Principal Frontend Engineer

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to lead the long-term frontend vision for a unified AI-powered workspace. You will drive architecture across surfaces, mentor engineers, and partner with product, design, and backend teams to ensure fast, reliable frontend systems at scale.

The role is hands-on and strategic, requiring deep expertise in Angular, React, TypeScript and state management, with a strong focus on performance and developer productivity in a remote, US-based setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS and NgRx or similar state management.
• Strong focus on performance optimization, scalable architectures, and reusable components.
• Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments.
• Lead design of scalable, performant frontend systems in Angular and React.
• Resolve cross-team performance, state management, and scalability challenges.
• Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture.
• Raise the bar for quality, testing, and engineering rigor across frontend.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact initiatives and unblock teams.

Skills

Frontend architecture

Angular

React

TypeScript

RxJS

NgRx

Performance optimization

Tools

Testing infrastructure

Job description

# Principal Frontend EngineerClickUp250k–300k USDFull-timeremote· leadUSAangularreacttypescriptListed via Jobicy · posted 25 Oct 2026. The application happens there, not on DevConnect.Apply on Jobicy## DescriptionAt ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible.Role OverviewWe’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp. In this role, you will lead architectural strategy across major product surfaces, solve company-wide frontend challenges, and influence how teams build and ship at scale. You will partner deeply with engineering, product, design, backend, and integrations leadership to ensure ClickUp’s frontend systems remain fast, reliable, and adaptable as the business grows.This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and implementation levels, especially in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.What You’ll Do-Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments-Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular and React that support rapid product development-Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity-Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems-Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization-Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems-Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality-Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards-Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnershipQualifications-10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications-Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems-Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users-Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture-Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas-Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments-Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels-Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations-Experience with testing infrastructure and ability to define testing strategies for large scale features changes.Equal Opportunity EmployerClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.Privacy NoticeClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can find further details by viewing our Global Candidate Privacy Notice.If you are a Philippine Job Applicant, please also see our Philippine Data Privacy Notice for further details.Visa SponsorshipPlease note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time. Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time. Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.Fraud AlertClickUp Talent Acquisition will only initiate contact via an @clickup.com email or through our official careers portal on clickup.com. We will never request fees, payments, or sensitive personal information. Please disregard any offers received outside these channels and report them to [e-mail] Processing NoticeClickUp may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to help review and screen candidates' employment applications against role-related criteria. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision‐making. If you have questions or need an accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].