Web Engineering Lead

Web Engineering Lead - Digital Engineering

Onsite 4 days per week Downtown Miami FL

The Web Engineering Lead is responsible for defining and driving the technical vision for web front-end development within their product area. This role owns the web layer - architecting scalable performant and accessible web experiences using Angular React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks - while also maintaining accountability for the overall engineering health of the product. The Web Engineering Lead participates in Agile ceremonies ensures engineering progress aligns with roadmaps and timelines and collaborates across all technology layers to deliver cohesive digital products.

Technical Leadership

- Define and drive the technical vision for web front-end development across the product area
- Architect scalable performant and accessible web applications and experiences
- Establish and enforce best practices for front-end performance scalability security and code quality
- Lead technical decision-making and evaluate new web technologies frameworks and tools
- Create technical design specifications and translate high-level architecture into working software

Web Development & Implementation

- Lead feature development and enhancements for web applications
- Expert proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and front-end frameworks - both Angular (Angular 2 RxJS NgRx) and React (React NextJS Redux hooks)
- Strong command of HTML CSS responsive design and web accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Implement modern front-end architectures including micro-frontends (MFE) component-driven design and design systems
- Integrate with backend services via GraphQL REST APIs and modern data-fetching patterns
- Optimize web performance (Core Web Vitals bundle optimization lazy loading caching strategies)
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab)
- Manage build tooling module bundlers and developer experience infrastructure
- Ensure cross-browser compatibility and progressive enhancement

Quality & Testing

- Ensure strong testing practices across unit integration and end-to-end test suites (Jest Cypress Playwright Karma Jasmine)
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in rendering network and runtime
- Maintain high standards for code quality reliability and maintainability

Team Leadership & Mentoring

- Mentor and guide web engineers through code reviews pairing and technical coaching
- Foster continuous improvement in engineering practices tooling and workflows
- Collaborate closely with product design and delivery teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Champion design system adoption and front-end consistency across products

Product-Level Engineering Oversight

- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning standups retrospectives backlog refinement) to ensure overall engineering progress aligns with roadmaps and timelines
- Maintain awareness of engineering health across all technology layers of the product - not just web
- Identify cross-layer risks dependencies and blockers; escalate proactively
- Know when to engage subject matter experts for other technology layers (services iOS Android AEM React Native) and facilitate collaboration to resolve cross-cutting concerns
- Ensure that web front-end integrates cleanly with APIs backend services content platforms and aligns with mobile experiences

Innovation & Continuous Learning

- Stay current with web platform evolution JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem Angular React and front-end trends
- Evaluate emerging frameworks tools and web standards
- Drive adoption of modern web technologies and development patterns

Required Skills & Experience

- 7 years of hands-on web front-end development experience
- 2 years in a lead or technical leadership role
- Expert proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
- Strong experience with both Angular (Angular 2 RxJS NgRx) and React (React NextJS Redux)
- Strong command of HTML CSS responsive design and web accessibility (WCAG)
- Experience with front-end architecture patterns (micro-frontends component-driven design systems)
- Proficiency with GraphQL and REST API integration
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab)
- Experience with testing frameworks (Jest Cypress Playwright Karma Jasmine)
- Strong understanding of web performance optimization (Core Web Vitals caching bundle optimization)
- Proficiency with Git and version control workflows (GitFlow trunk-based)
- Strong analytical debugging and problem-solving skills
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure Google Cloud)
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with product design and delivery teams
- Strong end-to-end accountability and a track record of taking delivery fully to completion
- Clear ownership mindset - not someone who leaves delivery responsibility with another organization
- Solid experience working with offshore teams and driving work through closure across distributed teams
- Scope control and management
- Experience building leading or scaling front-end development teams
- Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams or product lines

Desired Skills

- Experience with Docker containerization and basic Kubernetes concepts for front-end deployment
- Experience with server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG)
- Familiarity with AEM or other content management platforms as a content source
- Experience with e-commerce or guest-facing web applications at scale
- Knowledge of mobile web optimization and progressive web app (PWA) patterns
- Understanding of SEO best practices and analytics integration
- Experience with for web component development
- Experience with (Node) for server-side development