Frontend Platform Lead — React Migrations & Design Systems

fis; Florida; On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Banking/FinServ experience

Developer relations background

Codemods tooling

License renewal experience

Frontend observability

Job summary

FIS is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead adoption of a modern Frontend Platform, driving migrations from legacy Angular to React and a new design system across global teams. You will own the technical relationship with consuming teams, shape the platform roadmap, and reduce legacy costs while accelerating adoption.

You will guide a global engineering team across US and India time zones, ensuring secure, scalable, and well-documented frontend tooling and governance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building production-grade web applications at enterprise scale.
• Advanced expertise in Angular or React, with working depth in the other.
• Experience leading large framework migrations or modernization across many teams.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries or shared frontend platforms that other teams depend on.
• Proven technical leadership, including leading distributed or offshore teams.
• Clear communication with engineers, product managers and executives, and the ability to influence without authority.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools.
• Degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of product teams from legacy Angular frameworks to React and the new design system.
• Build migration playbooks, codemods, reference implementations and AI-assisted tooling that let teams move with less effort.
• Own the technical relationship with consuming teams: intake, triage, escalation and service levels during US business hours.
• Make adoption and support load visible with metrics, and use them to shape the platform roadmap.
• Lead a global engineering team spanning US and India time zones.
• Keep legacy frameworks secure and stable until their consumers migrate, then retire them.
• Rationalize shared frontend tooling and enterprise licenses, such as AG Grid, across FIS.
• Resolve complex production, integration, performance and security issues in consuming applications.
• Turn recurring issues into platform fixes, documentation and self-service tooling.
• Partner with engineering, product, security and leadership across FIS to set migration priorities and timelines.
• Coach engineers on React, modern frontend engineering and AI-assisted development.

Skills

Angular or React expertise

Migration leadership

Design systems

Technical leadership

Clear communication

AI-assisted development

Education

Degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

AG Grid

Codemods/AST tooling

Frontend tooling/licenses

Job description

FIS is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead adoption of a modern Frontend Platform, driving migrations from legacy Angular to React and a new design system across global teams. You will own the technical relationship with consuming teams, shape the platform roadmap, and reduce legacy costs while accelerating adoption.

You will guide a global engineering team across US and India time zones, ensuring secure, scalable, and well-documented frontend tooling and governance.