Lead Software Engineer, Frontend

Role Overview

Lead Software Engineer, Frontend (hands-on leadership)

You will lead the technical direction of MOTER’s web applications—shaping the TypeScript/React/Redux/Next.js frontend platform—while partnering with product, design, backend, and platform teams to deliver polished, trustworthy software.

Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Own frontend architecture for web apps (component structure, state management, rendering strategy, data fetching).
• Lead technical design discussions and RFCs, balancing speed, maintainability, and long-term quality.
• Drive frontend framework/tooling/platform decisions (upgrades, shared packages, build performance, developer experience).
• Set high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and code review.
• Contribute meaningfully to the codebase as a hands-on technical leader.

Product Craft & UX Engineering

• Partner with product and design to turn ambiguous requirements into intuitive user experiences.
• Build interfaces for complex, data-rich workflows, focusing on usability, clarity, trust, and edge cases.
• Prototype quickly, then harden solutions for production.
• Champion thoughtful UX details (loading states, error handling, empty states, motion, responsive behavior).

Design Systems, Accessibility & Quality

• Own and evolve the component library and frontend patterns with design.
• Make accessibility a default (semantic HTML, keyboard support, focus management, assistive technology testing).
• Establish standards for frontend testing, visual quality, and release confidence.

Performance & Observability

• Drive improvements to Core Web Vitals, bundle size, responsiveness, and runtime reliability.
• Make sound rendering decisions across SSR, SSG, and client-side interactivity.
• Improve observability via logging, error tracking, tracing, and product analytics.
• Implement resilient client behavior (loading failures, stale data, retries, degraded backend conditions).

Platform Partnership

• Partner with backend and platform teams on the BFF/API layer (details truncated in posting).

Requirements

• Strong frontend engineering with architecture, product judgment, and execution.
• Deep experience shaping a modern frontend platform using TypeScript, React, Redux, and Next.js.
• Ability to lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, and raise quality across design systems, accessibility, performance, and observability.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience improving Core Web Vitals and frontend observability (logging/error tracking/tracing/product analytics).
• Strong accessibility practice (semantic HTML, keyboard/focus management, assistive tech testing).
• Experience with resilient UI patterns for complex, data-rich workflows.