Front end Architect
TLDR
Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance, and user-friendly web applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.
Role description: This role is with one of our prominent portfolio companies.
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Frontend Software Architect to lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance, and user-friendly web applications. This role requires a deep understanding of frontend technologies, architectural best practices, and the ability to drive technical direction in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and evolve the frontend system — defining modular structure, state management patterns, rendering strategies, and extensibility models
- Drive technical strategy through well-written RFCs, design discussions, and architectural reviews
- Ensure high performance across complex workflows, large documents, long-running sessions, and memory-intensive operations
- Establish best-in-class engineering standards across testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and release quality
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to navigate technical tradeoffs and scalability decisions
- Mentor engineers, influence frontend best practices, and elevate overall code quality and architectural thinking
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale web applications, with 3–5+ years in a frontend architectural leadership capacity
- Strong expertise in React and TypeScript, particularly for building complex and performance-sensitive interfaces
- Experience developing advanced UI systems such as design editors, canvas-based applications, multi-pane interfaces, timeline-driven tools, or large data-heavy surfaces
- Deep understanding of state management architecture (Redux, Zustand, Recoil, Jotai, or similar patterns)
- Demonstrated experience optimizing performance in production environments
- Experience collaborating on API contracts and navigating distributed systems tradeoffs
- Proven ownership of frontend architecture including tooling, testing frameworks, build systems, monitoring, and deployment processes
Elevation Capital partners with innovative startups in the technology sector, providing resources and expertise to help them grow and achieve their strategic objectives. We focus on financial operations and planning, ensuring our portfolio companies are set up for success in a competitive market.