Senior Angular Engineer

ACA Group • Durham, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

ACA Group is a leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services, empowering clients to reimagine GRC and protect and grow their business. Their offerings include advisory, managed services, and technology solutions for hedge funds, private equity, asset managers, and wealth managers. The ComplianceAlpha SaaS platform integrates risk and compliance management, communications, and market surveillance. This is a hybrid role (2-3 days in the office) located in Durham, NC or Pittsburgh. The technology team prides itself on an innovative approach, leveraging modern architecture and GenAI for intelligent solutions. As a cloud-native SaaS provider, they ensure scalability, security, and performance. The agile team works collaboratively to create cutting-edge, reliable, and user-friendly products. The UI platform is built on a micro-frontend architecture with module federation and a shared design system. They are seeking a Front end Lead Engineer / Architect to serve as the technical and strategic leader for their UI platform, defining and driving the architecture, standards, and evolution of their frontend ecosystem across a large-scale, multi-module SaaS application. The ideal candidate is an Angular expert with deep experience in micro-frontends, design systems, and large-scale UI platforms, possessing a strong point of view on modern frontend architecture, performance, developer experience (DX), and future-facing technologies like AI-assisted development. The successful candidate will drive the technology product line to establish ACA Group as the premier Reg Tech company globally.

Requirements

• 8+ years of frontend engineering experience, including significant hands-on work with modern Angular and TypeScript.
• Proven experience leading frontend architecture for complex SaaS platforms, preferably with micro-frontends (module federation) and multi-team UI delivery.
• Deep understanding of design systems, shared component libraries, Storybook, styling architecture, tokens, accessibility, and reusable UI patterns.
• Strong knowledge of modern frontend tooling and practices, including Nx or similar build systems, testing frameworks, CI/CD, versioning, and dependency management.
• Demonstrated ability to improve frontend performance, scalability, maintainability, and developer experience across multiple teams.
• Ability to communicate architectural direction clearly, influence cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth.
• Bachelor’s degree required for candidate consideration.

Nice To Haves

• MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the frontend architecture strategy for a large, multi-module Angular platform using micro-frontends and Module Federation.
• Establish practical UI engineering standards for Angular, TypeScript, state management, signals, real-time data patterns, accessibility, and maintainable component design.
• Own the shared design system approach, including component library governance, Storybook, design tokens, theming, stylesheets, and cross-application consistency.
• Guide DevOps and developer experience for frontend, including dependency management, build tooling, testing frameworks, CI/CD, and release practices.
• Drive frontend performance best practices such as bundle optimization, lazy loading, and runtime performance monitoring.
• Partner with product, design, architecture, and engineering teams to align UI strategy with product goals and mentor teams toward consistent implementation.
• Evaluate emerging frontend technologies and AI-assisted development practices to improve UX, UI delivery, and developer productivity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior