Front-End Technical Lead

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own the technical vision, architecture, engineering standards, delivery quality, and operational stability of the online ordering application across web, iOS, and Android.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for the shared Angular, Ionic, Capacitor, and TypeScript codebase.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for RxJS, NgRx, HTML5, SCSS, npm, Bootstrap, Axios, responsive design, reusable components, routing, service patterns, and environment configuration.
• Design, troubleshoot, and maintain native wrappers and plugins supporting analytics, push notifications, geolocation, permissions, payments, deep linking, authentication, and other platform-specific capabilities.
• Partner with the Web Front-End Lead supporting React 18, Gatsby, TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo Client, SASS, React Testing Library, and Prismic CMS.
• Collaborate with the Back-End Technical Lead on Node/Express services, GraphQL APIs, REST APIs, AWS AppSync, and third-party integrations.
• Ensure robust and secure integration with Olo, Paytronix, Radar, FreedomPay, Ping Identity, Firebase, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Quantum Metric, and other approved enterprise platforms.
• Drive performance optimization, accessibility, security, observability, dependency upgrades, scalability, and technical-debt remediation across front-end channels.
• Define and maintain coding standards, reusable component patterns, pull-request controls, unit-test expectations, quality gates, and technical documentation.

Delivery & Engineering Excellence

• Lead end-to-end front-end delivery for new capabilities, enhancements, defect remediation, and technical-debt initiatives across web and mobile ordering journeys.
• Translate business requirements, UX designs, hero flows, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements into technical designs, implementation tasks, estimates, and release plans.
• Contribute actively to backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, design reviews, demonstrations, and release planning.
• Lead code reviews, merge approvals, dependency management, front-end design decisions, documentation, and engineering governance.
• Define the testing strategy for Jest unit tests, Angular component and service testing, integration testing, UI testing, simulators, physical devices, responsive layouts, native plugins, and regression automation.
• Ensure validation of critical customer capabilities, including Apple Pay, push notifications, authentication redirects, geolocation and geofencing, deep links, permissions, analytics events, and QA mobile builds.
• Partner with QA and Automation Engineers to embed front-end tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve agreed quality, automation, and coverage measures.
• Own remediation of accessibility findings and ensure new and modified components follow applicable WCAG and ADA requirements.
• Own technical readiness and execution of iOS and Android releases, including versioning, signing, certificates, provisioning profiles, build configuration, release notes, store compliance, and rollout support.
• Support QA application distribution through Firebase App Distribution and production publishing through Apple App Store Connect and Google Play Console.
• Maintain iOS, Android, and web build pipelines in Azure DevOps using YAML, approved scripts, CLI tooling, and appropriate quality and release controls.
• Provide technical leadership during deployments, hypercare, production monitoring, defect triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Use Quantum Metric, Firebase Analytics, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, application logs, and approved dashboards to investigate customer-impacting issues, validate analytics events, and identify anomalies.
• Partner with DevOps to improve build automation, deployment reliability, observability, alerting, front-end performance, and platform availability.
• Drive continuous improvement against agreed delivery, productivity, quality, code coverage, automation, stability, and incident-reduction objectives.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and mentor a distributed team of front-end leads and developers across onshore and offshore locations.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, and knowledge sharing to strengthen engineering practices and platform understanding.
• Create clear ownership across design, development, review, testing, release, technical documentation, and operational support activities.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Digital Leads, UX/Design, Back-End Engineering, QA, Automation, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders.
• Promote constructive technical decision-making, early risk identification, dependency management, and transparent escalation.
• Align the front-end team with Agile ceremonies, delivery commitments, release governance, and continuous-improvement practices.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 12 years of front-end engineering experience, including technical leadership of enterprise web or mobile applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Angular, Ionic, Capacitor, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining a shared codebase deployed across web, iOS, and Android.
• Working knowledge of Swift, Xcode, Kotlin or Java, Android Studio, and Gradle.
• Strong knowledge of responsive web design, mobile UX patterns, component architecture, state management, API integration, performance optimization, and accessibility.
• Experience with GraphQL, REST APIs, authentication flows, third-party SDKs, and complex transactional customer journeys.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, pull requests, Firebase App Distribution, Apple App Store Connect, and Google Play Console.
• Strong communication, technical documentation, stakeholder-management, mentoring, and distributed-team leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in QSR, restaurant ordering, digital commerce, payments, loyalty, geolocation, or other high-volume customer-facing applications.
• Experience with Olo, Paytronix, Radar, FreedomPay, Ping Identity, Firebase, Quantum Metric, Google Analytics, or Google Tag Manager.
• Working knowledge of React 18, Gatsby, Apollo Client, GraphQL, React Testing Library, SASS, and Prismic CMS.
• Awareness of AWS-hosted application patterns, including Lambda, AppSync, ECS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and Cloudflare integrations.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models with geographically distributed engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and UX teams.