Lead Frontend Engineer - Mentor & Scale Frontend

US Mobile; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual offsites

Competitive salary

Gym reimbursement

Commute reimbursement

Flexible hours

Professional development stipend

Flexible time off

Cell phone allowance

Job summary

US Mobile is seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to grow and lead the frontend team, shaping architecture, and delivering fast, accessible web and mobile apps used by millions. This player-coach role blends hands-on coding with mentoring and strategic direction across frontend systems.

You will hire, develop, and manage engineers, influence frontend roadmaps, and partner with backend, product, and design to deliver data-informed solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of frontend engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and growing frontend engineers
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions
• Strong stakeholder management skills — able to represent frontend engineering’s perspective persuasively
• Comfort operating in a fast paced environment — wearing multiple hats
• Experience partnering with Talent/Recruiting to build and scale engineering teams
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS-in-JS or equivalent styling approaches
• Experience with state management and data fetching libraries (e.g., Tanstack Query, Redux, Zustand)
• A strong eye for UX/UI detail, accessibility, and responsive design

Responsibilities

• Influence technical direction and architectural decisions across frontend systems, balancing pragmatism with long-term scalability
• Build a state-driven UI that adapts seamlessly to network-specific quirks
• Support legacy and new plans simultaneously
• Create elegant, highly accessible (a11y-first) interfaces that work across platforms
• Lead and contribute to building modern frontend features using React, TypeScript, and CSS
• Design and build UI components for both web and React Native applications
• Architect scalable systems to support millions of user interactions across different networks
• Collaborate closely with backend, product, and design teams to drive elegant, data-informed solutions
• Work with emerging technologies like Rust where performance or architecture demands
• Set and uphold engineering standards and best practices across your team
• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of frontend engineers — owning hiring decisions, performance management, career development, and day-to-day team health
• Partner closely with Talent/Recruiting to define hiring needs, shape interview processes, and build out the frontend engineering team as we scale.

Skills

Frontend leadership

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder management

TypeScript

React

CSS-in-JS

Performance optimization

UX/UI attention

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring processes

Education

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

Tools

Tanstack Query

Redux

Zustand

React Native

Rust

Job description

US Mobile is seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to grow and lead the frontend team, shaping architecture, and delivering fast, accessible web and mobile apps used by millions. This player-coach role blends hands-on coding with mentoring and strategic direction across frontend systems.

You will hire, develop, and manage engineers, influence frontend roadmaps, and partner with backend, product, and design to deliver data-informed solutions.