Frontend Architect

Job Title: Frontend Architect

Location: Gurgaon/Bangalore, India (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-Time

About Simpplr

Simpplr is the leading comprehensive modern intranet platform that helps companies connect and engage employees across the enterprise. Organizations use our forward-looking, adaptable products to deliver personalized experiences that inspire and engage their employees.  Simpplr was built to help businesses not only create an immersive and inspiring digital workplace but also to reinforce their unique culture. We aim to break the barriers of traditional work environments to deliver a better workplace, anywhere.

Trusted by more than 700+ leading brands, including Penske, Snowflake, Moderna, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable improvements in employee engagement, productivity, and accelerated business performance.

Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with offices in UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced hands-on Frontend Architect who will take charge of architecture, design, and implementation while playing an active role in coding, mentoring, and driving technical excellence in the team. This is a leadership role that balances strategic thinking with a practical, roll-up-your-sleeves approach to solving complex technical challenges.You’ll collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across multiple divisions to deliver outstanding software that our customers love. 

Your Job Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

• Architect Scalable Solutions: Define and implement the frontend architecture for our Single Page Applications (SPAs), ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• UI Component Development: Build reusable, efficient, and accessible UI components leveraging modern frameworks like React and TypeScript.
• Performance Optimization: Profile and optimize applications for speed, ensuring best-in-class performance across browsers and devices.
• Collaborative Design: Work closely with backend architects, product managers, and UX designers to translate requirements into highly engaging user interfaces.
• DevOps Integration: Contribute to and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth, automated testing and deployments.
• Quality Assurance: Implement automated testing strategies to deliver reliable and maintainable codebases, using tools like Vitest and Playwright.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor developers, review code, and drive technical decisions to maintain high engineering standards.

Your Skill Set

What makes you a great fit for our team:

• User-focused: You prioritize solving customer problems collaboratively, with a say in planning, design, and execution.
• Strong communicator: Confident leading discussions with teams across the organization and presenting ideas in open forums. You have experience delivering projects where collaboration was essential.

Self motivated: You can work independently seeing a project to completion with minimal guidance.Technical expertise:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with React, including a deep understanding of its internals and the wider JavaScript ecosystem.
• 10+ years of overall experience, with at least 5 years deploying and maintaining applications on AWS.
• Proficiency in TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of browser internals, debugging/profiling tools, and techniques for performance optimization.
• Expertise in building in-house component libraries, with a solid grasp of modular CSS, design systems, and bundlers - including ESM.
• Comprehensive knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks (e.g., Vitest, Playwright), and associated challenges for frontend systems.

We’d especially love to hear from you if:

• You have experience planning and implementing a large monorepo with nx.
• You have experience with ModuleFederation and the challenges associated with micro frontends.
• You have a proven track record of project leadership and mentoring software engineers.
• You are skilled at analyzing codebases and identifying areas for improvement.
• You’ve successfully introduced new technologies and techniques across teams.
• You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, embracing inno