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Lead Front-end Engineer (React)

Office in China: Guangzhou, & 2 others
JavaScript (Frontend)& 4 others
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We are seeking a Lead Front-end Engineer (React) in Shenzhen, Chengdu or Guangzhou. You will guide a front-end team while staying hands-on, shaping React architecture, coding standards and delivery practices. You will partner with product, design and back-end teams to ship accessible, performant user experiences, improve testing and workflows and lead technical decisions through planning, release and support.

Responsibilities
  • Lead day-to-day front-end delivery, aligning priorities, dependencies and commitments across the team
  • Define and evolve React architecture, coding standards and implementation patterns
  • Build and maintain reusable UI components and user-facing features
  • Break down requirements into technical tasks, support estimation and track progress and risks
  • Partner with product, design, back-end, QA and platform teams to agree on technical solutions
  • Review code and designs, provide actionable feedback and promote consistent practices
  • Improve quality across testing, accessibility, performance, security and cross-browser behavior
  • Troubleshoot complex defects and production issues, driving root-cause fixes and clear communication
Requirements
  • Proven experience building production web applications with React
  • Expertise in JavaScript and hands-on use of TypeScript in front-end development
  • Technical leadership experience guiding front-end delivery, mentoring or setting engineering direction
  • Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, responsive design and browser behavior
  • Front-end architecture skills including component-based design, trade-offs and decision-making
  • Experience integrating REST APIs, managing state and handling asynchronous data flows
  • Testing and quality mindset including automated testing practices and code review standards
  • Clear communication and problem-solving ability with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to have
  • Experience with Next.js, server-side rendering or micro-frontend architectures
  • Familiarity with React Testing Library, Jest or similar testing tools
  • Experience with design systems, component libraries, visual regression testing or CI/CD pipelines