Principal Engineer

The Principal Frontend Engineer is a technical leader responsible for defining and driving frontend design , ensuring high-performance, scalable, and maintainable applications. This role requires deep expertise in Angular, TypeScript, and modern frontend frameworks and a strong ability to mentor teams, influence technical direction, and turn around struggling products.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Frontend Architecture & Technical Leadership
• Define and own the frontend architecture for large-scale applications, ensuring performance, security, and maintainability.
• Enforce best practices in Angular, TypeScript, and state management ( NgRx or similar) .
• Establish UI / UX development standards, accessibility guidelines, and performance optimization strategies.
• Ensure high-quality frontend code by driving code reviews, CI / CD, and influence test automation .
• Driving Product Recovery & Performance Improvement
• Assess and turn around struggling frontend products by identifying key technical bottlenecks and implementing scalable solutions.
• Improve frontend application performance, optimizing rendering, API calls, and bundle sizes.
• Work closely with design and product teams to modernize UI / UX while ensuring minimal disruption to users.
• Address technical debt by systematically refactoring and modernizing legacy frontend codebases.
• Engineering Excellence & Hands-on Development
• Lead the development of complex, reusable UI components and frameworks.
• Set the bar for high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented code .
• Influence test automation , including unit testing, end-to-end testing, and visual regression testing.
• Foster a strong DevOps culture, ensuring seamless deployment of frontend changes.
• Mentorship & Cross-Team Collaboration
• Mentor senior frontend engineers and architects , fostering a culture of technical growth.
• Partner with backend, product, and UX teams to ensure a cohesive, performant user experience .
• Influence technical decision-making across engineering leadership .
• AI-Driven Development & Tooling
• Lead the adoption and effective usage of AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, Sourcegraph Cody) to accelerate engineering productivity.
• Evaluate, pilot, and roll out AI tools and platforms across development teams, integrating them into day-to-day workflows and CI / CD pipelines.
• Define and implement guidance and best practices for using generative AI in secure, compliant, and performance-conscious ways.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders and platform teams to measure impact , gather feedback, and continuously improve AI adoption strategy.
• Stay current with the evolving AI landscape and assess the applicability of new tools to improve developer experience, code quality, and delivery velocity.

Skills Required

Technical Expertise :

Soft Skills & Leadership

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Skills Required

Graphql, Css, Web Accessibility, state management , Html, Angular, Typescript, Docker, Rxjs, Performance Optimization, Wcag, Restful Apis, Kubernetes