Front-End Tech Lead & AI-Driven Architecture Mentor

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineering Technical Leader for our front-end team in San Jose.

You will define technical direction, mentor engineers, and own delivery of medium-to-large front-end features across UX, product management, and backend partners. You’ll lead architectural decisions and help integrate AI-assisted development into daily workflows while shaping shared UI components and a metadata-driven framework.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 8+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience.
• Experience building production web applications with TypeScript or modern JavaScript (ES6+) in a component-based framework (Angular, React, Vue, or similar).
• Experience architecting and delivering large-scale web applications or multi-team front-end features.
• Experience in front-end architecture principles: component-based design, state management, performance optimization, or design system integration.
• Experience using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent).
• Experience with reactive state management patterns at scale (e.g., signals-based reactivity, NgRx Signals, Redux, MobX, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction for the front-end platform and provide architectural guidance.
• Own end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large features from design to production.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and design feedback.
• Collaborate with UX, product management, and backend teams to build the right solutions.
• Incorporate AI-assisted development patterns into daily workflow with quality controls.
• Contribute to shared component systems and metadata-driven UI framework, communicating trade-offs.

Skills

TypeScript / JavaScript

Front-end architecture

AI coding assistants

Reactive state management practices

Production web applications

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelors in STEM

Master’s degree

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineering Technical Leader for our front-end team in San Jose.

You will define technical direction, mentor engineers, and own delivery of medium-to-large front-end features across UX, product management, and backend partners. You’ll lead architectural decisions and help integrate AI-assisted development into daily workflows while shaping shared UI components and a metadata-driven framework.