Lead Frontend Engineer

newboxes; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: 15-20 LPA

30 days vacation

High technical ownership

Long-term architectural responsibility

Job summary

newboxes is seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to own the frontend and shape its growth as the team expands. You will be the first dedicated frontend engineer, responsible for our Vue 3 design system and the interfaces built on top of it.

This is a hands-on role where you'll build features and design-system components, set frontend standards, mentor peers, and collaborate with product and domain experts to deliver scalable, user-centered interfaces.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on Vue 3, Composition API, and TypeScript.
• Experience shipping a component library used by multiple apps.
• Strong CSS and design-system fundamentals (spacing, typography, tokens).
• Experience implementing from Figma and identifying design gaps.
• Experience taking design tokens from design files to code.
• Accessibility as a normal part of development (keyboard support, semantics).
• Good judgment on maintainability and clarity; push back on messy patterns.
• Can review frontend work and set quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Build product interfaces for BOMs, cost breakdowns, and risk registers.
• Lead interface layer end-to-end with product owner and full-stack team.
• Grow Vue 3 design system from Figma to production components with docs.
• Establish frontend coding standards, patterns, reviews, and tests.
• Mentor junior developers in Vue, TypeScript, and component design.
• Raise frontend quality across the team.

Skills

Vue 3

Composition API

TypeScript

Design system

Component library

CSS fundamentals

Accessibility

Code review

Mentoring

React/Angular background

Tools

Figma

Job description

Job Description:

About us

newboxes builds systems that enable better industrial decisions. We operate at the intersection of engineering, risk, cost, and program governance. In addition to our consulting services, we develop digital systems that structure complexity in industrial environments. Our platform initiatives focus on:

• Industrial Decision Intelligence
• Risk & Safety systems
• Cost & Complexity management
• Governance & program transparency

We build software that supports real engineering organizations - not consumer apps.

Your Mission

We are looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to take ownership of our frontend and help shape how it grows as the team expands. You will be our first dedicated frontend engineer, responsible for our Vue 3 design system and the product interfaces built on top of it.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will spend a substantial part of your time building product features and design-system components yourself, while also setting frontend standards and guiding how the interface evolves.

You will work closely with our product owner, full-stack developers, and domain experts. We care about more than implementation quality. We want someone who thinks in systems, understands how users make decisions, and designs interfaces that help engineering and program teams work effectively with complex data.

Your Tasks

• Build product interfaces that help engineering and program teams work effectively with BOMs, cost breakdowns, and risk registers
• Lead the interface layer end to end by working with the product owner on feature design, defining what the API needs to return, and collaborating with the full-stack team on implementation
• Grow our Vue 3 design system from Figma into production-ready components that are documented, tested, and versioned
• Establish frontend coding standards, component patterns, review practices, and quality gates across linting, typechecking, and tests
• Mentor junior developers in Vue, TypeScript, and component design
• Raise the overall quality bar for frontend decisions across the team

Working Model

• Work from our office in Chennai
• Close daily collaboration with our team in Germany, with at least 4 to 5 hours of overlap
• You will work closely with product, engineering, and domain experts rather than in isolation
• We build for the long term and value getting things right over shipping fast

Your Profil

• 5+ years of professional frontend engineering experience
• Deep hands-on experience with Vue 3, the Composition API, and TypeScript. A strong React or Angular background is also fine if you can become productive in Vue quickly
• Experience shipping and maintaining a component library used by more than one application or team
• Strong CSS and layout fundamentals, and fluency in design-system concepts such as spacing, typography, states, and tokens
• Experience implementing accurately from Figma and spotting gaps or inconsistencies in the design itself
• Experience taking design tokens from design files through to code
• Accessibility as a normal part of how you build, including keyboard support, semantics, and sensible interaction patterns
• Strong judgment around maintainability, clarity, and when to push back on messy patterns
• The ability to act as a go-to reviewer and set the standard for frontend quality

Nice to have

• Ability to author or refine designs in Figma, not just implement from it
• Experience in industrial, manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, ERP, or PLM domains

Why this Role is special

• You build systems that directly influence industrial decision-making
• You work closely with engineering and management consultants
• You contribute to the architecture of a long-term industrial platform
• You are part of a performance-driven but structured organization
• You shape the technical backbone of our future growth

Your Benefits

• 15-20 LPA
• 30 days vacation (excl. sick leave)
• High technical ownership
• Long-term architectural responsibility

Your application

About us

newboxes stands for a renaissance of engineering.

We help companies and engineers think deeper, design smarter, and move forward with humanity.

As an engineering-focused management and innovation consultancy, newboxes combines systems thinking, cultural transformation, and technological expertise. Our solutions span from risk and safety to cost and complexity, delivered by a global team based in Germany and India.

Our approach is rooted in a new form of engineering intelligence that unites rational clarity, creative design, and human values.

We don’t just deliver projects. We create movements.

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