Lead Front-End Engineer (UI/UX)

How You'll Contribute

Technical Leadership

• Own UI architecture: component patterns, state management, performance, and frontend infrastructure
• Write code regularly on complex features, migrations, and architectural improvements
• Review all UI PRs and maintain quality standards across the domain
• Drive technical initiatives and manage technical debt strategically
• Coordinate with other Team Leads on cross-domain architectural decisions

Team Development

• Conduct performance reviews and own career development for UI team members
• Hold regular 1:1s to support growth, remove blockers, and provide feedback
• Make hiring decisions and address performance issues proactively
• Build a high-performing, autonomous team culture

Coordination

• Assign team members across features based on skills, capacity, and priorities
• Participate in coordination meetings with other Team Leads
• Regular 1:1s with Head of Engineering to align on priorities and resources
• Run weekly UI team meetings for knowledge sharing

AI-Native Development

• Champion AI coding tools and model effective usage
• Build AI-powered UI features and agent interaction patterns
• Dogfood Bolt.new daily and drive product improvements

Qualifications

Technical

• 10+ years frontend development, 3+ years leadership
• Expert in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture
• Strong HTML, CSS (Tailwind), performance optimization
• Experience with design systems, state management, and complex UI flows
• Track record of architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
• Daily user of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude)
• Experience building AI-integrated applications and interfaces

Leadership

• Performance reviews, career development, and difficult conversations
• Growing engineers to senior/staff+ levels
• Hiring frontend engineers
• Building remote team culture
• Coaching mindset with balance of individual and business needs

Skills

• Strong UX sensibilities and eye for detail (spacing, typography, animations)
• Experience with Figma/Sketch and translating designs to pixel-perfect interfaces
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Pragmatic mindset: ship MVPs, bias toward action, match quality to business need
• Business thinking: tie technical work to clear outcomes
• Collaborative: knowledge sharing and unblocking others is core work

Bonus Points

• Web Workers, Web Components, Remix, browser dev environments
• Developer tooling or design tools experience
• Design engineering background
• Open-source contributions to UI libraries
• WebAssembly or advanced browser APIs