Lead Software Engineer

Job highlights

• This role serves as a senior technical leader within the Experience Engineering organization and is responsible for driving engineering excellence,delivering scalable and high-performance user experiences,and enabling adoption of reusable UI platforms across multiple product teams.
• Improve developer experience through tooling,documentation,templates,and engineering accelerators.

Job Summary

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Engineer - UI Engineering to lead the design, development, and evolution of enterprise-scale front-end applications, shared UI frameworks, component libraries, and platform capabilities.

This role serves as a senior technical leader within the Experience Engineering organization and is responsible for driving engineering excellence, delivering scalable and high-performance user experiences, and enabling adoption of reusable UI platforms across multiple product teams.

The ideal candidate is a highly hands-on engineer with deep expertise in React, TypeScript, Web Components, application architecture, and modern front-end engineering practices. This role will partner closely with UI Architects, Engineering Managers, Product Owners, UX teams, and Platform Engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable front-end solutions.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Design

• Lead the technical design and implementation of complex front-end solutions across multiple applications and teams.
• Translate architectural vision and standards into scalable, maintainable engineering solutions.
• Drive technical decision-making around frameworks, libraries, patterns, and platform capabilities.
• Review and validate technical designs, architecture proposals, and implementation approaches.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges.
• Champion engineering best practices, reusable patterns, and platform-first development approaches.
• Provide leadership during technical planning, estimation, and roadmap discussions.

Front-End Application Development

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Web Components, HTML5, and CSS.
• Build highly responsive, accessible, scalable, and performant user experiences.
• Develop reusable features and shared capabilities aligned with design system standards.
• Integrate applications with REST APIs, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) layers.
• Drive modernization initiatives, framework upgrades, and technical debt reduction efforts.
• Support mission-critical releases and production deployments.

UI Platform, Framework & Component Engineering

• Lead development and enhancement of reusable UI frameworks, component libraries, and shared engineering capabilities.
• Design and implement scalable component architectures and reusable patterns.
• Drive adoption of shared frameworks and libraries across product teams.
• Contribute to framework governance, versioning strategies, and release management processes.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, documentation, templates, and engineering accelerators.
• Partner with architects to evolve front-end platform capabilities and technical standards.

Design Systems & Experience Engineering

• Lead implementation of design-system-driven front-end development practices.
• Collaborate closely with UX and Design teams to transform designs into reusable production-ready components.
• Ensure consistency through design tokens, theming, component standards, and accessibility requirements.
• Support implementation of responsive and adaptive experiences across devices and platforms.
• Promote adoption of design systems across development teams.

Engineering Excellence & Quality

• Establish and promote high standards for code quality, maintainability, scalability, and testability.
• Drive implementation of automated quality practices including:
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • End-to-End Testing
  • Visual Regression Testing
• Lead code reviews and architectural reviews across teams.
• Ensure adherence to:
  • SonarQube quality standards
  • Secure coding practices
  • Open-source governance policies (FOSSA or equivalent)
• Identify and address technical debt while continuously improving engineering quality.

Performance, Security & Reliability

• Optimize applications and framework components for:
  • Core Web Vi…