Principal Front End Engineer - Paze

Essential Functions

• Defines and advances enterprise front-end engineering strategy, architecture, and standards across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Establishes principles and guardrails for quality, accessibility, maintainability, operational readiness, testing, and scalability.
• Owes technical product design and architecture for critical front-end platforms and strategic initiatives.
• Partners with product management, software engineering, UX, and architecture to shape engineering approaches and align with technology roadmaps.
• Building production-grade web SDKs for external partner or merchant integrations for secure browser-based flows.
• Identifies and drives adoption of industry best practices, emerging technologies, and modernization opportunities.
• Provides enterprise-level guidance on cloud alignment, CI/CD, automated testing, and sustainable engineering practices.
• Acts as a senior point of expertise on difficult engineering issues and strategic technical decisions.
• Mentors engineers and technical leaders across the organization and serves as a role model for engineering excellence.
• Builds trusted relationships across functions and influences change that improves engineering outcomes, delivery capability, and organizational maturity.
• Represents the organization in high-impact technical discussions with senior stakeholders, customers, or executive leadership as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically 15 or more years of progressive experience designing and developing complex software or web-based systems.
• Prior experience designing, building, and supporting production-grade web SDKs, including JavaScript/TypeScript API design, browser compatibility, versioning, backward compatibility, developer documentation, integration patterns, performance, security, and observability.
• Deep expertise in front-end architecture, web platform engineering, application design, and enterprise-scale delivery.
• Proven success leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions and drive strategic initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of SDLC best practices, software development methodologies, DevOps practices, and automated testing approaches.
• Strong experience with modern web technologies, front-end frameworks, API integration, CI/CD, source control, and cloud-aligned delivery models.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience leading major modernization efforts involving cloud migration, platform transformation, or large-scale architecture redesign.
• Expertise in design systems, performance engineering, front-end observability, and enterprise web governance.
• Broad exposure to related technologies such as monitoring, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure, consistent with the Principal source profile’s preferred qualifications.

Competencies

• Enterprise technical leadership
• Vision and strategy
• Executive communication
• Organizational influence
• Innovation and thought leadership
• Architecture governance
• Mentorship and talent development
• Change leadership

Physical Requirements

• Working conditions consist of a normal office environment.
• Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours.
• Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching.
• Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently.
• Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.