Job Summary

Frontend Engineering Lead

We are looking for a Frontend Engineering Lead to drive the development of modern, scalable web applications using React as the primary framework, while supporting and evolving existing Angular-based solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role, combining frontend development, delivery ownership, and team leadership. The position focuses on building high-performance, maintainable, and modular UI platforms in a complex enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

Frontend Architecture Design

- Define and implement modern frontend architectures using React (component-driven, modular design)
- Establish and evolve UI standards and reusable components
- Lead modernization initiatives, including transitioning legacy Angular implementations
- Ensure solutions are scalable and decoupled
- Leverage design-to-code and AI-assisted tooling where appropriate to accelerate UI delivery while maintaining quality

Delivery Ownership

- Own end-to-end frontend delivery
- Translate requirements into technical designs
- Drive backlog, planning, and quality
- Ensure timely delivery

Engineering Excellence

- Enforce best practices in:
- Code quality
- Testing (unit / integration / e2e)
- Performance optimization
- Usability, accessibility, and reliability

Performance, Scalability Data Handling

- Design UIs for large datasets
- Implement:
- Efficient data fetching and caching
- Pagination (offset / cursor)
- Lazy loading and virtualization

- Optimize rendering, memory usage, and latency

Search, Indexing Backend Data Integration

- Integrate with indexed / search-based backends
- Enable fast filtering, aggregation, and retrieval
- Collaborate on API / query design aligned with frontend needs

Full-Stack Collaboration

- Familiarity with APIs and service design is beneficial

Team Leadership





- Lead and mentor engineers
- Conduct code reviews
- Support hiring and capability building
- Foster ownership and quality

Required Skills Experience

Frontend Expertise

- Strong experience with React and modern frontend development
- Working knowledge of Angular
- Angular version upgrades and migration experience. Especially Angular 20.x
- Deep understanding of:
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- State management patterns
- HTML5, CSS3
- Experience translating Figma designs into high-quality, production-ready UI components with strong fidelity and consistency

Performance Data Handling

- Experience building UIs for large datasets
- Strong expertise in:
- Pagination
- Rendering optimization (memoization, virtualization)
- Efficient API usage

Search Data Retrieval

- Experience with:
- Search-driven architectures
- Filtering and aggregation
- Async data handling and eventual consistency

Architecture Design

- Experience designing scalable frontend systems
- Strong understanding of modular component architectures

Engineering Practices

- Version control
- CI/CD pipelines
- Testing frameworks

- Solid engineering discipline

AI-Assisted Development

- Ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, intelligent completion, automated testing support) to improve engineering productivity
- Ability to apply AI pragmatically to accelerate development while maintaining code quality, security, and maintainability
- Ability to evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities to enhance frontend development workflows and developer experience

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📌 Frontend Engineering Lead (Karnataka)
🏢 Swiss Re
📍 Karnataka