Engineering Lead (Frontend-Centric)
Location: New York, Onsite (4 days a week)
Visa : Any Visa is Fine
About the Role:
We re hiring a hands-on Tech Lead to architect and scale an internal investment insights platform for a top global private equity firm. The platform will be used across multiple internal product teams and requires reusable components, modular dashboards, and high-quality developer experience. This role blends technical leadership and consultative engineering. You ll define frontend architecture, guide implementation, and work directly with Product, Design, and client Engineering leadership onsite in New York.
What You Will Do:
Platform & Component Architecture:
- Own the component library and frontend ecosystem used across multiple micro-apps
- Package, version, and distribute shared components with clear migration paths
- Support consumption in both Bootstrap and Tailwind environments without fragmentation
- Define testing strategy across units, integration, visual, and E2E levels
Technical Delivery:
- Lead the implementation of React-based micro-apps backed by AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate)
- Define and enforce CI/CD standards for publishing and deployments
- Produce documentation, usage guides, and integration examples for downstream teams
Collaboration & Influence:
- Partner with Product and Design to translate ambiguous requirements into actionable plans
- Present architectural decisions to client Tech Leads and Engineering Committees
- Support a distributed engineering team (NY + offshore) through reviews, onboarding, and unblockers
- Communicate tradeoffs, assumptions, and alternatives clearly to mixed audiences
What We re Looking For:
Experience:
- 12 15 years engineering experience with a strong frontend focus
- Deep experience with React and component-driven architecture at scale
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures (independently deployable modules)
- Experience building or extending component libraries (not just consuming)
- Familiarity with AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate)
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization, versioning, and semantic versioning
- Comfortable working through evolving requirements and partial clarity
Frontend Technologies & Skills:
Rendering & Architecture:
- Client-Side Rendering (CSR)
- Server-Side Rendering (SSR) using frameworks such as Next.js
State Management
- Redux, Zustand, React Context, or state machines
Performance & Profiling
- Optimizing FCP/LCP, first paint, render time
- Tooling: Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, Chrome DevTools, React Profiler
Real-Time Communication
- Experience with WebSockets for real-time experiences
Styling & Frameworks
- Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS
- CSS/SCSS, Styled Components, or CSS-in-JS approaches
Component Tooling
- Storybook for component development and documentation
UI Performance Testing
- Familiarity with metrics: TTI, TBT, FCP, LCP
- Tooling: Lighthouse, WebPageTest API, browser profiling, Web Vitals
Component Ecosystem Awareness (Nice to Have)
- Material UI, Ant Design, Chakra UI
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