About the role
As the Frontend Engineering Lead, you will lead frontend architecture, design systems, accessibility standards, performance engineering, and AI-enabled web experiences across platforms. You will define how web interfaces are built to serve millions of users across diverse devices, browsers, and connectivity conditions. This role is a part of the 0-to-1 vertical build. The person joining should be comfortable with ambiguity, high ownership, rapid iteration, hands-on execution, team building, and periods of high-intensity work during the early setup phase.
Responsibilities:
- Define and own the frontend architecture: technology stack, rendering strategy (SSR/SSG/ISR), state management, and build pipeline.
- Define and own the frontend architecture: technology stack, rendering strategy (SSR/SSG/ISR), state management, and build pipeline.
- Build and maintain the enterprise design system: component library, design tokens, documentation, and cross-team adoption.
- Establish and enforce accessibility standards: WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility.
- Drive frontend performance initiatives: Core Web Vitals, bundle optimization, image strategy, and lazy loading.
- Build AI-powered user experiences: LLM-integrated UI patterns, streaming responses, and progressive enhancement for AI features.
- Define frontend engineering governance: code review standards, testing strategy, release practices, and security baselines.
- Ensure cross-browser compatibility and API integration reliability across all web interfaces serving diverse user segments.
- Lead frontend teams through code reviews, engineering best practices, and technical mentoring to raise team capability.
- Translate UX designs into responsive, accessible, and scalable user interfaces optimized for low-bandwidth users.
- Collaborate with the backend team on API contracts and system design.
- Improve application reliability through testing and observability.
Requirements:
- Strong experience building large-scale web applications using React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), and TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Deep understanding of React Hooks, functional components, Context API, and component lifecycle.
- Experience with Redux Toolkit, Context API, Zustand, or similar state management libraries.
- Strong understanding of UI architecture, reusable component design, and frontend performance optimization.
- Experience translating UX designs into responsive, accessible, and scalable user interfaces.
- Familiarity with end-to-end testing tools such as Cypress or Playwright.
- Strong knowledge of frontend security, browser compatibility, and API integrations.
- Experience leading frontend teams, code reviews, and engineering best practices.