Lead Software Engineer, Frontend

MOTER Technologies; Torrance (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Catered office lunches

Flexible office hours

Collaborative culture

Health and wellness focus

Job summary

MOTER Technologies in Torrance, CA, is hiring a Lead Software Engineer, Frontend. This hands-on leadership role focuses on the technical direction of web applications using TypeScript, React, Redux, and Next.js. The Lead will also mentor engineering teams and partner with product and design to enhance user experiences.

The position offers a salary range of $160,000 - $180,000/year, with a comprehensive benefits package. Remote flexibility is available as the role requires office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Qualifications

• Lead technical design discussions and architectural decisions.
• Proven experience building and maintaining production applications.
• Demonstrated success mentoring and guiding engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the frontend architecture for the web applications.
• Partner closely with product and design for user experiences.
• Set expectations and improve frontend performance metrics.
• Lead and mentor frontend engineers through collaboration.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Redux

Next.js

HTML

CSS

Web performance

Accessibility

AI-assisted coding tools

Education

7+ years of professional frontend engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

Node.js

Express

AWS

Job description

MOTER Technologies, Inc. (“MOTER”) is unlocking the world of connected vehicle data to power innovative products and services for the automotive, mobility, and insurance industries. Our edge-computing-based advanced data analytics and software platform transforms vehicle data into actionable insights that drive the next generation of driver scoring, risk analytics, and insurance solutions.

MOTER is modernizing the insurance industry by equipping insurers with real‑time vehicle insights to enhance underwriting, streamline claims, and improve risk assessment. To drive this transformation, MOTER is building white‑labeled insurance products for some of the most recognized brands in the automotive industry. These offerings leverage the full suite of MOTER’s connected vehicle data solutions—including next‑generation telematics and claims visualization tools—bridging the gap between automakers and insurers, accelerating innovation, and delivering measurable value across the mobility ecosystem.

Job Overview

MOTER is hiring a Lead Software Engineer, Frontend to lead the technical direction of our web applications and ship the interfaces our customers use every day. This is a hands‑on leadership role for a strong frontend engineer who combines architecture, product judgment, and execution. The Lead will shape MOTER’s TypeScript, React, Redux, and Next.js platform, raise the bar for quality across design systems, accessibility, performance, and observability, and partner closely with product, design, backend, and platform teammates to deliver polished, trustworthy software. The role also includes mentoring engineers, leading technical decision‑making, and helping the team move faster without sacrificing quality. The Lead Software Engineer reports to the Director of Engineering.

Essential Functions

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Own the frontend architecture for MOTER's web applications, including component structure, state management patterns, rendering strategy, and data‑fetching approaches.
• Lead technical design discussions and RFCs, making pragmatic trade‑offs between speed, maintainability, and long‑term product quality.
• Guide framework, tooling, and platform decisions across the frontend stack—including upgrades, shared packages, build performance, and developer experience—while setting a high bar for code quality, testing, documentation, and code review.
• Contribute meaningfully to the codebase as a hands‑on technical leader.

Product Craft & UX Engineering

• Partner closely with product and design to turn ambiguous requirements into intuitive, high‑quality user experiences.
• Build interfaces for complex, data‑rich workflows with strong attention to usability, clarity, trust, and edge‑case behavior.
• Prototype quickly to reduce risk and accelerate learning, and when to harden solutions for production.
• Champion thoughtful interaction design, including loading states, error handling, empty states, motion, and responsive behavior.

Design Systems, Accessibility & Quality

• Own and evolve MOTER's component library and frontend patterns in partnership with design.
• Make accessibility a default part of the engineering process, including semantic HTML, keyboard support, focus management, and practical assistive technology testing.
• Establish consistent standards for frontend testing, visual quality, and release confidence.

Performance & Observability

• Set expectations for frontend performance and drive improvements to Core Web Vitals, bundle size, responsiveness, and runtime reliability, making sound rendering decisions across server‑side rendering, static generation, and client‑side interactivity.
• Improve frontend observability by partnering with backend and platform engineers on logging, error tracking, tracing, and product analytics.
• Design resilient client behavior around loading failures, stale data, retries, and degraded backend conditions.

Platform Partnership

• Partner with backend and platform teams on the BFF/API layer, supporting web application, and contributing to endpoint design, contracts, authentication flows, and developer ergonomics.
• Work effectively with AWS‑hosted and serverless environments with an understanding of operational, security, and cost trade‑offs.
• Collaborate on CI/CD, preview environments, release workflows, and production debugging so frontend changes can ship safely and quickly.
• Contribute to infrastructure and deployment discussions where frontend requirements matter, without needing to be the sole owner of the cloud platform.

AI‑Assisted Engineering

• Use AI‑assisted development tools effectively and help the team adopt practical patterns including review expectations, testing standards, and appropriate guardrails that improve speed and quality without creating unnecessary process overhead.

Leading & Mentoring Engineers

• Lead and mentor frontend engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design reviews, and day‑to‑day collaboration.
• Help senior engineers sharpen their judgment on scope, implementation strategy, and trade‑offs.
• Unblock progress across the team through pairing, debugging, cross‑functional collaboration, and clear technical communication.
• Partner with engineering leadership and recruiting on interview design, candidate evaluation, and scaling the frontend team thoughtfully.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional frontend engineering experience, including meaningful experience leading large or business‑critical product surfaces.
• Strong production experience with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend architecture patterns.
• Experience building and maintaining production applications with Next.js or a comparable modern React framework.
• Strong understanding of state management patterns for complex client applications; experience with Redux is a plus.
• Strong fundamentals in HTML, CSS, accessibility, and web performance.
• Experience building polished user interfaces for complex workflows, data‑heavy applications, or multi‑step product experiences.
• Demonstrated experience improving frontend quality through architecture, code review, testing, and engineering standards.
• Experience building or evolving component libraries, shared UI systems, or design systems in production.
• Solid understanding of frontend observability, including error tracking, analytics, logging, and production debugging workflows.
• Ability to work effectively across the front‑end and back‑end boundary, including API design, integration patterns, and authentication flows.
• Familiarity with cloud‑hosted application environments, CI/CD pipelines, and modern release practices.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, including reviewing, contributing to, and safely operating production infrastructure changes.
• Practical experience using AI‑assisted coding tools and good judgment about where they help and where they require extra care.
• Demonstrated success mentoring other engineers and raising the technical bar on a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High work ethic, self‑motivation, and initiative.
• Good judgment, high integrity, and the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a larger team.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Redux in a large‑scale application.
• Experience with Node.js and Express in a BFF or API layer.
• Experience with AWS services that commonly support web platforms, such as CloudFront, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, or Cognito.
• Experience contributing to frontend deployment workflows, preview environments, or infrastructure discussions.
• Experience in insurtech, mobility, automotive, telematics, or other data‑rich domains.

Office Location

• Torrance, CA (Tuesdays and Thursdays in office)

Compensation

• For California based hires, the annual salary range is $160,000 - $180,000/year depending on experience.
• This is an exempt position.

Degree of Travel

• 10%

Benefits Of Working With Us

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage; basic life and long‑term disability insurance; Health Savings Account (HSA); Flexible Spending Account (FSA); generous paid time off and holiday pay; and a 401(k) with company match.
• Complimentary catered office lunches.
• Flexible office hours to support work‑life balance.
• A collaborative culture where your input directly impacts the product and company trajectory.
• A health and wellness‑focused work environment with team social events.
• Business casual dress code.

EEO Statement

MOTER Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
If you require accommodation or assistance with your application, please contact our Human Resources department at [phone].