Lead Front End Engineer

Job Summary

Role: Lead Front End Engineer

Location: Remote, India

Experience: 8+ Years

Role overview

We are seeking a Lead Front End Engineer with strong expertise in React, JavaScript/TypeScript and Tailwind CSS to lead the implementation of a modern Client Portal web application as a scalable Single-Page Application (SPA).

The role will focus on building secure, responsive and high-performance user experiences across client, administrator and practitioner workflows. You will be responsible for translating approved UX/UI designs into production-ready interfaces, integrating with the Portal Backend API and Azure services, implementing secure authentication and authorization, and ensuring frontend quality, performance and maintainability.

The ideal candidate should combine strong hands-on frontend engineering skills with technical leadership, architectural thinking and the ability to establish frontend best practices and mentor other engineers.

Key responsibilities

1. Frontend Architecture and SPA Development

• Lead the implementation of the Client Portal as a scalable Single-Page Application using React, with Angular considered as an alternative.
• Define and maintain frontend architecture, component structures and reusable development patterns.
• Develop clean, maintainable and reusable frontend components using React and Tailwind CSS.
• Translate approved UX/UI wireframes and visual designs from Figma into production-ready interfaces.
• Establish frontend coding standards, best practices and development guidelines.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate the Portal UI with REST APIs and supporting services.

2. Client-facing Portal Development

• Build secure client-facing views including document upload, engagement dashboards and deliverables access.
• Implement secure document upload functionality with direct browser uploads to Azure Blob Storage.
• Implement upload progress indicators, status tracking and appropriate error handling.
• Develop engagement dashboards and client-facing data views.
• Integrate and embed Power BI dashboards using the Power BI JavaScript SDK.
• Ensure client users can access only authorized engagements and associated data.

3. Admin and Practitioner Interfaces

• Lead development of administrator and practitioner-facing portal experiences.
• Build engagement management interfaces and user/role assignment workflows.
• Implement provisioning request workflows.
• Develop lifecycle management controls including archival and decommissioning.
• Build audit log viewing interfaces.
• Develop practitioner workbench interfaces to support engagement-related activities.
• Ensure workflows provide clear validation, status updates and error handling.

4. Authentication and Authorization

• Implement Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID authentication using OIDC/OAuth.
• Integrate authentication flows using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL).
• Implement secure login, logout and session persistence.
• Implement token refresh and authentication-state management.
• Develop role-based route guards for client, practitioner and administrator views.
• Implement engagement-scoped access controls within the frontend.
• Ensure strict data isolation between different engagements.
• Follow frontend security best practices for authentication, authorization and sensitive information.

5. State Management

• Design and implement client-side state management for application and engagement data.
• Manage user sessions and authentication state.
• Track document upload progress and upload status.
• Manage provisioning request and workflow status.
• Develop predictable and maintainable state-management patterns.
• Ensure application state is efficiently managed to support performance and scalability.

6. Responsive Design and Cross-browser Compatibility

• Build responsive layouts optimized for desktop and tablet breakpoints.
• Translate Figma designs into accurate and accessible user interfaces.
• Ensure consistent application behavior across Chrome, Edge and Safari.
• Perform cross-browser and responsive testing.
• Identify and resolve UI compatibility, usability and layout issues.

7. Frontend Testing and Quality

• Establish and maintain frontend testing practices.
• Write unit tests for components, business logic and frontend services.
• Develop end-to-end tests covering all critical user workflows.
• Test authentication, authorization, document upload, engagement access and provisioning workflows.
• Ensure adequate regression coverage for major application functionality.
• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve frontend defects before production deployment.

8. Frontend Performance Optimization

• Lead frontend performance optimization initiatives.
• Optimize application bundle size and initial load performance.
• Implement lazy loading and code splitting where appropriate.
• Optimize images and frontend assets.
• Identify and resolve unnecessary renders and performance bottlenecks.
• Optimize API interactions and client-side state updates.
• Ensure a fast and responsive user experience across supported devices.

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