Front End Architect

Role Overview

• Be capable of taking on any size and complexity of project.
• Be able to manage multiple projects and responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
• Work closely with other departments, team members, vendors, and clients.
• Collaborate with experience architects to validate prototypes meet conditions of the project and suggest improvements or changes as needed.
• Collaborate with experience designers to validate designs meet conditions of the project and suggest improvements or changes as needed.
• Collaborate with technical architects and back-end engineers to determine technical requirements and implementation approaches for the project.
• Work with clients to define and understand requirements and to resolve issues or questions during development.
• Work with vendors to understand their systems and integrations and how it will impact our projects.
• Continually update front end estimates throughout the project life cycle. Capture and continually update all assumptions used to create estimations.
• Oversee and mentor front end engineers on the project. Conduct code reviews and provide feedback and guidance to developers based on the code.
• Assign out tasks to team members effectively. Manage team members
• this includes 1:1's as well as career paths, quarterly reviews and performance reviews.
• Evaluate frameworks, technologies and tools and determine their relevance to a particular project or the wider department. Help drive department standards and best practices.
• Ensure all front-end aspects of projects proceed efficiently, predictably and on time.
• Review the statement of work, functional spec, and other documents to understand the project goals and front-end specifics such as: hours sold, timeline, browser support, coding standards, framework requirements, etc.
• Participate in requirements gathering and validation. Create technical documentation for front end aspects of the project.
• Identify and raise potential project risks to the team and help to alleviate those risks.
• Architect and write front end code for the foundation and complex features of each project and set establish API endpoints.
• Perform smoke tests on various devices and browsers.

Requirements

• At least 5 or more years of software development experience using an object oriented programming language, preferably Javascript, but other backgrounds are considered.
• At least 3 or more years of experience creating responsive experiences using SASS/LESS/PostCSS and semantic HTML5.
• Proficiency with AI-enhanced development environments and tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to improve code quality, speed up development, and support intelligent refactoring and debugging.
• At least 2 to 3 years' experience leading a team of engineers on mid to large scale projects.
• Strong development fundamentals including clean, reusable code.
• Strong Expertise with front-end technologies: JavaScript (ES6), React, Webpack, Babel, HTML5, CSS/SASS.
• At least 1 year of working with an Agile/SCRUM workflow.
• At least 1 year experience using Git and git-flow.

Tech Stack

• Babel
• JavaScript
• React
• SCSS
• Webpack

Benefits

• Generous paid company holidays, vacation, and paid sick time to every employee starting on day one.
• Top-of-the-line Health Insurance, plus monthly perks customized to meet individual employees’ needs.
• Regular training and professional development to move careers forward.
• Healthy work/life balance.
• Fully remote enabled and embrace the evolving definition of the workplace.