Frontend Tech Lead, AirDNA

• We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t check every box. Passion, potential, and perspective matter here
• Experienced: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 5 years of recent experience in React and TypeScript
• Frontend expert: You’ve scaled and optimized large-scale SPAs, understand rendering/performance tradeoffs, and care deeply about accessibility and design fidelity
• Full-stack capable: You’re comfortable contributing to backend systems (Python/Django/FastAPI, AWS, data pipelines) when the team needs it
• Technical leader: You’ve led technical discussions, influenced architecture decisions, and aligned teams toward common engineering standards
• Mentor: You enjoy leveling up others, giving thoughtful feedback, and guiding careers
• Collaborator: You thrive in cross-functional environments and can translate business goals into technical strategy
• Forward-thinking: You stay current on frontend trends, evaluate emerging tools, and bring pragmatic innovation to the team

Desirable

• AirDNA is looking for a Frontend Tech Lead to help shape the future of our product experience and technical direction
• While this role is full-stack, you will be the technical driver for our frontend guild, pushing forward our React/TypeScript architecture, design systems, and developer experience
• You’ll partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to deliver beautiful, performant, and scalable customer-facing applications
• As a Tech Lead, you’ll guide technical decisions across squads, mentor engineers, and help set the long-term direction of our frontend practice
• Lead frontend technical strategy: Define best practices, champion modern frontend architecture, and drive adoption of component libraries, state management patterns, and performance optimizations
• Build customer-facing features: Work as a hands-on engineer in your squad, implementing features with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and associated libraries
• Shape the frontend guild: Facilitate guild discussions, align engineers across squads, and promote knowledge-sharing and consistency in our frontend stack
• Mentor and grow engineers: Coach junior and mid-level developers, review code, and help engineers build strong frontend skills
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and Backend Engineers to deliver features that delight customers
• Contribute full-stack when needed: While you’re frontend-leaning, you’ll occasionally dive into backend services (Python, AWS, APIs, Kubernetes) to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Drive engineering excellence: Influence tooling, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring strategies that improve developer velocity and reliability
• Represent engineering: Serve as a technical leader in planning sessions, roadmap discussions, and cross-team initiatives