Principal Engineer

Overview

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:

• Expert-level proficiency in Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, HTML, and CSS.

• Strong experience with performance optimization, lazy loading, and state management.

• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and WebSockets.

• Experience with frontend DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes is a plus).

• Strong knowledge of web accessibility (WCAG), security best practices, and cross-browser compatibility.

• Experience driving AI-assisted engineering transformation, with hands-on use and rollout of tools like Copilot, Amazon Q, or similar platforms

Soft Skills & Leadership:

• Ability to diagnose and turn around troubled frontend projects.

• Proven track record of influencing engineering direction at an organizational level.

• Strong mentorship and communication skills to elevate engineering teams.

• Experience working with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to align technical strategy with business goals.