Senior React Frontend Architect - Onsite Cape Town

Network Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Recruitment in Cape Town CBD is seeking a Lead Frontend Architect to drive architecture decisions and establish best practices across patterns, tooling, and code quality. You will deliver complex, scalable UI features and collaborate on API design while upholding high testing standards and observability.

You will lead incident triage and performance optimisations, focusing on Core Web Vitals, accessibility and shared design systems to ensure consistency across experiences.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years frontend experience.
• Advanced React experience.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, Next.js.
• Cloud exposure.
• Microservices/Concurrency Exp.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontend architecture decisions and champion best practices.
• Design and deliver complex, scalable UI features by breaking down problems into maintainable components.
• Architect reliable client/server state management, caching and real-time update patterns, and collaborate on API design.
• Set testing standards, strengthen CI/CD, and improve observability and debugging.
• Optimize rendering performance, bundle size and Core Web Vitals while ensuring accessibility.
• Build scalable UI systems, evolve design systems, and ensure consistency across components and flows.
• Lead incident triage, deep debugging and root-cause analysis to improve reliability.

Skills

Frontend architecture

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

Next.js

CI/CD

Testing

Performance optimization

Accessibility

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

Network Recruitment in Cape Town CBD is seeking a Lead Frontend Architect to drive architecture decisions and establish best practices across patterns, tooling, and code quality. You will deliver complex, scalable UI features and collaborate on API design while upholding high testing standards and observability.

You will lead incident triage and performance optimisations, focusing on Core Web Vitals, accessibility and shared design systems to ensure consistency across experiences.