UI/Frontend Architect - React.js (10-15 yrs)

Job Description :

We're looking for an experienced hands-on Frontend Architect who will take charge of architecture, design, and implementation while playing an active role in coding, mentoring, and driving technical excellence in the team. This is a leadership role that balances strategic thinking with a practical, roll-up-your-sleeves approach to solving complex technical challenges. You'll collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across multiple divisions to deliver outstanding software that our customers love.

Responsibilities :

- Architect Scalable Solutions : Define and implement the frontend architecture for our Single Page Applications (SPAs), ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.

- UI Component Development : Build reusable, efficient, and accessible UI components leveraging modern frameworks like React and TypeScript.

- Performance Optimization : Profile and optimize speed applications, ensuring best-in-class performance across browsers and devices.

- Collaborative Design : Work closely with backend architects, product managers, and UX designers to translate requirements into highly engaging user interfaces.

- DevOps Integration : Contribute to and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth, automated testing and deployments.

Quality Assurance : Implement automated testing strategies to deliver reliable and maintainable codebases, using tools like Vitest and Playwright.

- Technical Leadership : Mentor developers, review code, and drive technical decisions to maintain high engineering standards.

Requirements :

- User-focused : You prioritize solving customer problems collaboratively, with a say in planning, design, and execution.

- Strong communicator : Confident in leading discussions with teams across the organization and presenting ideas in open forums.

You have experience delivering projects where collaboration was essential.

- Self-motivated : You can work independently seeing a project to completion with minimal guidance.

- Remote worker : You have a dedicated workspace with good audio/video. You're willing to travel to Newcastle infrequently for in-person collaboration.

Technical expertise :

- 5+ years of hands-on experience with React, including a deep understanding of its internals and the wider JavaScript ecosystem.

- 10+ years of overall experience, with at least 5 years deploying and maintaining applications on AWS. Proficiency in TypeScript.

- Strong knowledge of browser internals, debugging/profiling tools, and techniques for performance optimization.

- Expertise in building in-house component libraries, with a solid grasp of modular CSS, design systems, and bundlers - including ESM.

We'd especially love to hear from you if :

- You have experience planning and implementing a large monorepo with nx.

- You have experience with ModuleFederation and the challenges associated with micro frontends.

- You have a proven track record of project leadership and mentoring software engineers.

- You are skilled at analyzing codebases and identifying areas for improvement.

- You've successfully introduced new technologies and techniques across teams.

- You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, embracing innovation and change.