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Our platforms manage the full advertising lifecycle — from sales planning and order management to trafficking, analytics, and billing — across linear TV, streaming, and digital channels.\nBuilt on a modern, cloud-native SaaS architecture with microservices at its core, the Operative platform is engineered to handle the scale and operational demands of the world's largest broadcasters and publishers. Operative is actively developing AI Agents — both to enhance the capabilities of our platform and to augment how our engineering teams work. Engineers at Operative have access to AI tooling as a standard part of their workflow, and we are investing in building increasingly autonomous agents that accelerate development.\nPosition OverviewOperative is seeking an experienced architect with a strong hands-on engineering background and a demonstrated ability to operate independently and drive the technical quality of the teams and codebases they engage with. This individual will serve as the primary technical authority for frontend engineering, working at the intersection of UX, Product, and Engineering to ensure that design intent is realized through sound, scalable architecture.\nFrontend engineering is a priority area for investment at Operative. The successful candidate will bring clarity, direction, and technical leadership to this domain — assessing the current state, identifying improvements, and building the patterns and standards the broader team will follow.\nKey Responsibilities\nDefine and own the frontend architecture, including component models, state management patterns, build tooling, performance standards, and testing strategy\n\nCollaborate closely with UX and Product teams to develop a deep understanding of design systems and user workflows, translating that understanding into clean, maintainable implementation patterns\n\nDrive the adoption of AI-assisted development practices within the frontend engineering team, and contribute to defining the user experience layer for Operative's agentic AI capabilities\n\nEstablish and uphold code quality standards through design reviews, tooling, documentation, and hands-on example\n\nIdentify and drive high-impact improvements to the existing frontend independently, from assessment through delivery\n\nServe as the primary technical liaison between design and engineering disciplines, ensuring alignment between intent and execution\n\nProvide mentorship and technical guidance to frontend engineers across the broader global team\n\nMake and take ownership of architectural decisions, communicating rationale clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\nQualities and Working StyleBeyond technical depth, Operative is looking for specific qualities that define how this individual will work:\n\nOperates with a high degree of autonomy and self-direction; identifies what needs to be done without requiring close oversight\n\nHolds strong technical opinions grounded in experience, while remaining pragmatic about tradeoffs and context\n\nApproaches ambiguity as a problem to be solved rather than a barrier to progress\n\nRemains hands-on as a practitioner; this is an engineering leadership role, not a purely advisory one\n\nHas a track record of being a go-to resource for difficult frontend engineering challenges\n\nCommunicates technical concepts effectively to cross-functional audiences, including product and business stakeholders\n\nTechnical RequirementsCandidates should demonstrate strong proficiency across the following areas:\n\nAngular\n\nTypeScript\n\nCSS / Design Systems\n\nState Management\n\nBuild Tooling\n\nTesting (E2E + Unit)\n\nWeb Performance\n\nREST / GraphQL\n\nMicro Frontends\n\nAccessibility (a11y)\n\nModule Federation\n\nExperience with other modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue is welcomed — architectural depth and the ability to drive quality outcomes matter more than specific framework alignment. Familiarity with the following technologies is advantageous, as they represent the broader platform environment this role will integrate with:\n\nJava Spring Boot microservices\n\nAWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway)\n\nKafka-driven event architectures\n\nKubernetes and containerized deployment environments\n\nQualifications\n10 or more years of software engineering experience with significant depth in frontend architecture and development\n\nDemonstrated experience owning the frontend across its full lifecycle, including architecture, standards, delivery, and ongoing stewardship\n\nPrior experience providing senior technical leadership within distributed or globally distributed engineering teams\n\nProven ability to establish durable technical patterns and standards, not merely contribute to feature delivery\n\nBackground in SaaS product development where reliability, scalability, and user experience are interdependent concerns\n\nWhat Operative Offers\nA senior role with direct impact on the technical direction of a growing platform\n\nThe opportunity to build and lead within a global engineering organization\n\nCompetitive compensation commensurate with experience and scope of impact\n\nFlexible remote-first work environment\n\nOperative cares about your privacy and protecting your data. By submitting an application for a position with Operative, you acknowledge that you have read the following and consent to how Operative treats your data: 1) the Candidate Privacy Policy available at (or if you are a candidate from Israel the Candidate Privacy Notice (Israel), available at and 2) the Candidate Notice for Data Transfer and Retention available at \nOriginally posted on Himalayas","description_format":"text","description_chars":5689,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","ERP & Business Management Software","Supply Chain & Logistics Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T23:28:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":38,"reasons":["seen:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/operative-principal-software-architect-frontend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/operative-principal-software-architect-frontend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T14:41:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3364,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1764919},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1764919"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Foperative-principal-software-architect-frontend"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Foperative-principal-software-architect-frontend"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Foperative-principal-software-architect-frontend"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/operative-principal-software-architect-frontend\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Foperative-principal-software-architect-frontend"}]}