Front End Lead developer

Orion Innovation; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Innovation is seeking a Lead Front End Developer to join their talented team in Chennai, working in a hybrid environment. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in Angular and TypeScript, alongside a strong background in mentoring and technical leadership. You will guide design decisions, enforce coding standards, and collaborate closely with various teams to ensure cohesive user experiences. Join a dynamic company focused on digital transformation across diverse industries.

Qualifications

• Proven experience providing technical leadership within a delivery team.
• Experience mentoring developers and guiding front-end design.
• Solid experience building Angular applications for production.

Responsibilities

• Lead code reviews ensuring quality of front-end code.
• Set and enforce engineering standards and best practices.
• Work closely with back-end, product, UX, and platform teams.

Skills

Angular

TypeScript

Git

Unit testing

Integration testing

End-to-end testing

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Lead Front End Developer

Location: Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Kochi.

Hybrid role (12 days in office).

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Proven experience providing technical leadership within a delivery team, including mentoring developers and guiding front‑end design decisions.
• Setting and enforcing engineering standards, best practices, and quality gates for Angular codebases.
• Performing and leading code reviews, ensuring readability, performance, accessibility, and security of front‑end code.
• Good understanding of Git version control and branching strategies, using GitHub and/or Azure DevOps.
• Solid experience building Angular applications for production, including bundling, optimisation, minification, tree‑shaking, and build configuration.
• Strong front‑end development experience using Angular and TypeScript (mandatory), building maintainable, testable, and performant UI applications.
• Experience implementing unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests for Angular applications (e.g., Jasmine/Karma, Jest, Playwright).
• Solid understanding of modern front‑end architecture patterns, state management, and component design.
• Experience working closely with back‑end, product, UX, and platform teams to deliver cohesive user experiences.

Nice to have

• Experience developing and deploying Angular applications in Microsoft Azure environments (e.g., CI/CD, App Services).

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.