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Principal Frontend Engineer

Drives company-wide frontend architecture and technical strategy while designing scalable Angular and React systems. The role requires 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, expert TypeScript and state-management skills, and strong cross-team technical leadership.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments.
  • Lead the design of scalable, performant systems using Angular and React.
  • Solve complex cross-team challenges involving performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity.
  • Partner with backend and integrations teams on end-to-end architecture for major features and systems.
  • Raise standards for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across frontend engineering.
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact initiatives and unblock teams facing ambiguous or difficult problems.
  • Guide pragmatic decisions balancing delivery speed with long-term product quality.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards.
  • Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through technical judgment and product partnership.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications.
  • Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state-management systems.
  • Proven experience architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users.
  • Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture.
  • Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas.
  • Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments.
  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels.
  • Strong mentoring background and interest in building high-performing engineering organizations.
  • Experience with testing infrastructure and defining testing strategies for large-scale feature changes.

Skills

Angular, React, TypeScript, Rxjs, Ngrx, State Management, Frontend Architecture, Performance Optimization, Web Applications, Component Architecture, Testing Infrastructure

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