Frontend Engineering Lead (Next.js, React, TypeScript)

TL;DR

Frontend Engineering Lead (Next.js, React, TypeScript): Lead the architecture and performance evolution of a large Next.js (App Router) application with an accent on rendering strategy (SSR/SSG/ISR/RSC), Core Web Vitals, and frontend observability feedback loops. Focus on mentoring a team of 4–6 engineers, driving delivery and technical trade-offs, and shaping CDN/caching and CI/CD practices for production-grade customer-facing pages.

Company

hirify.global builds a SaaS platform for iGaming.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the architecture of a large Next.js (App Router) application, including rendering strategy, code-splitting, and bundle health.
• Drive end-to-end web performance work using Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), edge caching, and RUM-based measurement.
• Own frontend observability with tracing and RUM, and turn production feedback into engineering decisions.
• Shape CDN and caching strategy with platform/infra, including cache keys, Vary, surrogate keys, and edge logic.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4–6 frontend engineers, including 1:1s, growth plans, and performance feedback.
• Improve team delivery and engineering practices: planning, prioritization, scoping, branching strategy, CI/CD, definition of done, and release process.

Requirements

• 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, including 2+ years leading a team.
• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript, with production experience in Next.js (ideally App Router / RSC).
• Proven track record in web performance optimization and understanding how rendering strategy impacts it.
• Strong understanding of how browser, CDN, and caching layers interact in production.
• Demonstrated people leadership: growing engineers and running delivery with realistic commitments and trade-off decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-traffic, multi-brand or multi-tenant platforms.
• Hands-on observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, SigNoz or similar) and RUM.
• Familiarity with Fastly (or comparable CDNs) at the VCL/edge-logic level.
• SEO experience for large customer-facing sites (rendering, crawlability, hreflang, canonical strategy).

Culture & Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly.
• Flexible start to the workday.
• Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist.
• Regular internal/external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events.
• Access to an internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities.
• Ongoing training and continuous professional development support.

Hiring process

• Interviews focused on frontend architecture, performance, observability, and leadership/delivery experience.
• Discussion of technical trade-offs and how you would improve team engineering practices.