Senior QA Engineer
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Principal Frontend Engineer
Paddle
full-time
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Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
Tech Stack
JavaScriptReactTypeScript
About the role
- Own and articulate the long-term technical vision and architectural strategy for Paddle's frontend ecosystem
- Define durable frontend architectural patterns, component libraries, and design systems that enable multiple teams to build consistently and safely at speed
- Champion innovation in user experience technology and drive adoption of emerging frontend patterns that deliver measurable improvements in performance, accessibility, and developer velocity
- Initiate and drive large, complex programmes of work that simplify frontend systems, improve performance metrics, and accelerate feature delivery
- Serve as the decision-maker on high-stakes technical choices and architectural trade-offs
- Develop deep product fluency connecting frontend architecture decisions to user satisfaction, conversion rates, and business metrics
- Partner with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to turn ambitious user experience ideas into feasible technical implementations
- Establish monitoring, performance profiling, and debugging patterns to elevate frontend operational excellence
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers and grow frontend technical leadership capability across the organisation
- Represent Paddle's frontend technical direction in executive and cross-functional forums and lead transformative programmes to retire frontend complexity
Requirements
- Deep expertise designing and evolving large-scale, business-critical frontend systems with strong foundations in performance, accessibility, and maintainability
- Mastery of React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript ecosystems
- Deep domain expertise in web service technologies (CDNs, monitoring tools like Sentry, performance optimization)
- Track record of leading company-level frontend technical strategy and delivering multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives
- Experience operating as an architect, strategist, and problem solver, making high-stakes technical decisions
- Comfortable collaborating and getting hands-on with code, including code reviews and system design
- Extensive experience leading large-scale initiatives and/or managing other engineers
- Excellent communication skills across audiences, from engineers to executives
- Championing frontend best practices including performance optimization, security, accessibility, and testing
- Intellectual curiosity and passion for web technology evolution
- Experience empowering and uplifting others through mentorship and documentation
