Front End Architect

Front-end Architect (or Principal Front-end Architect)

Work Location: Bangalore

Role Summary

As a Front-end Architect, you will shape the architecture and engineering standards of our client-side applications. Youll define and drive the technical vision for the front-end stack, ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and lead/mentor engineers across teams. Youll be both hands-on and strategic: writing/ reviewing code, making architectural decisions, aligning with product, UX/design, backend, and operational teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the long-term technical direction for the front-end (web/mobile) architecture: choose frameworks, define module boundaries, micro-frontends vs monoliths, component libraries, design systems.
• Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, tooling (build systems, linting, CI/CD, bundling, performance budgets) for front-end engineering.
• Lead architectural decisions: trade-offs between speed to market vs maintainability, performance vs bundle size, monolithic vs micro-frontend, SSR/CSR/hybrid, etc.
• Collaborate with product, UX/design, backend teams: ensure front-end architecture aligns with UX vision, API surface, data flows, deployment model, accessibility standards.
• Build and maintain shared components, design systems, UI libraries, patterns that are reusable and scalable across teams.
• Mentor and coach front-end engineers: review code, provide guidance, help establish growth paths, recruit and onboard new talent.
• Stay current with emerging front-end technologies, frameworks, performance and accessibility trends; evaluate new technologies and tools and recommend their adoption.
• Identify, anticipate, and mitigate technical risks related to front-end performance, maintainability, scalability, security, cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Ensure high quality in front-end deliverables: via code reviews, architecture reviews, performance audits, accessibility (e.g., WCAG), SEO, and maintainability.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Typically

  8-10+ years

  of strong front-end development experience (or equivalent), with several years in lead/architect or senior engineering roles.
• Deep expertise in HTML5, CSS3/SASS/LESS, JavaScript (ES6+), and at least one major front-end framework/library (e.g., React, Vue, Angular).
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable front-end architectures (e.g., micro-frontends, component libraries, design systems, SSR/CSR).
• Strong understanding of front-end performance optimization, bundling, build tools (Webpack, Rollup, Vite), code splitting, tree-shaking.
• Knowledge of accessibility (WCAG) and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Familiarity with backend integration (REST, GraphQL), state-management strategies, real-time/data-driven front-end features.
• Excellent communication skills: able to explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, collaborate across teams.
• Strategic mindset: able to analyze trade-offs, plan for scale, guide architecture decisions, mentor others.
• Preferred: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, large-scale front-end deployments, open source contributions. (Bonus)