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Principal Frontend Engineer

250k – 300kUnited StatesRemote10+ YOE
Summary

Leads frontend architecture strategy using Angular and React, solves scalability challenges, mentors engineers, and influences product roadmap in a high-growth environment. Requires 10+ years experience with expert-level TypeScript and state management skills.

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments
  • Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular 2+ and React that support rapid product development
  • Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity
  • Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems
  • Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization
  • Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems
  • Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards
  • Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnership

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications
  • Expert-level experience with Angular 2+, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
  • Proven track record of 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 passion for building high-performing engineering organizations
  • Experience with testing infrastructure and ability to define testing strategies for large scale features
Skills
AngularReactTypeScriptRxJSNgRxperformance optimizationstate managementtesting infrastructure
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