This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 8000000 - Rs 12000000 (ie INR 80 - 120 LPA)

Min Experience: 8+ years

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced Frontend Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale, modern web applications. This role is ideal for someone who has spent 10+ years building production-grade web applications, including 2–4 years of owning frontend architecture, where you were responsible for defining architectural direction rather than simply contributing as a senior individual contributor.

As a Frontend Architect, you will establish technical standards, design scalable frontend systems, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver performant, maintainable, and user-centric applications. You will influence long-term engineering strategy while mentoring developers and driving engineering excellence across multiple products.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the frontend architecture for complex web platforms and enterprise-scale applications.
• Design modular, reusable, and scalable frontend systems with clearly defined module boundaries and ownership.
• Establish architectural guidelines, coding standards, design patterns, and best practices across frontend teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, backend architects, designers, and engineering leaders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive architectural decisions involving state management, routing, performance optimization, rendering strategies, and component libraries.
• Lead initiatives around frontend observability, testing, accessibility, security, and maintainability.
• Review technical designs, conduct architecture reviews, and provide mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.
• Evaluate emerging frontend technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.
• Ensure applications deliver exceptional user experience across browsers and devices while maintaining high performance.
• Partner with DevOps and platform engineering teams to improve deployment pipelines, monitoring, and frontend infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

• 8–20 years of professional software engineering experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience building production web applications.
• 2–4 years of demonstrated ownership of frontend architecture, including designing application structure, defining module boundaries, managing shared libraries, and driving architectural decisions across engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in modern JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Extensive experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular, with deep expertise in at least one.
• Strong understanding of component-driven architecture, design systems, micro-frontends, and scalable frontend engineering practices.
• Experience designing maintainable state management solutions and data flow architectures.
• Solid understanding of frontend performance optimization, caching strategies, lazy loading, code splitting, and bundle optimization.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and modern development workflows.
• Excellent communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

Candidates with experience in collaborative editing technologies and distributed application architecture will have a strong advantage, including:

• Real-time collaboration systems.
• Yjs and CRDT-based collaborative applications.
• Automerge for distributed state synchronization.
• Operational Transforms (OT) and collaborative document editing.
• Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).
• WebSockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE), or WebRTC.
• Offline-first application architecture and synchronization strategies.
• Event-driven frontend architectures and distributed systems concepts.

Preferred Profile

• Proven ability to lead frontend architecture across multiple teams and products.
• Strong architectural thinking with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and developer experience.
• Experience balancing technical excellence with business priorities.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of engineering best practices.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs and make sound architectural decisions for long-term product success.