Posted 8 days ago
Frontend Team Lead
AI Summary
Engineering (≈50%)- Design and evolve the architecture of a large Next.js (App Router) application: rendering strategy (SSR / SSG / ISR / RSC), code-splitting, and bundle health.- Drive web performance work end to end - Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), edge caching, and RUM-based measurement.- Set the engineering standard through code review, pairing, and picking up the most complex or ambiguous tasks.- Own frontend observability: tracing, RUM, and the feedback loop from production back into eng
About this role
Engineering (≈50%)
- Design and evolve the architecture of a large Next.js (App Router) application: rendering strategy (SSR / SSG / ISR / RSC), code-splitting, and bundle health.
- Drive web performance work end to end - Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), edge caching, and RUM-based measurement.
- Set the engineering standard through code review, pairing, and picking up the most complex or ambiguous tasks.
- Own frontend observability: tracing, RUM, and the feedback loop from production back into engineering decisions.
- Shape the CDN and caching strategy together with platform/infra (cache keys, Vary, surrogate keys, edge logic).
Leadership (≈50%)
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4-6 frontend engineers (1:1s, growth plans, performance feedback).
- Own delivery for the team: planning, prioritization, scoping, and realistic commitments.
- Partner with product, design, backend, and DevOps on roadmap and technical trade-offs.
- Improve how the team works: branching strategy, CI/CD, definition of done, release process.
Tech stack
- **Core:** TypeScript, React, Next.js (App Router), React Server Components.
- **Build / repo:** pnpm monorepo, modern bundler tooling, shared internal packages.
- **Edge / delivery:** Fastly CDN (VCL, edge caching, Early Hints), multi-brand / multi-tenant routing.
- **Observability:** OpenTelemetry with a SigNoz backend, Web Vitals RUM pipeline.
- **Platform:** Kubernetes-based deployments, object storage, Redis, MongoDB (backend-adjacent context).
- **Practices:** trunk-based development, feature flags, strong SEO discipline for customer-facing pages.
Requirements
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, with 2+ years leading a team.
- Deep expertise in React and TypeScript; production experience with Next.js (ideally App Router / RSC).
- Track record in web performance optimization and understanding of how rendering strategy affects it.
- Solid grasp of how the browser, CDN, and caching layers interact in production.
- Proven people-leadership: grown engineers, run a delivery process, handled trade-offs under real constraints.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-traffic, multi-brand or multi-tenant platforms.
- Hands-on observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, SigNoz, or similar) and RUM.
- Familiarity with Fastly or comparable CDNs at the VCL / edge-logic level.
- SEO experience for large customer-facing sites (rendering, crawlability, hreflang, canonical strategy).
Benefits
- 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
- Flexible start to the workday
- Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
- Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
- Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
- Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support
