Tech Lead (Front End - React)

Codal; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Professional Development

Accidental Insurance

Company sponsored lunch

Job summary

Codal is a leading web design and development consultancy that solves complex problems for enterprise clients. We seek a senior frontend engineer with 8+ years of experience to own frontend quality, architecture decisions, and delivery across multiple projects.

You will establish standardized patterns for CMS implementations, drive performance and SEO improvements, and collaborate with product, design, and clients to deliver fast, accessible web experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on frontend engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in React and Next.js in production environments.
• Ability to make and enforce architectural and implementation decisions.
• Hands-on mindset with willingness to dive into active builds when needed.
• Strong written and verbal communication for client- and leadership-facing discussions.
• Experience with frontend performance optimization and Core Web Vitals.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend quality, standards, and delivery outcomes across projects.
• Lead frontend architecture, tooling, and implementation approaches.
• Establish standardized frontend patterns for CMS implementations (Shopify/BigCommerce).
• Drive simple, scalable solutions and reduce long-term technical debt.
• Create reusable components, templates, and reference architectures for repeatable delivery.
• Provide hands-on leadership to unblock teams and ensure on-time delivery.
• Improve speed, predictability, and quality of incremental releases.
• Collaborate with Product & Design for discovery and right-sized solutions.

Skills

React

Next.js

Frontend architecture

Performance optimization

GA4 analytics

SEO fundamentals

Client-facing

Code reviews

CMS headless

Tools

Sentry

Datadog

New Relic

Job description

An Introduction to Codal

Codal is an award-winning web design and development consultancy that helps enterprise organizations solve complex problems and accelerate growth through elegant, data-driven digital solutions. Our areas of expertise include application modernization, eCommerce, UX/UI design, product strategy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.

An Introduction to Codal

Codal is an award-winning web design and development consultancy that helps enterprise organizations solve complex problems and accelerate growth through elegant, data-driven digital solutions. Our areas of expertise include application modernization, eCommerce, UX/UI design, product strategy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.

Experience Range

Overall experience: 8+ years

Job Location

Ahmedabad, Gujarat (WFO)

Who you’ll be working with

We build the solutions dreamed up by the product and design teams. Our goal is to deliver working software every two weeks. We are a large team that spans across three global offices, but we collaborate and integrate front- and back-end components and interfaces to provide a user-centered experience through web and mobile platforms.

What you’ll be doing

• This is a hands-on role that will require coding and regular code reviews
• Own frontend engineering quality, standards, and delivery outcomes across projects.
• Act as the final decision-maker for frontend architecture, tooling, and implementation approaches.
• Establish and enforce standardized frontend patterns for Shopify, BigCommerce, and CMS implementations.
• Drive simplicity-first solutions, eliminating over-engineering and reducing long-term technical debt.
• Create and maintain reusable components, templates, and reference architectures to enable repeatable delivery.
• Provide hands‑on leadership on active projects to unblock teams, correct direction, and ensure on‑time delivery.
• Improve speed, predictability, and quality of incremental software releases.
• Partner with PMs and Client Principals to support engineering-led discovery and right-sized solutions.
• Reinforce a top-down engineering ownership model, supporting managers with clear guardrails and standards.
• Raise the engineering culture bar around accountability, urgency, and craftsmanship.
• Own frontend observability and performance visibility, ensuring teams proactively monitor and improve Core Web Vitals, runtime errors, and user experience metrics.
• Ensure frontend builds are analytics-ready, with consistent event tracking, performance instrumentation, and data quality standards.
• Drive frontend decisions that positively impact SEO, CRO, and overall funnel performance in collaboration with Product, Marketing, and Clients.

What you’ll need to be successful (Requirements)

Must have skills

• 8+ years of hands‑on frontend engineering experience
• Client‑facing experience, preferably in a consulting setting
• Deep expertise in React and Next.js in production environments
• Demonstrated ownership of frontend engineering standards and quality across multiple projects or teams
• Ability to make and enforce clear architectural and implementation decisions
• Hands‑on mindset with willingness to step into active builds when standards or delivery are at risk
• Strong written and verbal communication, including client- and leadership-facing discussions.
• Strong understanding of frontend performance optimization, including Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse metrics, and real‑user monitoring (RUM).
• Experience implementing and governing Google Analytics (GA4) or similar analytics platforms, including event taxonomy and data consistency.
• Solid understanding of technical SEO fundamentals (rendering strategies, metadata, structured data, page speed, crawlability).

Should have skills

• Experience delivering CMS‑driven builds (headless or traditional)
• Strong understanding of API‑driven frontend architectures (REST and/or GraphQL)
• Proven track record in improving speed, predictability, and quality of frontend software deliverables.
• Experience partnering with Product or Design during discovery and solutioning
• Familiarity with frontend testing strategies, code review practices, and CI/CD workflows
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising engineering culture and accountability.
• Experience collaborating on CRO initiatives, including A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and data‑driven UI improvements.
• Hands‑on experience with frontend observability tools such as Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, or similar error and performance monitoring platforms.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with ERP‑integrated frontend solutions
• Prior ownership of frontend accelerators or internal frameworks
• Experience in a consulting or agency environment with multiple concurrent client engagements
• Familiarity with modern eCommerce headless architectures (Hydrogen, composable commerce, etc.)

Need another reason to hit the "apply" button?

• Codal is a global agency with over 250 employees, and offices in the US, UK, Canada and India
• We are a BigCommerce Partner and have won the Partner of the year award twice (most recently this past year).
• We regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work.
• Company sponsored lunch every Wednesday.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical coverage for employees and their dependents
• Maternity/Paternity Leave: Additional time off and support for new parents
• Professional Development: Opportunities for training, workshops, conferences to enhance employees' skills and knowledge
• Accidental Insurance

Note: Codal only communicates with candidates through official @codal.com email addresses. We never request payment during the hiring process. Please be vigilant regarding recruitment scams.

At Codal, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.