# Lead Front-End Engineer (UI/UX)

**Company:** [Stackblitz](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stackblitz)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Tailwind, HTML, CSS, Figma, State Management, Design Systems, Ai Coding Assistants, Performance Optimization
**Posted:** 2026-03-30

> Hands-on technical leader owning frontend architecture, code quality, and UI team growth. Writes code on complex features, conducts reviews, hires, and builds AI-powered UI while coordinating cross-team efforts. Requires 10+ years frontend experience and 3+ years leadership.

## Job Description

## 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

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