Lead Front-End Engineer

About Bold Orange:

Bold Orange is a customer experience company that builds connections between people and brands to drive meaningful growth through human-centered digital transformation. We believe authentic human connections are the single most important driver of business and societal progress. Our culture is one of curiosity, collaboration, proactivity and always bringing the outside perspective to our customers.

Position Summary:

We're seeking a visionary Lead Front-End Engineer to join our team at Bold Orange. In this strategic role, you'll define technical vision and architecture standards across multiple projects, lead the design of cross-project technical platforms, and provide technical oversight for complex client engagements. You'll evaluate new frameworks and approaches for organizational adoption while establishing best practices that ensure technical excellence.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional technical leader with deep expertise across the front-end landscape and a proven track record of designing enterprise-scale application architectures. You'll guide multiple project teams, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and drive innovation that creates meaningful business impact.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define technical vision and architecture standards across multiple projects
• Lead design of cross-project technical platforms and systems
• Evaluate new frameworks and approaches for organizational adoption
• Provide technical oversight across multiple complex client projects
• Develop technical roadmaps for practice areas or departments
• Establish security best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance processes
• Champion and orchestrate adoption of modern development approaches (JAMstack, serverless, etc.)
• Lead technical discovery efforts and provide expert consultation to clients
• Guide multiple project teams on technical implementation
• Design enterprise-scale application architectures
• Establish patterns for headless implementations and multi-platform solutions
• Create technical standards that scale across multiple projects
• Evaluate and recommend architectural approaches for complex business needs
• Lead adoption of innovative middleware approaches
• Lead on-call programs and serve as final escalation point for major incidents
• Establish reliability standards and frameworks across multiple applications
  
  
  

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• 8-12 years of progressive front-end development experience
• Experience designing cutting-edge front-end architectures
• Proven ability to evaluate and implement emerging web technologies with business impact
• Experience creating micro-frontend approaches for enterprise applications
• Established track record of designing patterns that scale across multiple teams and projects
• Ability to define front-end technology strategy aligned with business goals
• Experience architecting robust enterprise-level middle-tier solutions
• Knowledge of designing API gateways and service meshes for complex systems
• Ability to create content strategies that scale across multiple platforms
• Experience establishing standards for API security, performance, and reliability
• Strong leadership skills with experience guiding technical teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with multiple JavaScript frameworks and their ecosystems
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience with serverless computing and cloud platform services
• Track record of leading enterprise-level front-end implementations
• Deep understanding of performance optimization at scale
• Experience with content delivery networks and global site delivery
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD implementation
• Experience leading technical discovery and scoping complex projects
• Understanding of emerging web technologies and implementation patterns
• Experience mentoring Senior Engineers and developing technical leadership
• Experience with design systems and component libraries at scale
• Implementation experience with WordPress (WPEngine, Kinsta), Optimizely, Sitecore, AEM, and custom web development
  
  
  

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

As a Lead Front-End Engineer at Bold Orange, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the organization:

• Design (UX/UI): Architect design systems at scale, establish technical design principles across projects
• Project Management: Define delivery methodologies for complex projects, establish estimation frameworks
• SEO: Create SEO engineering strategies, establish cross-framework standards and best practices
• Strategy: Develop technical strategies for practice areas, align technology choices to business objectives
• Technical Product Management: Guide product roadmaps for technical platforms, define cross-product architecture
• Media: Design scalable tracking architectures, establish standards for media/marketing technology
• New Business: Lead technical discovery for significant opportunities, architect proposed solutions
• Analytics: Design scalable analytics frameworks, establish best practices for data collection across projects
• Data Engineering: Design robust data exchange architectures between front-end and back-end systems, establish caching strategies
• Software Engineering: Lead cross-discipline technical initiatives, establish patterns for frontend-backend integration
  
  
  

Performance Expectations:

• Technical Leadership: Designs enterprise-scale application architectures and establishes patterns for implementation
• Quality Standards: Establishes development standards and coding guidelines that reduce critical defect rates by 30%+ across teams
• Delivery Effectiveness: Sets realistic timeframes for large initiatives with 95%+ release date accuracy for major deliverables
• Innovation Impact: Leads innovations that improve team productivity by 15%+ or create new capabilities
• Organizational Influence: Shapes technical direction for major initiatives affecting multiple departments
• Technical Strategy: Makes strategic technical decisions that drive organizational efficiency and competitive advantage
• Architecture & Engineering: Hands-on architecture and engineering implementation
  
  
  

Who We Are:

Our tone is professionally sassy. We embrace meat raffles, hot seats, and the occasional Jell-O shot. We like staff meetings that are informative, educational, and at times, damn funny. We believe in no hierarchy, no bullshit, and no politics. Just honest, hard work, and great fun.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, familial status, ancestry, status as a veteran, status with regard to public assistance and any other characteristic protected by law. Bold Orange does not and will not discriminate against employees, prospective employees, clients, or vendors.