Role Overview:We are seeking a visionary Principal Front End Architect to drive the evolution of our frontend architecture and champion a cohesive, AI-enabled, modern UI/UX experience across our product portfolio. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role responsible for defining the user interface strategy that aligns with MeridianLink's long-term vision, ensuring consistency, scalability, and quality across all products.
Key Responsibilities:- Lead and evolve frontend architecture and standards for our Angular and React applications
- Define, document, and enforce frontend architectural principles company-wide
- Develop and maintain a shared design system and frontend platform strategy for consistent user experiences
- Ensure best practices, reusable patterns, and cross-framework consistency across Angular and React
- Guide framework coexistence, migration, and modernization strategies
- Set clear performance, accessibility (WCAG), observability, and automated testing standards
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX Design, and Backend Engineering to shape intuitive end-to-end user flows
- Advocate for UI, UX, and platform-level improvements by influencing product and engineering roadmaps
- Mentor and guide engineers and frontend leads across teams
- Represent frontend architecture and UI strategy in cross-organizational technical forums and architecture reviews
- Drive adoption and contribution to shared UI libraries, components, and standards
- Integrate AI-assisted UX patterns such as intelligent recommendations, guided workflows, contextual insights, and adaptive UI behaviors
- Establish guardrails for responsible AI usage in frontend experiences, considering performance, accessibility, and ethical UX
- Define patterns supporting human-in-the-loop UX, transparency, auditability, and feedback in AI-powered interfaces
- Promote AI-assisted frontend development practices, including code generation, refactoring, testing, accessibility checks, and documentation
- Accelerate delivery while maintaining quality through design-to-code and component generation workflows, leveraging AI appropriately
What You Bring:- Extensive experience as a Frontend Architect or in a similar leadership role
- Deep hands-on expertise in modern frontend frameworks, especially Angular and React
- Strong UI/UX sensibility and proven ability to translate user needs and designs into scalable technical solutions
- Experience developing and scaling shared design systems and UI platforms in complex environments
- Thorough understanding of frontend performance optimization, accessibility standards, and testing strategies
- Skilled at leading through influence, setting architectural direction, and mentoring senior engineers
- Excellent collaboration and communication abilities with cross-functional teams
- Track record of delivering thoughtful, trustworthy AI-enabled user experiences
- Strong leadership at the intersection of frontend engineering, UX, and AI
- Passion for improving developer productivity via standards, shared systems, and AI-assisted workflows
