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We’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp. In this role, you will lead architectural strategy across major product surfaces, solve company-wide frontend challenges, and influence how teams build and ship at scale. You will partner deeply with engineering, product, design, backend, and integrations leadership to ensure ClickUp’s frontend systems remain fast, reliable, and adaptable as the business grows.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and implementation levels, especially in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
We’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp. In this role, you will lead architectural strategy across major product surfaces, solve company-wide frontend challenges, and influence how teams build and ship at scale. You will partner deeply with engineering, product, design, backend, and integrations leadership to ensure ClickUp’s frontend systems remain fast, reliable, and adaptable as the business grows.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and implementation levels, especially in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments
Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular 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
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Senior · 10+ years experience
Remote
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