Frontend Lead Engineer

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

Skills

Frontend Architecture, UI, OTT, TypeScript, Javascript, ES6, Node.js, React.js