One of America's largest retailers is seeking a Senior Director of Front-End Engineering to join their growing company!
We're seeking a visionary Senior Director of Front-End Engineering to lead a growing team in building high-performance, scalable, and user-friendly front-end systems. You'll drive the strategic direction of front-end engineering across multiple products and platforms, collaborating with design, product, marketing, and engineering teams to align our technology stack with long-term company objectives.The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in front-end development with exceptional leadership skills and a passion for delivering outstanding user experiences.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership & Strategy
Mentor and lead front-end engineers, fostering professional growth and high performance
Develop and implement a front-end engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with company goals
Drive innovation in front-end technologies, frameworks, and tools
Cultivate a culture of collaboration, accountability, and excellence
Technical Leadership
Oversee architecture, design, and implementation of front-end systems for multiple products
Ensure adherence to performance, scalability, accessibility, and security best practices
Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive, polished user experiences
Drive adoption of front-end frameworks (React, Next.JS, TypeScript), build tools, and deployment processes
Guide code reviews, pull requests, and quality control processes
Enforce automated testing and code quality standards
Establish KPIs for engineering productivity, quality, and impact
Assist with resource planning and delivery
Collaboration & Communication
Work closely with back-end engineers for seamless system integration
Partner with product managers to translate user needs into technical requirements
Effectively communicate progress, challenges, and technical decisions to all stakeholders
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred)
Experience
10+ years in front-end development, delivering complex, high-quality software
5+ years leading and growing engineering teams
Expertise in modern front-end frameworks, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and front-end tooling
Experience with headless ecommerce platforms and content management systems
Familiarity with back-end technologies and APIs
Proven ability to drive technical decisions for large-scale applications
Experience in cloud-based, microservices architecture environments
Proficiency with TypeScript or similar typed JavaScript supersets
Track record of scaling front-end teams in fast-paced environments
Skills
Strong leadership and team-building abilities
Deep understanding of user-experience principles
Excellent collaboration skills with product and design teams
Impact Your Future
Matching Candidates and Companies
Northern Impact is dedicated to connecting innovative professionals
in engineering, architecture, retail, marketing/sales, information technology, legal, HR, finance & accounting with growing and like-minded companies.
Organizational Values
Team Collaboration – We treat each candidate and employer as a member of the team. As with any successful team, timely and effective collaboration is paramount. We are dedicated leaders of the recruitment process, ensuring our candidates and employers succeed.
Communication – We ensure candidates and companies are given real-time feedback on the status of the recruitment process to ensure all parties are satisfied.
Culture – Corporate culture and fit are critical to the long-term success of being any hire hired. We are
dedicated to evaluating company culture and validating a candidate’s potential fit in all recruitment's.
Results Orientated – Our goal is to find the right candidate for all of our clients – We succeed
when candidates and clients realize a long-term employment.
Growth – To help facilitate the companies’ growth and revenue with our skilled Professionals.
Impact Your Success
By submitting your resume to us, we’ll keep you up-dated on current opportunities in the job market place. Many of our placed candidates were never actively looking, but made a change because Northern Impact presented a better opportunity to get them to the next level in their career. Your resume is kept confidential and only presented with your permission. We screen companies for you and strive to match your skill, talent and passion to ensure the right cultural and long lasting fit.
Submit Resume to info@northernimpacts.com
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