Lead Full Stack UI Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the UI engineering team
• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of the design system, component library, UI architecture, and supporting backend services
• Ensure delivery of high-performance, responsive, and accessible user interfaces
• Architect and integrate APIs and backend services to support UI requirements
• Drive adoption of best practices in frontend engineering, including component standardization, security integration, and progressive loading
• Champion user-centered design and usability in partnership with UX and product teams
• Oversee integration of agentic and real-time features into the UI
• Guide the use of AI-assisted development tools and modern frontend and backend frameworks, architectural patterns, scaffolding approaches, and libraries
• Own the implementation and quality of Web Analytics and Behavioral Analytics to enable continuous improvement and evolution of our products
• Collaborate with the Developer Experience (DX) Lead to automate and streamline common engineering tasks
• Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met across the stack
• Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team
• Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development
• Drive development efficiency and alignment with product team priorities through clear prioritization frameworks and delivery metrics

Core Qualities s Skills

• Proven experience leading full stack or frontend engineering teams and delivering complex user-facing projects
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript and Node.js technologies.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, and UI performance optimization
• Experience designing, building, and integrating RESTful or GraphQL APIs
• Strong understanding of accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, and responsive design
• Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines
• Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies
• System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs across the stack
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities
• Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change
• Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices (including OAuth 2.0, Authorization, Authentication, Chain-of-custody, Claims management, and Principle of Least Privilege [POLP])

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on full stack or frontend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
• Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable end-to-end systems
• Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers
• Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams

Highly Desirable

• Experience implementing and evolving enterprise-grade design systems
• Familiarity with Material UI, Storybook, and/or similar tools
• Experience using AI-assisted UI development and rapid prototyping
• Track record of delivering interfaces with sub-second time to first interaction and high component reuse
• Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence
• Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams