Front-End Lead Engineer

*For this role you must be able to work on a hybrid basis with at least 1 day per week working in our office based in Skopje.* This role sits within Deltatre's OTT delivery organisation, where front-end engineering teams build the applications millions of fans use to watch live and on-demand sport. The team combines hands-on engineering with the delivery discipline needed to ship reliably across major international projects. As Front-End Lead Engineer, you will drive the development of high-quality, scalable front-end solutions while staying hands-on with the code. You'll shape front-end architecture, set engineering standards across delivery teams, guide and mentor engineers, and act as the main technical point of contact between your team and stakeholders. **Responsibilities** **Technical excellence** - Oversee all front-end engineering aspects of assigned projects, ensuring robust, scalable, secure, high-performing, and accessible solutions - Plan, schedule, coordinate, and monitor front-end development activities, driving task prioritisation and providing technical assessments and estimations - Review and validate the technical approach and code quality for all team deliverables, ensuring compliance with best practices, coding standards, and performance benchmarks - Identify and resolve technical issues and blockers, raising concerns with proposed architecture and escalating when necessary - Drive the adoption of automation, efficient tooling, and modern front-end technologies and methodologies - Establish efficient front-end workflows and processes, and maintain supporting documentation, including architectural principles **Leadership and team growth** - Mentor, coach, and support the professional growth and onboarding of engineering team members - Track and support performance feedback within the team - Contribute to the recruitment and integration of new front-end team members **Strategy and process management** - Contribute technical insights to project planning, aligning team efforts with project goals and identifying opportunities for technical improvement - Collaborate with Technical Directors to find innovative front-end solutions and share knowledge - Support the team in grooming planned activities and detailing stories with the BA/PO, including defining acceptance criteria - Manage and communicate technical risks, escalating to the Lead PM or Technical Director when necessary **Communication and stakeholder engagement** - Act as the main technical point of contact for the team, engaging with customers and stakeholders on technical topics and bridging technical and business perspectives - Translate business requirements into technical needs in collaboration with the Product Owner - Present technical solutions and progress clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, escalating larger initiatives to the Technical Director when appropriate - Provide on-call support when required **Requirements** You have done this before - here's what we're looking for. **Required** - Proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+) fundamentals - Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles - Experience with Node.js, particularly with the Next.js framework and server-side/client-side rendering concepts - Strong knowledge of Tailwind CSS for building responsive, reusable user interfaces - Expertise in front-end testing using Jest - Expertise designing scalable front-end architecture for complex applications, with a strong grasp of component-based and other modern design patterns - Strong understanding of performance optimisation, benchmarking, security, and accessibility best practices - High proficiency with Git - Experience guiding and mentoring engineers, including supporting their professional growth - Track record of making and owning architectural decisions, and communicating technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders **Valued** - Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches for deployment and release management - Basic knowledge of self-hosting Node.js applications in containerised environments - Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes for deployment and orchestration of front-end applications - Experience with front-end build tools and module bundlers **Who Thrives Here** This role sits between hands-on engineering and technical leadership - you're reviewing a pull request one moment and explaining an architectural trade-off to a client the next. It suits someone who wants to stay close to the code while also shaping how a team works. People who do well here are comfortable making and owning architectural decisions, give feedback that actually helps engineers grow rather than just flagging problems, and can translate a technical constraint into terms a non-technical stakeholder can act on. **Process and what to expect** - Introductory conversation: a step for us to get to know each other better, and for us to answer all questions you might have around Deltatre. - 1-hour Technical round of Interview: we will deep dive on your experience and collect examples of the responsibilities you've been dealing with in your past experience. A chance to deep dive on the role and for you to ask questions. - 1-hour Competency Based Interview: we will ask you situational questions around how you deal with real-life scenarios at work. Easier doing it, more than explaining it. If any of these formats would be difficult for you, tell us - we adjust regularly and can usually accommodate. *Accessibility and accommodation questions are welcome at any stage. Tell us what would work for you.* Burimi: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4459917731/

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