Experience with Git and standard version control workflows.
• Experience using AI-powered developer tools such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor AI to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Proven experience leading front-end teams or acting as a technical lead, including code reviews, technical decision-making, and mentoring developers.
• Good understanding of other modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries, such as Angular and Vue.js, with the ability to review code, guide teams, and support projects beyond React.
• Exposure to micro-frontend architectures and cloud-hosted frontend deployments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a strong plus.

Personal Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to identify alternatives and find an optimal way to implement a solution.
• Ability to apply logic in identifying patterns, structures, and formats, and organising ideas to validate proposed solutions.
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to manage time across multiple tasks and juggle competing deadlines.

Education and Work Experience:

• The candidate should have over 8 years of working experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Background in CS, IT, or a related scientific discipline is preferred.