Frontend Engineering Director

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor & grow a team of frontend engineers : set clear career paths, provide regular coaching, conduct performance reviews.
• Architect & design robust, scalable, maintainable frontend systems (web applications, dashboards, etc.).
• Ensure high standards of code quality, best practices for architecture, component design, UI / UX, test coverage, performance, accessibility.
• Ownership of frontend tech stack decisions (frameworks, libraries, patterns) & ensuring consistency across teams.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, UX / Design, Backend, QA, DevOps to plan, estimate, prioritize, and deliver features.
• Drive implementation of workflows involving complex state management, real‑time / high interactivity, responsive frontends.
• Oversee delivery from design through deployment : code, reviews, optimization, debugging, performance tuning.
• Establish and enforce best practices : CI / CD pipelines, automated testing, UI performance metrics, front‑end security.
• Handle trade‑offs between quick delivery and long‑term maintainability.
• Proactively identify tech debt, refactoring opportunities, and plan for evolutionary architecture improvements.
• Monitor and measure performance (e.G. page load, rendering, bundle size, resource usage) and ensure frontend stays performant even under scale.
• Stay current with frontend technologies, tools, web standards and push adoption of improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications