Lead Front-End Engineer & UI Architect - React

PGIM; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan with company match

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Education benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

PTO

Job summary

PGIM Product Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer in Newark, NJ to design and deliver modern front-end experiences. You will own scalable React/TypeScript UI architectures and collaborate with .NET, Python, and database services to build cohesive, high-performance applications.

You will lead a small engineering team, drive best practices, and contribute to design systems and architectural standards within a hybrid work model requiring on-site presence part of the week.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading React-based front-end development.
• Strong collaboration with product owners and designers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of modern, scalable UI architectures using React, TypeScript, and contemporary front-end patterns, ensuring responsive, accessible, and high-performance user experiences.
• Design, build, and maintain full-stack application solutions, collaborating across React-based front ends, .NET backend services, and SQL/NoSQL data stores to deliver cohesive, end-to-end functionality.
• Translate complex business and user requirements into well-designed technical solutions, partnering closely with product owners, UX designers, architects, and stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Establish and evolve application architecture standards, including UI component design, state management strategies, API integration patterns, and data access approaches that enable scalability and long-term maintainability.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and DevOps teams to define and extend CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated builds, testing, deployments, and environment consistency across the organization.
• Ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability across application data layers by designing effective schemas, queries, and data access patterns using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Architect and integrate front-end solutions with backend and platform services, ensuring secure, efficient API consumption and seamless user interactions.
• Lead a small engineering team, providing technical direction, hands-on guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to elevate engineering quality and team effectiveness.
• Drive adoption of best practices and standards across UI development, backend services, and data access, with a strong focus on security, compliance, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert for front-end and application development, coaching engineers on React best practices, modern JavaScript/TypeScript patterns, testing strategies, and overall application design.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design guidelines, coding standards, and operational playbooks for internal teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across business and technology partners, including designers, analysts, engineers, and client stakeholders, to deliver user-centric, high-quality applications aligned with enterprise goals.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt modern tools, frameworks, and patterns that improve developer productivity, application performance, observability, and operational excellence, while sharing knowledge and driving consistency across teams.

Skills

ReactJS

TypeScript

Next.js SSR

.NET

Python

SQL/NoSQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Job description

PGIM Product Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer in Newark, NJ to design and deliver modern front-end experiences. You will own scalable React/TypeScript UI architectures and collaborate with .NET, Python, and database services to build cohesive, high-performance applications.

You will lead a small engineering team, drive best practices, and contribute to design systems and architectural standards within a hybrid work model requiring on-site presence part of the week.