Frontend (Full-Stack) Engineering Lead

Equal Parts • Pittsburgh, PA

3h

About The Position

This role is designed to bridge the gap between a product team's deep understanding of user needs and the efficient delivery of polished, production-grade frontend experiences. The Frontend (Full-Stack) Engineering Lead will be responsible for setting the technical direction for frontend engineering, ensuring quality, and managing CI/CD processes. The goal is to empower product-minded individuals to translate their domain expertise directly into frontend features, rather than centralizing development. This involves leading frontend engineering for the platform, owning the "Sandbox" middleware (Express/Postgres) for rapid feature iteration, and building the necessary scaffolding, guardrails, and tooling to elevate the entire team's capability.

Requirements

• Frontend specialist who is "Full-Stack capable" and comfortable diving into Express routes or Aurora schema.
• Views Developer Experience (DX) as a product and enjoys building tools that enhance team capabilities.
• "AI-Native" in thinking, excited to build infrastructure for safe and scalable AI agent workflows.
• Possesses deep React/TypeScript expertise, understanding the difference between a "working" UI and a "resilient" one.
• Communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, explaining technical patterns effectively.
• Excited by ownership of a platform, not just a feature list.

Responsibilities

• Set and enforce frontend architecture standards, defining patterns and conventions for a coherent codebase.
• Design and maintain a high-integrity component library (Storybook/Shadcn) as the visual source of truth.
• Act as the architect of the Sandbox environment, ensuring it remains stable and productive.
• Build templates, documented workflows, and reusable primitives to enable non-engineers to contribute confidently.
• Design "safety net" mechanisms (custom linters, strict TypeScript patterns, PR checks) to ensure AI-generated code meets production standards.
• Focus on "lowering the floor" for contributors without "lowering the ceiling" for the platform's potential.
• Manage the sandbox stack used for rapid feature testing and validation.
• Own the API layer and schema changes required to ship frontend features independently.
• Partner with the core backend team for deep infrastructure while remaining the primary owner of the "Feature BE" lifecycle.
• Architect sophisticated data-fetching and caching strategies (e.g., TanStack Query) for a snappy and consistent UI.
• Manage global state and distributed caching (e.g., ElastiCache/Redis) to minimize latency and prevent unnecessary database load.
• Design the logic for long-running job management and real-time updates, ensuring the UI handles complex backend processes gracefully.
• Own the "plumbing" that connects the UI to backend services, ensuring data remains a robust source of truth.
• Own the merge process, ensuring nothing hits production without passing the defined quality bar.
• Implement regression testing and rollback strategies to prevent "UI drift" or broken workflows.
• Manage the transition of features from the Sandbox into the production-grade frontend.

Benefits

• Major Medical Health Insurance with employer contributions toward premiums
• Voluntary benefits including dental, vision, supplemental life, disability, accident, and other optional coverages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed