Principal Frontend
Job Description
Principal – Frontend
Location: India, Remote
Experience: 8+Years
Algoworks
About the company
Algoworks is an award-winning artificial intelligence, engineering services and experience transformation firm with offices across the United States, Europe, South America and India. We bring together a global team of engineers, architects, designers, researchers and operators united by rigor, accountability and a commitment to delivering measurable results.
For over 20 years, Algoworks has partnered with Fortune 500 organizations across the Americas, Europe and Asia to define, build and run technology that drives meaningful business outcomes. Our work combines human-centered design, engineering excellence and AI-powered capabilities to solve complex challenges with clarity and precision. Innovation, particularly in the responsible application of AI, is embedded in how teams approach problem-solving and continuous improvement.
At Algoworks, growth is continuous and closely tied to impact. Teams collaborate across geographies and disciplines, strengthening outcomes through shared insight and collective expertise. The culture values transparency, open dialogue and an environment where every voice is heard and contribution is recognized.
Through collaboration, accountability and a focus on results, Algoworks operates at the intersection of technology and people, building not only advanced systems but strong global teams that elevate performance and create lasting impact.
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Role overview
We are seeking a Frontend Tech Lead to own front-end architecture and lead the build of a brand-new, accessible design system on Angular 17+ with standalone components.
The candidate will set front-end standards, lead a pod of Angular engineers and stay hands-on - driving performance, accessibility and a scalable, metadata-driven UI for a multi-tenant SaaS product.
Key responsibilities:
1.Front-end architecture
- Own Angular 17+ architecture: standalone components, NgRx (signals) and Formly-based forms.
- Establish and govern the shared, accessible design system and theming model.
- Define API integration contracts with the backend leads behind Azure API Management.
2.Quality, performance and accessibility
- Set WCAG accessibility standards with axe checks in Playwright E2E suites.
- Drive front-end performance budgets, lazy loading and bundle optimization.
3.Team and delivery
- Lead, mentor and unblock a front-end engineering pod.
- Partner with UX leadership on design tokens, patterns and component libraries.
- Embed front-end pipelines into Azure DevOps CI/CD.
Required technical skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.
- 8+ years of front-end engineering with deep Angular and TypeScript expertise.
- Proven design-system creation and ownership.
- Strong NgRx / signals state-management experience.
- Demonstrated accessibility (WCAG) and performance leadership.
- Hands-on leadership: reviews, mentoring and standards-setting.
Must have skills:
- Expert Angular + TypeScript with modern architecture patterns.
- Proven design-system and accessibility leadership.
- Strong performance and CI/CD experience.
- Demonstrated leadership of a front-end team.
Good to have skills:
- Experience with Angular standalone components and signals at scale.
- Formly or metadata-driven form expertise.
- Multi-tenant theming and feature-flag experience.
- Prior greenfield front-end leadership.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools in the Software Development Lifecycle; Claude and GitHub Copilot preferred.
Desired attributes:
- Strong ownership mindset and engineering discipline.
- High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective communicator who collaborates well across distributed, cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable working in a greenfield environment with evolving standards and a test-first culture.
- Passion for continuous improvement, clean code and engineering excellence.
Interview process
2 rounds of discussion
