UI Architect

Keka HR; Hyderabad City Taluka; On-site; PKR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Keka HR is seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to set the frontend technical direction across our platform. You will own architecture, performance, reliability, and the overall quality bar, while guiding teams through standards and reference implementations.

This is a leadership role focused on scalable UI systems, design systems, and frontend best practices, with an emphasis on collaboration with Product, Design, QE, and backend teams.

Qualifications

• 13+ years in frontend and web engineering with principal/staff-level impact across multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in modern JavaScript and TypeScript and React at scale.
• Proven track record designing large-scale UI systems and running incremental migrations (codemods, dual-running, compatibility layers).
• Strong command of frontend performance profiling, observability, and accessibility (WCAG).
• Excellent technical communication (RFCs, design docs) and a track record of influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Own large-scale frontend architecture and system design across multiple products, defining target-state architecture and path to it.
• Set strategy for micro-frontends and monorepos, including module boundaries, shared dependencies, build orchestration, and versioning.
• Architect the design system across web and mobile, including token architecture, theming, and versioning.
• Define state management strategy and responsive design standards across products.
• Author RFCs for frontend decisions and drive cross-team consensus.
• Own release planning and rollback strategies (feature flags, canaries, rollback-by-design).
• Own frontend performance through bundle analysis, budgets, and memory profiling.
• Set frontend security best practices (OIDC/OAuth, SSO, CSP, XSS/CSRF).
• Own CI/CD and deployment strategy for frontend, with observability and debugging.
• Mentor senior/lead engineers through design reviews and influence hiring standards.
• Maintain familiarity with backend API design to shape contracts and collaboration.

Skills

Frontend engineering

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Design systems

Performance profiling

Observability

Accessibility (WCAG)

Technical communication

Influence without authority

Mentorship & leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About The Role

This is a Principal-level, platform-scope role. You'll set the frontend technical direction across our products, owning architecture, performance, reliability, and the quality bar. Much of the impact comes through influence: clear standards, strong reference implementations, and architecture decisions other teams build within. This is a technical leadership role, and people management is not the primary focus.

You'll partner closely with Product, Design, QE, and backend and platform teams.

What You'll Do

• Own large-scale frontend architecture and system design across multiple products, defining the target-state architecture and a realistic path to it.
• Set the strategy for micro-frontends and monorepos, including module boundaries, shared dependencies, build orchestration, and versioning.
• Architect the design system across web and mobile, covering token architecture, component contracts, theming, adoption, and versioning.
• Define state management strategy and the criteria for choosing the right approach per use case, and set responsive design standards applied consistently across products.
• Author RFCs for org-level frontend decisions with clear trade-off analysis, and drive consensus across teams.
• Own release planning and rollback strategy, including feature flags, staged and canary rollouts, and rollback-by-design.
• Own frontend performance through bundle analysis, optimization, performance budgets, and memory profiling.
• Set frontend security best practices, including secure auth and token handling (OIDC/OAuth, SSO), CSP, and XSS and CSRF prevention.
• Own CI/CD and deployment strategy for frontend, along with observability, monitoring, and debugging across products.
• Mentor senior and lead engineers through design and code reviews, and help shape the frontend hiring bar.
• Maintain enough familiarity with backend architecture and API design to shape API contracts and collaborate effectively across teams.

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 13+ years in frontend and web engineering, including demonstrated Principal or Staff-level scope with impact across multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in modern JavaScript and TypeScript and [your primary framework, e.g., React] at scale.
• Proven track record designing large-scale UI systems and running incremental migrations using approaches such as dual-running, codemods, and compatibility layers.
• Strong command of frontend performance profiling, observability, and accessibility (WCAG).
• Excellent technical communication (RFCs, design docs) and a track record of influence without authority.

Preferred

• B2B SaaS experience with multi-tenant UI, RBAC, feature entitlements, and admin workflows.
• Experience defining and rolling out a design system across web and mobile.
• Familiarity with REST and GraphQL, client caching, and CDN or edge delivery.