Principal Frontend Engineer

At ClickUp collaboration and partnership are at the heart of everything we do. As a Principal Frontend Engineer youll drive the technical vision design patterns and scalability of our frontend systems while partnering closely with backend and integrations teams to deliver seamless performant features. Youll not only write code but shape the architecture that empowers our engineers to move fast and build with confidence.

Youll set the bar for engineering excellence by influencing coding standards driving architectural decisions and ensuring front-end systems are designed for performance maintainability and long-term growth. Youll collaborate with QA partners to ensure testability and quality are built into every solution while mentoring engineers across the organization to raise our technical craft.

Were scaling rapidly so were looking for someone who thrives in high-growth environments balances pragmatism with architectural rigor and models our values of ownership speed and excellence.

The Role:

• Architect and evolve scalable high-performing front-end systems in Angular 15 that power the ClickUp platform.

• Define standards patterns and best practices for reusable components state management and system performance.

• Partner with product design and engineering leaders to shape technical direction and ensure architecture aligns with business needs.

• Lead initiatives to identify and resolve bottlenecks in performance scalability and developer experience.

• Champion testability and quality by influencing strategies for unit integration and end-to-end testing.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship guiding engineers on best practices architectural trade-offs and new front-end technologies.

• Drive continuous improvement in tooling build pipelines and developer productivity.

• Collaborate across teams (backend integrations QA infrastructure) to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.

Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks (Angular 15 required).

• Deep expertise in state management (NgRx/Redux) RxJS and scalable front-end application design.

• Strong understanding of HTML CSS accessibility cross-browser compatibility and responsive design.

• Proven experience making architectural decisions that balance scalability performance and delivery speed.

• Track record of mentoring engineers influencing cross-team technical strategy and elevating engineering standards.

• Excellent communication skills able to influence stakeholders across engineering design and product.

• Self-starter with an operational mindset who thrives in fast-paced high-growth environments

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