Front - End Technical Lead

Remote Contract (2 years 6 months 17 days) Published 6 days ago SCSS/SASS api integration delivery management DevOps \& CI/CD typescript ngrx web technologies rxjs * The Front\-End Technical Lead is responsible for technical leadership, architecture, delivery quality, and operational stability of QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) client for customer\-facing online ordering experiences across web, iOS, and Android. The role provides hands\-on leadership for the shared Angular, Ionic, and Capacitor codebase and ensures scalable, secure, accessible, high\-performing, and supportable front\-end solutions. * This role leads a distributed front\-end engineering team and partners closely with the Back\-End Technical Lead, Web Front\-End Lead, Digital Lead, Product Owner, UX, QA, Automation, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders. **Key Responsibilities:** Technical Leadership \& Architecture: * Own the technical vision, architecture, engineering standards, delivery quality, and operational stability of the online ordering application across web, iOS, and Android. * Provide hands\-on technical leadership for the shared Angular, Ionic, Capacitor, and TypeScript codebase. * Establish and enforce engineering standards for RxJS, NgRx, HTML5, SCSS, npm, Bootstrap, Axios, responsive design, reusable components, routing, service patterns, and environment configuration. * Design, troubleshoot, and maintain native wrappers and plugins supporting analytics, push notifications, geolocation, permissions, payments, deep linking, authentication, and other platform\-specific capabilities. * Partner with the Web Front\-End Lead supporting React 18, Gatsby, TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo Client, SASS, React Testing Library, and Prismic CMS. * Collaborate with the Back\-End Technical Lead on Node/Express services, GraphQL APIs, REST APIs, AWS AppSync, and third\-party integrations. * Ensure robust and secure integration with Olo, Paytronix, Radar, FreedomPay, Ping Identity, Firebase, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Quantum Metric, and other approved enterprise platforms. * Drive performance optimization, accessibility, security, observability, dependency upgrades, scalability, and technical\-debt remediation across front\-end channels. * Define and maintain coding standards, reusable component patterns, pull\-request controls, unit\-test expectations, quality gates, and technical documentation. Delivery \& Engineering Excellence: * Lead end\-to\-end front\-end delivery for new capabilities, enhancements, defect remediation, and technical\-debt initiatives across web and mobile ordering journeys. * Translate business requirements, UX designs, hero flows, acceptance criteria, and non\-functional requirements into technical designs, implementation tasks, estimates, and release plans. * Contribute actively to backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, design reviews, demonstrations, and release planning. * Lead code reviews, merge approvals, dependency management, front\-end design decisions, documentation, and engineering governance. * Define the testing strategy for Jest unit tests, Angular component and service testing, integration testing, UI testing, simulators, physical devices, responsive layouts, native plugins, and regression automation. * Ensure validation of critical customer capabilities, including Apple Pay, push notifications, authentication redirects, geolocation and geofencing, deep links, permissions, analytics events, and QA mobile builds. * Partner with QA and Automation Engineers to embed front\-end tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve agreed quality, automation, and coverage measures. * Own remediation of accessibility findings and ensure new and modified components follow applicable WCAG and ADA requirements. * Own technical readiness and execution of iOS and Android releases, including versioning, signing, certificates, provisioning profiles, build configuration, release notes, store compliance, and rollout support. * Support QA application distribution through Firebase App Distribution and production publishing through Apple App Store Connect and Google Play Console. * Maintain iOS, Android, and web build pipelines in Azure DevOps using YAML, approved scripts, CLI tooling, and appropriate quality and release controls. * Provide technical leadership during deployments, hypercare, production monitoring, defect triage, and root\-cause analysis. * Use Quantum Metric, Firebase Analytics, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, application logs, and approved dashboards to investigate customer\-impacting issues, validate analytics events, and identify anomalies. * Partner with DevOps to improve build automation, deployment reliability, observability, alerting, front\-end performance, and platform availability. * Drive continuous improvement against agreed delivery, productivity, quality, code coverage, automation, stability, and incident\-reduction objectives. Team Leadership \& Collaboration * Lead and mentor a distributed team of front\-end leads and developers across onshore and offshore locations. * Provide technical direction, coaching, and knowledge sharing to strengthen engineering practices and platform understanding. * Create clear ownership across design, development, review, testing, release, technical documentation, and operational support activities. * Work closely with Product Owners, Digital Leads, UX/Design, Back\-End Engineering, QA, Automation, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders. * Promote constructive technical decision\-making, early risk identification, dependency management, and transparent escalation. * Align the front\-end team with Agile ceremonies, delivery commitments, release governance, and continuous\-improvement practices. **Required Qualifications \& Experience:** * 12\+ years of front\-end engineering experience, including technical leadership of enterprise web or mobile applications. * Strong hands\-on experience with Angular, Ionic, Capacitor, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx. * Demonstrated experience maintaining a shared codebase deployed across web, iOS, and Android. * Working knowledge of Swift, Xcode, Kotlin or Java, Android Studio, and Gradle. * Strong knowledge of responsive web design, mobile UX patterns, component architecture, state management, API integration, performance optimization, and accessibility. * Experience with GraphQL, REST APIs, authentication flows, third\-party SDKs, and complex transactional customer journeys. * Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, pull requests, Firebase App Distribution, Apple App Store Connect, and Google Play Console. * Strong communication, technical documentation, stakeholder\-management, mentoring, and distributed\-team leadership skills. **Preferred Qualifications:** * Experience in QSR, restaurant ordering, digital commerce, payments, loyalty, geolocation, or other high\-volume customer\-facing applications. * Experience with Olo, Paytronix, Radar, FreedomPay, Ping Identity, Firebase, Quantum Metric, Google Analytics, or Google Tag Manager. * Working knowledge of React 18, Gatsby, Apollo Client, GraphQL, React Testing Library, SASS, and Prismic CMS. * Awareness of AWS\-hosted application patterns, including Lambda, AppSync, ECS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and Cloudflare integrations. * Experience working in Agile delivery models with geographically distributed engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and UX teams. The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $43\.92/hour \- $68\.62/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non\-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.