Principal Frontend Engineer

Responsibilities

• ▹Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments
• ▹Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular 2+ and React that support rapid product development
• ▹Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity
• ▹Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems
• ▹Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization
• ▹Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems
• ▹Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality
• ▹Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards
• ▹Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnership

Requirements

• ▹10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications
• ▹Expert-level experience with Angular 2+, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
• ▹Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users
• ▹Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture
• ▹Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas
• ▹Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments
• ▹Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels
• ▹Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations
• ▹Experience with testing infrastructure and defining testing strategies for large-scale features

Soft skills

About the company

ClickUp is building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. As an AI-native company, every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and AI fluency is evaluated as part of the hiring process.