Principal Engineer - Web Application Development

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term vision for the web platform architecture
• Lead cross-team initiatives to standardize frontend architecture, frameworks, and best practices
• Act as a technical advisor to engineering leadership on platform investments and tradeoffs
• Influence roadmap decisions to improve scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Design and evolve core platform components (e.g., design systems, shared libraries, build systems, CI/CD pipelines)
• Establish patterns for micro-frontends, modular architectures, and API integrations
• Ensure high standards for performance, accessibility, security, and reliability
• Lead critical system design discussions and provide architectural guidance
• Partner with product engineering, design, DevOps, and security teams
• Drive alignment across multiple teams and organizations
• Mentor senior and staff engineers; elevate engineering standards across the org
• Establish performance benchmarks and monitoring standards
• Lead initiatives around web performance (Core Web Vitals, load times, bundle size optimization)
• Ensure platform observability, reliability, and incident response readiness

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in web technologies
• Proven experience designing and scaling large-scale web platforms or frontend infrastructure
• Strong expertise in modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems (e.g., React, Angular, or similar frameworks)
• Experience with build systems, bundlers, and tooling (e.g., Webpack, Vite, Turborepo)
• Deep understanding of web performance, browser internals, and networking
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture across multiple teams
• Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills

Qualifications

• Experience with micro-frontend architectures or large monorepos
• Familiarity with backend systems and APIs (Node.js, GraphQL, REST)
• Experience building or maintaining design systems at scale
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and CI/CD pipelines

Skills

• Technical leadership and strategy
• Platform architecture and development
• Developer experience (DX) championing
• Quality, performance, and observability

Benefits

Salary range: $139,000 - $249,260
Additional benefits include:
- Comprehensive health and financial benefits
- Time away and everyday wellness programs
- Stock grants
- A supportive and inclusive culture
- Opportunities to shape the future of technology and innovation