Lead Frontend Engineer - Engine
Gen Digital6 months ago
Base Salary
$218k - $239k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, test strategy, and production-readiness practices.
- Design and build composable, resilient, frontend-leaning full-stack systems that can evolve with product requirements.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners to clarify tradeoffs and deliver reliable solutions.
- Improve architectural, operational, performance, maintainability, and code-quality standards.
- Apply functional programming principles and immutability to simplify systems and reduce side effects.
- Use AI assistants and agents for prototyping, scaffolding, refactoring, and exploration, then rigorously validate the results.
- Build and maintain unit, integration/contract, component/UI, and end-to-end automated test coverage.
- Provide technical leadership through mentorship, delegation, high-quality code reviews, and technical direction.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience building production web applications and 2+ years of experience as a Principal Engineer.
- Expert-level TypeScript proficiency and strong experience with React, server-side rendered Next.js or a similar technology, and component-driven development such as Reshaped UI.
- Deep understanding of orchestrating and composing calls across multiple services.
- Ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs and translate product vision into technical direction.
- Experience developing simple, reusable, changeable systems, including refactoring, platforming, or scalable-pattern work.
- Preference for functional programming and deep understanding of immutability.
- Advanced knowledge of the testing pyramid and automated testing for rapid iterative development.
- Proven technical leadership through mentorship, delegation, and high-quality code reviews.
- Hands-on experience with Cursor or equivalent AI-augmented IDEs and modern coding models.
- Ability to assess AI strengths and limitations, compare implementation approaches, and prevent low-quality AI-generated code from reaching production.
Benefits
- Flexible working options, time off, competitive pay, benefits, and well-being programs.
- Collaborative, inclusive environment with opportunities for continuous learning and career growth.
- Interview process includes a code review assessment, recruiter interview, hiring manager interview, and final in-person or virtual round.
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About Gen Digital
Gen Digital is a public consumer cyber safety company that sells subscription software and services for cybersecurity, online privacy, and identity protection under brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, and ReputationDefender. Formed in 2022 by the merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, it is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and serves more than 150 countries with a user base approaching 500 million. Revenue comes primarily from direct-to-consumer subscriptions and partnerships.