Lead Frontend Engineer

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Digital Media • News + Entertainment • Social Media
The Role
The Lead Frontend Engineer will mentor a frontend team, architect complex solutions, and oversee project development while ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices. They will collaborate across teams to deliver user-centric designs and stay updated with frontend technologies, adapting to changing requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of frontend developers

  • Architect, design, and implement complex frontend solutions

  • Drive projects from concept to completion, ensuring high-quality deliverables

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative frontend solutions across both greenfield and legacy estates

  • Establish coding standards, best practices, and enforce architectural guidelines for frontend development

  • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback

  • Stay current with emerging frontend technologies and industry trends

  • Champion user-centric design and development practices

  • Adapt quickly to changing requirements and technological landscapes

Skills and Experience required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

  • 7+ years of experience in frontend development

  • 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role

  • Proven track record of successfully delivered complex frontend projects

  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

  • Experience with microservices architecture and its implications on frontend development

  • Familiarity with agile development methodologies

  • Experience with scalable, high-performance web applications

Key Attributes:

  • Product-focused mindset with a strong emphasis on user empathy

  • Ability to work and deliver with high velocity

  • Adaptable and resilient in the face of changing requirements and technologies

  • Proactive in identifying and solving user experience challenges

  • Passionate about creating intuitive, efficient, and visually appealing user interfaces

  • Skilled at balancing technical constraints with user needs and business goals

  • Comfortable making decisions and prioritizing work in a fast-paced environment

  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

  • Open to giving and receiving constructive feedback

Good to Have:

  • Experience implementing and extending design systems

  • Experience with ReactFlow

  • Proficiency in 2D graphics with HTML canvas

  • Expertise in Tailwind CSS

  • Experience with WebSocket implementations in frontend applications

  • Knowledge of build system configuration and optimization

Top Skills

HTML
The Company
London
2,498 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

At Tag, we turn big ideas into high-impact marketing, working with leading brands and agencies to deliver content at speed and scale across channels, cultures and regions.

With intelligent, sustainable and technology-driven solutions at the heart of everything we do, we enable brands to operate more efficiently and effectively to stand out, sell more and waste less.

Every decision at Tag is made in consideration of our clients, our people, our planet, and our communities. With 2,700 experts in 29 countries across the world, our distributed hub model has allowed us to be the always-on, end-to-end production partner of choice for over half a century.

Find out more at tagww.com

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