Lead Full Stack Engineer - NestJS/TypeScript/React.js

Description :

Our core UI tech stack includes :

- Frontend C Design System

- React + TypeScript (with Next.js) for building user interfaces.

- Storybook for our design system and component library.

- Backend s APIs

- TypeScript with NestJS for building backend services and integrating with REST and gRPC APIs.

- Testing

- Jest and Playwright for unit and end-to-end testing.

- Karate for API testing.

Key Responsibilities :

- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the UI engineering team

- Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of the design system, component library, UI architecture, and supporting backend services

- Ensure delivery of high-performance, responsive, and accessible user interfaces

- Architect and integrate APIs and backend services to support UI requirements

- Drive adoption of best practices in frontend engineering, including component standardization, security integration, and progressive loading

- Champion user-centered design and usability in partnership with UX and product teams

- Oversee integration of agentic and real-time features into the UI

- Guide the use of AI-assisted development tools and modern frontend and backend frameworks, architectural patterns, scaffolding approaches, and libraries

- Own the implementation and quality of Web Analytics and Behavioral Analytics to enable continuous improvement and evolution of our products

- Collaborate with the Developer Experience (DX) Lead to automate and streamline common engineering tasks

- Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met across the stack

- Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team

- Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development

- Drive development efficiency and alignment with product team priorities through clear prioritization frameworks and delivery metrics

Core Qualitiess Skills :

- Proven experience leading full stack or frontend engineering teams and delivering complex user-facing projects

- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript and Node.js technologies.

- Experience with design systems, component libraries, and UI performance optimization

- Experience designing, building, and integrating RESTful or GraphQL APIs

- Strong understanding of accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, and responsive design

- Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines

- Willingness to learn,share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies

- System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs across the stack

- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities

- Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change

- Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices (including OAuth 2.0, Authorization, Authentication, Chain-of-custody, Claims management, and Principle of Least Privilege [POLP])

Preferred Qualifications :

- 5+ years of hands-on full stack or frontend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role

- Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable end-to-end systems

- Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)

- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers

- Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams

Highly Desirable :

- Experience implementing and evolving enterprise-grade design systems

- Familiarity with Material UI, Storybook, and/orsimilar tools

- Experience using AI-assisted UI development and rapid prototyping

- Track record of delivering interfaces with sub-second time to first interaction and high component reuse

- Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence

- Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams