Clickup
Principal Frontend Engineer
United States, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Principal Frontend Engineer will drive long-term technical vision and architectural strategy for frontend engineering. This role involves leading the design of scalable systems in Angular and React and partnering with cross-functional leadership.
What you will do
- Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments
- Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular and React
- Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity
- Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture
- Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact initiatives and unblock teams
- Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions supporting speed and long-term product quality
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards
- Influence roadmap and organizational decisions
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of frontend engineering experience
- Deep expertise in large-scale web applications
- Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
- Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users
- Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture
- Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas
- Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills
- Strong mentoring background
- Experience with testing infrastructure and ability to define testing strategies for large scale features changes
About the company
ClickUp is an AI-native company building a converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search.