Lead Frontend Engineer

Vaimo is a full-service digital experience agency that helps brands and businesses grow by uniting commerce, content, data, and insights into seamless, engaging, and beautifully designed customer experiences. They are seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to lead the development of a new web application, focusing on scalable frontend solutions and providing technical leadership to the team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable frontend solutions for medium and large-scale projects
• Own planning, estimation, technical design, implementation, and quality assurance
• Define and maintain frontend architecture standards and best practices
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code review support to team members
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, UX/UI, QA, DevOps, and Product teams
• Continuously improve team capabilities through knowledge sharing and professional development
• Act as a technical client-facing representative when needed, leading workshops and architectural discussions
• Support commercial activities, including solution scoping, estimations, and pre-sales engagements

Requirements:

• Strong experience with React and Next.js (App Router) in production environments
• Deep understanding of SSR, SSG, ISR, and hybrid rendering strategies
• Expert-level TypeScript and modern frontend architecture design
• Experience integrating frontend applications within distributed microservices ecosystems, including API contract awareness
• Strong knowledge of frontend testing (e.g., Playwright, Jest)
• Ability to define and maintain architectural standards
• Experience leading technical decisions and mentoring engineers
• Integration with REST or GraphQL APIs in distributed systems
• Experience with headless CMS platforms (e.g., Contentful, Sanity)
• Experience delivering frontend applications within CI/CD pipelines and containerized cloud environments (e.g., Docker, AKS)
• Performance optimization and accessibility best practices
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
• Terraform basics (ability to understand infrastructure definitions)
• Experience with commerce platforms (Shopify, Adobe Commerce, etc.)
• Monitoring & observability tooling (Application Insights or similar)
• Familiarity with backend technologies (.NET, Node.js, PHP)