remote
Front End Team Leader - NorthLadder
Software Engineer
Senior Front End Team Leader driving UI strategy, design system excellence, and high‑performing frontend teams using React, TypeScript, and modern CSS. Owns product visual standards, code quality, and cross‑functional collaboration with backend and QA.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the UI strategy and visual standards for the product, ensuring consistency across all interfaces.
- Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, mentoring frontend developers while coordinating with backend and QA to deliver high‑quality releases.
- Architect and maintain a scalable design system, component library, and style guidelines that accelerate development and reduce technical debt.
- Champion best practices in code review, testing, and performance optimization for React, JavaScript, and TypeScript codebases.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into intuitive, accessible user experiences.
Requirements
- 8+ years of frontend development experience with deep expertise in React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
- Proven track record of building and scaling design systems and component libraries.
- Strong leadership skills, with experience managing and growing engineering teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Passion for clean code, performance, and accessibility.
Skills
reactjavascripttypescript