Frontend Tech Lead

Description

• Lead frontend technical strategy, define best practices, champion modern frontend architecture, and drive adoption of component libraries, state management patterns, and performance optimizations.

• Build customer-facing features as a hands-on engineer using React, TypeScript, Next.js, and associated libraries.

• Shape the frontend guild: facilitate discussions, align engineers across squads, promote knowledge-sharing and consistency.

• Mentor and grow engineers: coach junior/mid-level developers, review code, and help build frontend skills.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Backend Engineers to deliver features.

• Contribute full-stack when needed: dive into backend services (Python, AWS, APIs, Kubernetes) to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Drive engineering excellence: influence tooling, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring strategies to improve developer velocity and reliability.

• Represent engineering in planning sessions, roadmap discussions, and cross-team initiatives.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience

• At least 5 years of recent experience in React, Javascript and TypeScript

• Experience scaling and optimizing large-scale SPAs

• Knowledge of rendering/performance tradeoffs, accessibility, and design fidelity

• Comfortable contributing to backend systems (Python/Django/FastAPI, AWS, data pipelines)

• Technical leadership experience leading discussions and influencing architecture

• Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers

• Cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Design, Data Scientists, and Backend Engineers

• Familiarity with design systems/component libraries, state/data management libraries, Google Maps API or data visualization libraries, CI/CD (GitLab), Docker/Kubernetes, headless CMS (nice-to-have)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages to meet your needs

• Unlimited vacation policy; take time when you need it

• Quarterly team outings

• 401K with employer match up to 4%

• Continuing education stipend

• Lunch is provided Tuesday to Thursday for those in the Denver office

• Commuter/RTD benefit for Denver based employees

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave

• New MacBooks for employees

• Pet-friendly!

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