Senior Frontend Tech Lead - Angular & Platform Systems

Left Field Labs; Culver City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Left Field Labs seeks a Freelance Frontend Tech Lead to drive a large-scale platform development effort for a major tech client in Culver City, CA. You will lead and code on frontend UI components in Angular, while guiding enterprise-grade systems under aggressive timelines.

You will partner with client engineering leadership, set up DevOps pipelines, ramp on internal tools, and collaborate with design teams to unblock progress. Strong backend familiarity with Java is a plus.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of hands-on experience building structured, maintainable web applications using Angular.
• Proven people leadership and team management to deliver high-quality projects under tight deadlines.
• Experience setting up build pipelines, CI/CD, content ingestion, or data migration workflows.
• Comfortable navigating complex, proprietary internal ecosystems and developer documentation platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience managing direct client interactions and technical project leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and work hands-on alongside development teams to build, recreate, and optimize frontend UI components using Angular.
• Partner with client engineering leadership to set up, manage, and optimize continuous development and DevOps pipeline flows.
• Ramp up quickly on proprietary internal tools, workflows, and access protocols.
• Collaborate with design teams to unblock tasks as assets are finalized.
• Provide technical direction with hands-on experience building maintainable web apps using Angular.
• Experience with Java/Kotlin backend services or platform logic.
• Set up build pipelines, CI/CD, content ingestion, or data migration workflows.
• Navigate complex internal ecosystems and developer documentation platforms.

Skills

Angular

Leadership

CI/CD pipelines

UI development

Client communications

Java backend

Tools

CI/CD tooling

DevOps pipelines

Job description

Left Field Labs seeks a Freelance Frontend Tech Lead to drive a large-scale platform development effort for a major tech client in Culver City, CA. You will lead and code on frontend UI components in Angular, while guiding enterprise-grade systems under aggressive timelines.

You will partner with client engineering leadership, set up DevOps pipelines, ramp on internal tools, and collaborate with design teams to unblock progress. Strong backend familiarity with Java is a plus.