Frontend Tech Lead

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - 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: Work as a hands-on engineer in your squad, implementing features with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and associated libraries.
• - Shape the frontend guild: Facilitate guild discussions, align engineers across squads, and promote knowledge-sharing and consistency in our frontend stack.
• - Mentor and grow engineers: Coach junior and mid-level developers, review code, and help engineers build strong frontend skills.
• - Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Backend Engineers to deliver features that delight customers.
• - Contribute full-stack when needed: While you’re frontend-leaning, you’ll occasionally 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 that improve developer velocity and reliability.
• - Represent engineering: Serve as a technical leader in planning sessions, roadmap discussions, and cross-team initiatives.

Required Skills

• - Experienced: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 5 years of recent experience in React and TypeScript.
• - Frontend expert: You’ve scaled and optimized large-scale SPAs, understand rendering/performance tradeoffs, and care deeply about accessibility and design fidelity.
• - Full-stack capable: You’re comfortable contributing to backend systems (Python/Django/FastAPI, AWS, data pipelines) when the team needs it.
• - Technical leader: You’ve led technical discussions, influenced architecture decisions, and aligned teams toward common engineering standards.
• - Mentor: You enjoy leveling up others, giving thoughtful feedback, and guiding careers.
• - Collaborator: You thrive in cross-functional environments and can translate business goals into technical strategy.
• - Forward-thinking: You stay current on frontend trends, evaluate emerging tools, and bring pragmatic innovation to the team.

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!