We9re looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to help us build and grow our frontend team as we double our team. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role where you9ll manage and mentor a team of engineers while architecting and building fast, accessible, and elegant web and mobile applications used by over 1 million subscribers. Our challenges are both technical and strategic.
About the RoleThe Lead Frontend Engineer owns the growth and output of a frontend engineering pod - hiring, developing, and managing a small team - while remaining a strong hands-on contributor and a voice in technical direction. This is a player-coach role: you9ll write code and shape architecture alongside your team, not just direct it from a distance, while also partnering with Talent to build out the team and with Engineering leadership to shape where the frontend goes next.
You will:- Build and lead a team - hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing group of frontend engineers as we scale.
- Shape technical direction - influence architecture, tooling, and roadmap decisions across frontend systems.
- Stay hands-on - architect and build fast, accessible, elegant web and mobile applications used by over 1 million subscribers.
- Scale our systems - help us grow to tens of millions of customers and connected devices.
- Raise the bar - build quality tools and frameworks to ensure a high-quality product.
- Champion accessibility and performance - treat both as first-class concerns across the frontend org.
- Drive innovation - work on mission-critical projects like our next-gen agentic AI chatbot, a customer-centric interface giving full control over phone lines, a next-generation usage dashboard, and an e-commerce experience unmatched in telecom.
Responsibilities:- Influence technical direction and architectural decisions across frontend systems, balancing pragmatism with long-term scalability
- Build a state-driven UI that adapts seamlessly to network-specific quirks
- Support legacy and new plans simultaneously
- Create elegant, highly accessible (a11y-first) interfaces that work across platforms
- Lead and contribute to building modern frontend features using React, TypeScript, and CSS
- Design and build UI components for both web and React Native applications
- Architect scalable systems to support millions of user interactions across different networks
- Collaborate closely with backend, product, and design teams to drive elegant, data-informed solutions
- Work with emerging technologies like Rust where performance or architecture demands
- Set and uphold engineering standards and best practices across your team
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of frontend engineers - owning hiring decisions, performance management, career development, and day-to-day team health
- Partner closely with Talent/Recruiting to define hiring needs, shape interview processes, and build out the frontend engineering team as we scale.
Qualifications:- 12+ years of frontend engineering experience building production-grade UIs, including experience in a technical leadership or people management role
- Bachelor9s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing frontend engineers, including hiring and performance management
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions at a team or organizational level
- Strong stakeholder management skills - able to represent frontend engineering9s perspective persuasively in front of executives, PMs, and cross-functional partners
- Comfort operating in a fast paced environment - wearing multiple hats across engineering, hiring, and cross-functional work
- Experience partnering with Talent/Recruiting to build and scale engineering teams - defining roles, running hiring processes, and closing candidates
- Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS-in-JS or equivalent styling approaches
- Experience with state management and data fetching libraries (e.g., Tanstack Query, Redux, Zustand)
- A strong eye for UX/UI detail, accessibility, and responsive design
- Comfort dealing with complexity: legacy code, varied device support, and cross-platform consistency
- A self-starter who can define and deliver high-leverage solutions with minimal oversight
- Bonus: Experience with Rust, Mobile Development (React Native), or Telecom-related apps
Benefits and Perks:- Annual company offsites
- Competitive Salary
- Gym reimbursement
- Commute reimbursement
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development stipend
- Flexible time off
- Cell phone service (up to $100/mo)
$180,000 - $240,000 a year
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