Lead Frontend Engineer

About the role

The Lead Frontend Engineer owns the growth and output of a frontend engineering pod — hiring, developing, and managing a small team — while remaining a strong hands-on contributor and a voice in technical direction. This is a player-coach role: you’ll write code and shape architecture alongside your team, not just direct it from a distance, while also partnering with Talent to build out the team and with Engineering leadership to shape where the frontend goes next.

Responsibilities

• Influence technical direction and architectural decisions across frontend systems, balancing pragmatism with long-term scalability
• Build a state-driven UI that adapts seamlessly to network-specific quirks
• Support legacy and new plans simultaneously
• Create elegant, highly accessible (a11y-first) interfaces that work across platforms
• Lead and contribute to building modern frontend features using React, TypeScript, and CSS
• Design and build UI components for both web and React Native applications
• Architect scalable systems to support millions of user interactions across different networks
• Collaborate closely with backend, product, and design teams to drive elegant, data-informed solutions
• Work on mission-critical projects like our next-gen agentic AI chatbot, a customer-centric interface giving full control over phone lines, a next-generation usage dashboard, and an e-commerce experience unmatched in telecom

Qualifications

• 12+ years of frontend engineering experience building production-grade UIs, including experience in a technical leadership or people management role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing frontend engineers, including hiring and performance management
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions at a team or organizational level
• Strong stakeholder management skills — able to represent frontend engineering’s perspective persuasively in front of executives, PMs, and cross-functional partners
• Comfort operating in a fast paced environment — wearing multiple hats across engineering, hiring, and cross-functional work
• Experience partnering with Talent/Recruiting to build and scale engineering teams — defining roles, running hiring processes, and closing candidates
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS-in-JS or equivalent styling approaches
• Experience with state management and data fetching libraries (e.g., Tanstack Query, Redux, Zustand)
• A strong eye for UX/UI detail, accessibility, and responsive design
• Comfort dealing with complexity: legacy code, varied device support, and cross-platform consistency
• A self-starter who can define and deliver high-leverage solutions with minimal oversight

Benefits and Perks

• Annual company offsites
• Competitive Salary
• Gym reimbursement
• Commute reimbursement
• Flexible working hours
• Professional development stipend
• Flexible time off
• Cell phone service (up to $100/mo)