Frontend Team Lead
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Role in brief
Talentgrator seeks a Frontend Team Lead to architect and optimize a large Next.js application, focusing on web performance and observability. This role involves leading a team of 4-6 engineers, driving technical standards, and collaborating across departments. Ideal for experienced React/TypeScript leads with a strong background in web performance and team management.
About the role
This role at Talentgrator is split evenly between engineering and leadership responsibilities. On the engineering side, the Frontend Team Lead will be crucial in designing and evolving the architecture of a significant Next.js application, specifically focusing on rendering strategies, code-splitting, and maintaining bundle health. A key aspect of this work involves end-to-end web performance optimization, including Core Web Vitals, edge caching, and real user monitoring (RUM) measurements, ensuring a high-quality user experience.
The leadership component entails leading, mentoring, and developing a team of 4-6 frontend engineers. This includes conducting 1:1s, creating growth plans, and providing performance feedback. The Team Lead will also be responsible for managing the team's delivery process, which involves planning, prioritization, scoping, and committing to realistic timelines. Collaboration with product, design, backend, and DevOps teams is essential for roadmap alignment and technical decision-making.
Success in this position means setting high engineering standards through code reviews and complex task ownership, while also owning frontend observability through tracing and RUM. The role requires shaping CDN and caching strategies in conjunction with platform and infrastructure teams. Additionally, the Team Lead will continuously improve team processes, including branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and release procedures, to enhance overall team efficiency and output.
Skills that matter here
- TypeScript: Required for developing the application, ensuring type safety and maintainability.
- React: Essential for building the user interface of the large Next.js application.
- Next.js: Core to the role, involving architectural design and optimization of a large application, especially with App Router and React Server Components.
- Kubernetes: Familiarity with Kubernetes-based deployments is needed for understanding the platform context.
- Redis: Understanding of Redis is relevant for backend-adjacent context and caching strategies.
- OpenTelemetry: Used for implementing frontend observability, including tracing and RUM.
Who this role suits
- You have a proven history of leading engineering teams and fostering individual growth.
- You are deeply invested in web performance optimization and understand its impact on user experience.
- You thrive in environments where you balance hands-on technical architecture with team leadership.
- You are adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive project delivery and technical decisions.
From the employer
Engineering (≈50%)
- Design and evolve the architecture of a large Next.js (App Router) application: rendering strategy (SSR / SSG / ISR / RSC), code-splitting, and bundle health.
- Drive web performance work end to end - Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), edge caching, and RUM-based measurement.
- Set the engineering standard through code review, pairing, and picking up the most complex or ambiguous tasks.
- Own frontend observability: tracing, RUM, and the feedback loop from production back into engineering decisions.
- Shape the CDN and caching strategy together with platform/infra (cache keys, Vary, surrogate keys, edge logic).
Leadership (≈50%)
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4-6 frontend engineers (1:1s, growth plans, performance feedback).
- Own delivery for the team: planning, prioritization, scoping, and realistic commitments.
- Partner with product, design, backend, and DevOps on roadmap and technical trade-offs.
- Improve how the team works: branching strategy, CI/CD, definition of done, release process.
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, with 2+ years leading a team.
- Deep expertise in React and TypeScript; production experience with Next.js (ideally App Router / RSC).
- Track record in web performance optimization and understanding of how rendering strategy affects it.
- Solid grasp of how the browser, CDN, and caching layers interact in production.
- Proven people-leadership: grown engineers, run a delivery process, handled trade-offs under real constraints.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-traffic, multi-brand or multi-tenant platforms.
- Hands-on observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, SigNoz, or similar) and RUM.
- Familiarity with Fastly or comparable CDNs at the VCL / edge-logic level.
- SEO experience for large customer-facing sites (rendering, crawlability, hreflang, canonical strategy).
- 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
- Flexible start to the workday
- Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
- Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
- Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
- Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This is a fully remote position.
What is the required seniority level for this position?
This is a lead-level role, requiring 7+ years of frontend engineering experience with at least 2 years in a team leadership capacity.
What are the core technical skills required for this role?
Deep expertise in React and TypeScript is required, along with production experience in Next.js, particularly with App Router and React Server Components.
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