Frontend Architect (вакансія неактивна)

Transcenda is a global provider of design and engineering services. We put people first and strive to be agents of change by building a better future through technology. We are dedicated to empowering organizations to rapidly scale, digitally transform, and bring new products to market.

Recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s greatest workplaces of 2025, Transcenda is home to 200+ engineers, designers, analysts, and advisors solving complex business challenges through technology. By approaching our work through a variety of cultures and perspectives, we take calculated risks to design and develop innovative solutions that will have a positive impact tomorrow.

Interesting Facts:

• Over 200 team members
• Fully remote — we let people work where they work best.
• We work with clients who value our opinion and thought leadership, and where we can make a meaningful contribution to architectural decisions, engineering decisions, and product decisions.
• We have a strong social agenda and promote diversity and inclusion, and participate in a variety of charity initiatives throughout the year.
• We have fun team-building activities.
• Since we are rapidly growing, the ability to grow and advance your career is available and at a fairly quick rate.

Key responsibilities

Frontend Architecture & Engineering

• Design and evolve a modern React-based architecture for a large multi-tenant SaaS platform
• Establish principles for modular, reusable, accessible UI components
• Architect and maintain internal component libraries and design systems
• Drive performance improvements: bundle size, render strategy, caching, SSR/CSR decisions
• Define best practices and architecture guidelines for all frontend teams

Cloud-Native & Platform Integration

• Build UI systems optimized for distributed cloud environments
• Collaborate with DevOps to integrate CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and monitoring
• Work closely with backend teams to ensure clean contracts and scalable front-to-back flows
• Apply 12-Factor principles when designing frontends for cloud-native systems

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to frontend engineers across squads
• Lead architectural reviews and guide teams through high-impact technical decisions
• Work with Product & UX to ensure cohesive user experience patterns across the platform
• Communicate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Governance, Security & Quality

• Ensure adherence to WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards
• Establish an automated testing strategy and quality gates
• Collaborate with Security teams to ensure secure-by-design frontends aligned with SaaS compliance (OWASP, SSO, GDPR, audit logging)
• Drive consistency through documentation, RFCs, and architectural blueprints

Must haves

• Strong experience with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience in building web applications with the React.js framework
• Strong background in frontend architecture for large-scale SaaS platforms using micro-frontends (SPA, Module Federation, Design System)
• Deep understanding of UI performance optimization: lazy loading, code splitting, bundle strategy
• Strong knowledge of state management (MobX, Zustand, Redux Toolkit, React Query)
• Experience with REST, GraphQL, and real-time data (WebSockets/SSE)
• Strong understanding of frontend testing strategies (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress)

Nice to have

• Experience designing component libraries, design systems, and theming strategies
• Accessibility knowledge (WCAG 2.1, ARIA, semantic HTML)
• Building Internationalization (i18n/l10n) at scale
• Experience working with design tokens, Storybook, Radix/Headless UI
• Hands-on experience with monorepo tooling (Nx, Turborepo)
• CI/CD for frontend applications, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud deployments
• Experience with observability tools (Sentry, Datadog, LogRocket)
• Building for multi-tenant SaaS environments