Engineering Lead- Frontend Architect

Role: Engineering Lead (React)- Frontend Architect

Location: NYC(Hybrid),

About the Role

We’re hiring a hands-on Tech Lead to architect and scale an internal investment insights platform for a top global private equity firm. The platform will be used across multiple internal product teams and requires reusable components, modular dashboards, and a high-quality developer experience.

This role blends technical leadership and consultative engineering. You’ll define frontend architecture, guide implementation, and work directly with Product, Design, and client Engineering leadership onsite in New York.

Support a distributed engineering team (NY + offshore) through reviews, onboarding, and unblockers

Communicate tradeoffs, assumptions, and alternatives clearly to mixed audiences

Experience

15+ years engineering experience with a strong frontend focus

Deep experience with React and component-driven architectures at scale

Experience with micro-frontend architectures (independently deployable modules)

Experience building or extending component libraries (not just consuming)

Familiarity with AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate)

Experience with CI/CD, containerization, versioning, and semantic versioning

Comfortable working through evolving requirements and partial clarity

Frontend Technologies & Skills

Rendering & Architecture

Client-Side Rendering (CSR)

Server-Side Rendering (SSR) using frameworks such as Next.js

State Management

Redux, Zustand, React Context, or state machines

Performance & Profiling

Optimizing FCP/LCP, first paint, render time

Tooling: Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, Chrome DevTools, React Profiler

Real-Time Communication

Experience with WebSockets for real-time experiences

Styling & Frameworks

Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS

CSS/SCSS, Styled Components, or CSS-in-JS approaches

Component Tooling

Storybook for component development and documentation

UI Performance Testing

Familiarity with metrics: TTI, TBT, FCP, LCP

Tooling: Lighthouse, WebPageTest API, browser profiling, Web Vitals

Component Ecosystem Awareness (Nice to Have)

Material UI, Ant Design, Chakra UI

How You Work

We’re looking for someone who

Communicates tradeoffs and proposes pragmatic, supportable solutions

Works autonomously and drives decisions forward even with partial clarity

Explains architectural reasoning clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Collaborates closely with Product and Design to shape solutions, not just execute tickets

Treats documentation, onboarding, and developer experience as essential parts of delivery

Why This Role

Strategic, multi-year platform initiative with high visibility

Direct onsite collaboration with senior Product, Business, and Engineering leaders

Real architectural ownership beyond feature delivery