Frontend Architect & AI-Driven Tech Leader

ClickUp; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is hiring a Principal Frontend Engineer to shape the long-term frontend strategy across products. You will lead architectural decisions, drive performance, and mentor senior engineers in a fast-growing environment.

You will collaborate with product, design, backend and integrations teams to build fast, reliable frontend systems in Angular and React, ensuring scalability and maintainability at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems.
• Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users.
• Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture.
• Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas.
• Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels.
• Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments.
• Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular and React that support rapid product development.
• Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems.
• Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization.
• Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems.
• Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards.
• Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnership.

Job description

ClickUp is hiring a Principal Frontend Engineer to shape the long-term frontend strategy across products. You will lead architectural decisions, drive performance, and mentor senior engineers in a fast-growing environment.

You will collaborate with product, design, backend and integrations teams to build fast, reliable frontend systems in Angular and React, ensuring scalability and maintainability at scale.