Principal Engineer - Platform, UI

• Participate in product discovery and technical solution shaping activities.
• Collaborate with Product Management and UX teams to evaluate feasibility, tradeoffs, adoption implications, accessibility considerations, and delivery approaches.
• Take ownership of technical outcomes, user experience quality, operational sustainability, and platform adoption success.
• Promote continuous improvement across engineering practices, frontend architecture, developer experience, and design system maturity.
• Balance immediate delivery objectives with long-term maintainability, extensibility, scalability, accessibility, and operational excellence.
• Drive alignment with Frontline architectural standards, engineering patterns, and UX consistency goals.
• Help ensure frontend platform capabilities are reusable, composable, configurable, and easy for downstream teams to adopt.
• Act like an owner by proactively identifying opportunities, risks, modernization needs, and improvements that advance broader organizational goals.

• Serve as the Technical Lead for a UI Platform engineering pod responsible for shared frontend capabilities and design system components.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers within the pod.
• Lead technical execution activities including decomposition, implementation strategy, design reviews, and delivery coordination.
• Partner with Engineering Managers to ensure successful sprint execution and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Platform Architects and UX leaders to align frontend platform solutions with architectural standards and user experience strategy.
• Promote engineering craftsmanship with strong emphasis on usability, accessibility, maintainability, extensibility, performance, and operational excellence.
• Facilitate technical discussions and effectively drive alignment across engineering, UX, and product stakeholders.
• Help establish reusable frontend patterns and implementation approaches that improve consistency across Frontline applications.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and UX teams during discovery activities to shape reusable frontend platform solutions.
• Participate in early-stage ideation, technical feasibility analysis, rapid prototyping, and user experience discussions.
• Help identify assumptions, dependencies, accessibility concerns, operational implications, and adoption risks before delivery commitments are made.
• Contribute to defining MVP scope and iterative delivery strategies.
• Ensure frontend platform capabilities are designed with downstream developer experience, usability, accessibility, and consistency in mind.
• Participate in refinement sessions to ensure requirements are technically sound, testable, reusable, and operationally sustainable.

• Design and implement reusable frontend platform capabilities, component libraries, and design system frameworks.
• Develop and maintain shared UI components using React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Build frontend platform capabilities that support composability, configurability, accessibility, and consistent user experiences across the product portfolio.
• Contribute to frontend architecture patterns, state management approaches, theming strategies, and shared interaction models.
• Support modernization initiatives involving legacy Angular-based applications and progressive migration strategies.
• Partner with downstream product teams to improve adoption experience and reduce integration friction.
• Contribute to frontend performance optimization, accessibility compliance, operational support, and developer tooling improvements.
• Help establish standards and practices for frontend testing, component quality, and user experience consistency.

• Lead Design Sketch reviews and contribute solution-level architecture documentation.
• Ensure frontend platform solutions align with established engineering standards, design system principles, accessibility requirements, and architectural patterns.
• Drive adoption of modern CI/CD, automated testing, and frontend operational excellence practices.
• Champion maintainable, accessible, and operable-by-default frontend engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, pair programming, and technical coaching.
• Promote reusable frontend platform capabilities and encourage consistency across product teams.
• Help establish engineering practices that improve long-term maintainability, developer productivity, and UX consistency.

• Effectively leverage modern AI-assisted and agentic development tooling such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex to improve engineering productivity and accelerate frontend development activities.
• Apply sound engineering judgment when supervising, validating, and operationalizing AI-generated outputs.
• Utilize AI-assisted workflows to support component generation, modernization efforts, testing, documentation, accessibility improvements, and solution exploration while maintaining strong standards for quality, usability, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Encourage experimentation and continuous improvement in frontend engineering practices while maintaining strong delivery discipline.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading technical execution for frontend engineering teams or pods.
• Strong experience designing and building modern frontend platforms, component libraries, or design systems.
• Strong proficiency in:
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Modern frontend architecture patterns
• Experience building reusable component-based frontend systems.
• Experience with modern CSS frameworks and responsive design approaches.
• Strong understanding of frontend usability, accessibility, and user experience principles.
• Experience with frontend testing strategies and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud-native application architectures and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience supporting frontend modernization initiatives including migration from Angular-based applications.
• Experience operating within Agile/Scrum delivery models.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate frontend engineering practices across teams.

• Experience building shared frontend platform capabilities consumed across multiple product teams.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale design systems.
• Familiarity with Storybook or similar component development tooling.
• Experience with accessibility compliance standards and inclusive design practices.
• Experience collaborating closely with UX and Product organizations.
• Familiarity with Node.js and backend-for-frontend concepts.
• Experience collaborating with offshore or geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted or agentic development workflows in professional software engineering environments.

• Acts like an owner by taking accountability for outcomes, adoption, quality, consistency, and long-term sustainability.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset that balances local optimization with portfolio-wide user experience impact.
• Pragmatic and delivery-oriented while maintaining high engineering and usability standards.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping teams create clarity.
• Strong collaborator who values partnership, transparency, and shared success.
• Passionate about frontend craftsmanship, accessibility, developer experience, and exceptional user experiences.
• Curious, adaptable, and continuously learning.
• A “One Team” mindset grounded in servant leadership and shared accountability.

• Bonus eligibility and long-term incentive opportunities
• 401(k) with company match
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Generous paid time off and tuition reimbursement