Frontend Lead Engineer - React.js Framework

As Front-End Lead Engineer, you will drive the development of high-quality, scalable front-end solutions while staying hands-on with the code. You'll shape front-end architecture, set engineering standards across delivery teams, guide and mentor engineers, and act as the main technical point of contact between your team and stakeholders.

Your Responsibilities :

Technical excellence :

• Oversee all front-end engineering aspects of assigned projects, ensuring robust, scalable, secure, high-performing, and accessible solutions
• Plan, schedule, coordinate, and monitor front-end development activities, driving task prioritisation and providing technical assessments and estimations
• Review and validate the technical approach and code quality for all team deliverables, ensuring compliance with best practices, coding standards, and performance benchmarks
• Identify and resolve technical issues and blockers, raising concerns with proposed architecture and escalating when necessary
• Drive the adoption of automation, efficient tooling, and modern front-end technologies and methodologies
• Establish efficient front-end workflows and processes, and maintain supporting documentation, including architectural principles

Leadership and team growth :

• Mentor, coach, and support the professional growth and onboarding of engineering team members
• Track and support performance feedback within the team
• Contribute to the recruitment and integration of new front-end team members

Strategy and process management

• Contribute technical insights to project planning, aligning team efforts with project goals and identifying opportunities for technical improvement
• Collaborate with Technical Directors to find innovative front-end solutions and share knowledge
• Support the team in grooming planned activities and detailing stories with the BA/PO, including defining acceptance criteria
• Manage and communicate technical risks, escalating to the Lead PM or Technical Director when necessary

Communication and stakeholder engagement :

• Act as the main technical point of contact for the team, engaging with customers and stakeholders on technical topics and bridging technical and business perspectives
• Translate business requirements into technical needs in collaboration with the Product Owner
• Present technical solutions and progress clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, escalating larger initiatives to the Technical Director when appropriate
• Provide on-call support when required

Required Skills :

• Proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+) fundamentals
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with Node.js, particularly with the Next.js framework and server-side/client-side rendering concepts
• Strong knowledge of Tailwind CSS for building responsive, reusable user interfaces
• Expertise in front-end testing using Jest
• Expertise designing scalable front-end architecture for complex applications, with a strong grasp of component-based and other modern design patterns
• Strong understanding of performance optimisation, benchmarking, security, and accessibility best practices
• High proficiency with Git
• Experience guiding and mentoring engineers, including supporting their professional growth
• Track record of making and owning architectural decisions, and communicating technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders