Principal Angular Engineer — AI-First Frontend Leader

IFS; Staines-upon-Thames; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is building an AI-first planning and simulation product. We seek a Lead / Principal Engineer with hands-on Angular experience to lead frontend engineering, while contributing to backend and architecture ownership.

You will design AI-first UI patterns, deliver scalable UI, collaborate with backend teams, UX, and product, and mentor others in a fast-evolving enterprise SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• Frontend experience building enterprise SaaS UI with AI-first patterns.
• Experience collaborating with backend, UX, and product teams.
• Strong performance handling data-heavy views and scalable UI.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontend architecture and delivery across the product.
• Design AI-first UI patterns surfacing automated status updates and suggestions.
• Work with backend, UX and product as requirements evolve.
• Contribute to backend services in Go where needed.
• Build and maintain enterprise integrations and platforms.

Skills

Angular experience

Frontend architecture

UI pattern design

Go backend knowledge

Mentoring

Code reviews

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance optimization

Tools

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

IFS is building an AI-first planning and simulation product. We seek a Lead / Principal Engineer with hands-on Angular experience to lead frontend engineering, while contributing to backend and architecture ownership.

You will design AI-first UI patterns, deliver scalable UI, collaborate with backend teams, UX, and product, and mentor others in a fast-evolving enterprise SaaS environment.