Lead Frontend Engineer – React & Performance Champion

FindJobIT; Philippines; Remote; PHP 5,657,000 - 7,542,000; Full time

Job summary

FindJobIT seeks a Lead Frontend Engineer to drive high-performance React-based web experiences and guide the team’s day-to-day technical direction. You will mentor engineers, remove blockers, and establish frontend best practices while shipping production code.

You will own features end-to-end, optimize performance with modern React patterns, and collaborate with backend engineers to define API contracts, with .NET work as needed on a high-precision platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production apps with React.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar role.
• Deep knowledge of modern React, including hooks, functional components, component architecture, and state management.
• Strong TypeScript, ES6+, asynchronous JavaScript, and REST API skills.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and frontend engineering best practices.
• Experience collaborating across frontend and backend systems; .NET experience is a plus.
• Strong understanding of UX and user-centered design principles.
• Ability to remain hands-on while mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
• C1 English or higher, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor frontend and cross-functional engineers, providing technical direction and establishing code review standards.
• Architect and build complex React components and feature modules with a strong focus on maintainability and user experience.
• Own frontend features end to end, from technical design through production deployment.
• Optimize application performance through code splitting, memoization, efficient state management, and other modern React patterns.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to define API contracts and contribute to .NET backend services when needed.
• Identify and remove technical bottlenecks and help the team resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Diagnose production and cross-browser issues while maintaining strong testing and documentation standards.
• Translate UX requirements into effective, accessible, and intuitive frontend solutions.

Skills

Mentoring

Tech Leadership

Frontend Architecture

Performance Optimization

UX Understanding

Cross-Functional Collaboration

React Proficiency

TypeScript

REST API

Tools

React

TypeScript

REST API

.NET

Job description

FindJobIT seeks a Lead Frontend Engineer to drive high-performance React-based web experiences and guide the team’s day-to-day technical direction. You will mentor engineers, remove blockers, and establish frontend best practices while shipping production code.

You will own features end-to-end, optimize performance with modern React patterns, and collaborate with backend engineers to define API contracts, with .NET work as needed on a high-precision platform.