Frontend Architect

About the Role :

The Client Company is building a media super-app bringing together video, audio, radio, micro-drama, news and commerce on a single platform. We're hiring a Frontend Architect to own the technical architecture and long-term technical direction for our entire frontend and mobile surface spanning our React Native consumer app, admin portal, CMS and shared design system.

This is a foundational, individual-contributor technical leadership role. You will define how a single codebase and design system scales across six content and commerce verticals, setting the technical direction that the wider Frontend Engineering team builds against.

Key Responsibilities :

- Define and own the frontend/mobile technical architecture across the React Native app, Admin Portal, CMS and internal tools

- Establish and evolve the shared Design System and component library used across all frontend surfaces

- Set technical standards, code quality bars and architectural guardrails for the Frontend Engineering team

- Make foundational technology decisions state management, navigation, module boundaries, build/release pipeline that keep engineers interchangeable across mobile, web and admin surfaces

- Partner closely with the Backend Architect and Platform Engineer to define clean API contracts and integration patterns

- Partner with the Tech Lead to translate architectural direction into a deliverable roadmap

- Conduct architecture and code reviews for high-impact changes

- Evaluate and introduce new frontend technologies and tools where they meaningfully improve velocity, performance or maintainability

- Own frontend performance, scalability and technical debt strategy as the platform scales beyond Phase 1

Required Qualifications :

- 810 years of frontend/mobile engineering experience, including at least 23 years in a formal architecture or staff/principal engineering capacity

- Deep, hands-on expertise in React Native at production scale, plus modern React, JavaScript and TypeScript

- Proven experience architecting frontend systems that serve multiple products or surfaces from a shared codebase or design system

- Strong understanding of mobile app performance, state management patterns and cross-platform architecture trade-offs

- Experience building or scaling a design system / component library

- Comfortable operating as a high-impact individual contributor, leading through technical authority and influence

- Excellent communication skills able to document and evangelize architectural decisions to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience in a media, content or commerce super-app environment

- Prior experience at a high-growth startup building 0?1 platforms

- Familiarity with backend API design (GraphQL/REST) to enable strong full-stack architectural conversations

- Experience with CI/CD, build performance optimization and release engineering for mobile apps