What does a Lead Frontend Engineer do? As the frontend lead you will make decisions on the overall architecture, processes, design and usability of the platform and mentor the other developers. You will work closely together with designers and other engineers to advance the development of our modern web platform and deliver exciting new experiences to our customers. By rigorously leveraging collected data, e.g. through user analytics, you will transform complex processes into insightful user experiences. The role will challenge you to work in a highly agile environment and address strategic and engineering topics.

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you...

• Define the architecture and processes used by your engineering team


• Mentor and support other team members through code reviews and continuous feedback


• Take initiative to research new technologies, read articles and news in order to understand the current state of the frontend community


• Share and document knowledge and best practices


• Partner with the design and product management team to innovate and develop new design and interaction concepts


• Develop rich, flexible frontend components to enable engineers to easily and quickly build client-side code


• Are a flexible team player, stepping into a variety of roles

Who makes a good Lead Frontend Engineer?

• 6+ years of experience building modern web applications


• Excellent knowledge of Javascript, CSS and React


• In-depth knowledge of browsers and their behavior


• Passionate about user experience and product delivery


• Experience with test frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Jest)


• Good understanding of REST and GraphQL


• Strong analytical, leadership and communication skills


• Ability to work both self-directed and collaboratively to deliver results in a fast-paced startup environment

Who doesn't? What we’re trying to do is hard. Technically difficult some of the time, but also hard because we’re asking for big changes from people who are usually very comfortable doing things the way they’ve always been done. There is a lot of frustration, and it’s easy to put a lot of work into something that doesn’t bear fruit. But we’re here to put a big dent in a gigantic industry, something we’ll all be proud of a decade from now. We’re also a startup. Priorities change all the time, something’s always on fire, and there’s twice as much work to do as hands to do it. It’s uncomfortable, new challenges surface constantly, and that means it’s up to you to manage how you spend your time in the midst of conflicting priorities. We’re well-funded, with advisors and investors who’ve built legendary companies. But we’re also deploying that capital aggressively, so you should expect uncertainty and discomfort. If the above sounds daunting, you’re a perfectly sound and reasonable person who probably won’t fit in at Leaf. If this strikes you as an exhilarating milieu, well, let’s talk.