[Remote] Senior Frontend Engineer (Team Lead)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Meltwater is a company that empowers customers to make better business decisions through data. They are seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer (Team Lead) to lead the development of their frontend platform, ensuring high-quality user experiences while driving technical direction and team execution.
Responsibilities
- Leading a team of frontend engineers, owning delivery, execution quality, and technical direction
- Owning complex frontend systems and features end-to-end, from design through long-term production health
- Driving org-wide initiatives across design systems, application performance, and frontend technical standards
- Defining and evolving frontend architecture to support scalability, reliability, and rapid product iteration
- Establishing and enforcing high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability
- Identifying and resolving systemic performance and reliability issues in production
- Building and scaling interactive, data-heavy applications and AI-driven workflows
- Partnering with design, backend, and AI/ML teams to shape product direction and user experience
- Guiding long-term UI technical strategy and key architectural decisions across teams
Skills
- Expertise in React and TypeScript, including architectural decision-making at scale
- Proven experience leading frontend teams or acting as a technical lead on complex systems
- Track record of owning and delivering large-scale, production-critical frontend systems
- Experience driving cross-team or org-level initiatives (e.g., design systems, platform work, performance improvements)
- Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance tradeoffs, and scalability challenges
- Experience integrating complex systems via GraphQL and/or REST APIs
- Exceptional debugging skills across browser, performance, and production environments
- Demonstrated ownership of codebase health, system reliability, and engineering standards
- Ability to operate independently and drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams
- Experience with Next.js or similar frameworks in production at scale
- Experience working in monorepos and large shared codebases
- Experience building AI-powered or data-intensive products
- Familiarity with frontend observability and performance tooling
- Strong product sense and ability to balance technical and user experience tradeoffs
Benefits
- Comprehensive paid time off that allows you to have an enhanced work-life balance
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision options
- 401(k) matching, life insurance, commuter benefits, and parental leave plans
- Complimentary CalmApp subscription for you and your loved ones, because mental wellness matters.
- Thrive within our inclusive community and seize ongoing professional development opportunities to elevate your career.
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