Frontend Architecture Lead: Micro Frontends & React/Next.js

ZealHire Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. seeks an experienced Front End UI Architect to define and govern scalable, high-performing customer experiences across digital commerce.

You will establish frontend standards, guide React and Next.js modernization, and evolve micro-frontend and design-system strategies for consistent experiences. You will partner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, engineering, QA, SRE, security, analytics, and platform teams to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions

Qualifications

• 10+ years of frontend or software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a frontend, UI, solution, or platform architecture role.
• Deep experience with Next.js and rendering architectures including SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, React Server Components, client rendering, and hydration tradeoffs.
• Experience with state and data-management approaches such as Redux Toolkit, React Query, Context API, GraphQL clients, and event-based communication.
• Ability to communicate architecture clearly to engineers, product partners, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders through diagrams, decision records, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Large-scale retail or e-commerce platforms with high traffic, complex merchandising, personalization, search, cart, checkout, or order-management journeys.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state frontend architecture and multi-year modernization roadmap for digital commerce experiences.
• Own architectural decisions across React, TypeScript, Next.js, server rendering, React Server Components, hydration, routing, state management, caching, and frontend integration patterns.
• Establish and govern Micro Frontend architecture, including domain boundaries, composition, shared dependencies, deployment independence, versioning, and operational ownership.
• Create reference architectures, solution patterns, architectural decision records, standards, and guardrails that delivery teams can apply consistently.
• Embed accessibility, SEO, privacy, security, observability, resiliency, and operational readiness into frontend designs from the start.
• Mentor frontend leads and engineers, facilitate architecture reviews, and build alignment across multiple product teams, vendors, and enterprise platforms.
• Partner with DevOps and SRE to standardize CI/CD, quality gates, automated testing, telemetry, release strategies, and production support practices.
• Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, or comparable content, experimentation, and analytics platforms.
• Performance and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, Splunk, or Application Insights.
• Cloud-native, edge-compute, CDN, feature-flag, experimentation, and progressive-delivery patterns.
• Experience modernizing legacy frontend estates while protecting business continuity and enabling incremental delivery.

Skills

Frontend architecture

React

Next.js

SSR / CSR / hydration

State management

Communication

Tools

Redux Toolkit

React Query

Context API

GraphQL clients

Job description

ZealHire Inc. seeks an experienced Front End UI Architect to define and govern scalable, high-performing customer experiences across digital commerce.

You will establish frontend standards, guide React and Next.js modernization, and evolve micro-frontend and design-system strategies for consistent experiences. You will partner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, engineering, QA, SRE, security, analytics, and platform teams to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions