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Lead Front-End Engineer (UI/UX)

United StatesFrontend EngineeringRemote10+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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
Skills
ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSHTMLCSSFigmastate managementdesign systemsAI coding assistantsperformance optimization
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