Lead Front-End Engineer: AI-Driven Tooling & Fast CI/CD

EPAM Systems; México; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Employee training & upskilling

Global career opportunities

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Front-End Developer to modernize tooling, accelerate CI/CD, and enable AI-assisted development across teams. You will remove workflow friction from local setup to production and coach engineers on best practices to boost productivity at scale.

You will optimize front-end lifecycles, standardize monorepo patterns, and drive adoption of AI tools while collaborating with DevOps to improve performance and delivery times across global projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of JavaScript and TypeScript experience in modern front-end ecosystems.
• Expertise in React and Next.js.
• Lead-level ownership experience driving developer experience or platform initiatives.
• Strong CI/CD pipeline expertise with build, test, and release automation.
• Advanced build tooling knowledge across bundlers, monorepos, and code quality standards.
• Strong performance optimization skills for builds, bundles, and feedback loops.
• Hands-on AI-assisted coding tools experience and governance mindset for safe adoption.
• Excellent communication skills for documentation, enablement, and cross-team collaboration.
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2, Upper-Intermediate)

Responsibilities

• Optimize the front-end development lifecycle from local setup to production deployment.
• Diagnose bottlenecks in build, test, and deployment flows and implement measurable fixes.
• Design and maintain shared front-end tooling, templates, and boilerplate configurations.
• Standardize monorepo practices, linting, formatting, and dependency management patterns.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted coding tools and define safe usage guidelines.
• Pilot and integrate AI agents and code-generation workflows into everyday engineering practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps to accelerate CI/CD, reduce build times, and improve feedback loops.
• Improve bundle size, compilation speed, and overall runtime performance of front-end deliverables.
• Document best practices and deliver training to help teams adopt new workflows quickly.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React/Next.js

Lead ownership

CI/CD pipelines

Build tooling/monorepos

Performance optimization

AI-assisted tooling

Communication

English (B2)

Tools

Vite

Turborepo

Nx

ESBuild

GitHub Actions

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Front-End Developer to modernize tooling, accelerate CI/CD, and enable AI-assisted development across teams. You will remove workflow friction from local setup to production and coach engineers on best practices to boost productivity at scale.

You will optimize front-end lifecycles, standardize monorepo patterns, and drive adoption of AI tools while collaborating with DevOps to improve performance and delivery times across global projects.