Front-end Architect

Description

Job ID 63655 Category Enterprise Technology Location São Paulo, Brazil Work Type Hybrid **About the Role** We are seeking a **Senior Frontend Architect** to serve as the technical backbone of our frontend engineering. Your mission is to move beyond feature delivery and focus on building a robust, scalable, and automated **development platform**. You will define how our products are built, ensuring a seamless Developer Experience (DX) and high\-performance delivery. This is a **Technical Lead/Individual Contributor** role. You will provide technical direction and mentorship. **The Technical Challenge** * Work at the cutting edge of technology with Figma\-to\-Code automation via AI within the Google Cloud stack. * Build an architecture that supports multiple teams and products at scale. * Full autonomy to propose and implement tools that improve global engineering productivity. * **Design System Architecture:** Architect and evolve our Design System based on **Web Components**, ensuring it is framework\-agnostic, reusable, and easily integrated into Angular environments. * **Technical Standards \& Guidance:** Define, document, and disseminate frontend architecture patterns. Act as a technical consultant for product squads, ensuring best practices are applied. * **AI\-Driven Innovation (GCP):** Create acceleration tools using **Google Cloud Platform (Vertex AI / Agent Platform)** to automate code generation (Figma\-to\-Code), bridging the gap between design and implementation. * **Frontend Health \& Metrics:** Develop tools and dashboards to monitor frontend health (test coverage, complexity, bundle size). Create actionable metrics to guide teams toward continuous improvement. * **Tuning \& Performance:** Drive performance optimization initiatives (Core Web Vitals, Change Detection strategies, Lazy Loading), ensuring ultra\-fast and responsive interfaces. * **Technical Mentorship:** Actively mentor interns and junior developers, creating learning paths to elevate the team's technical bar. * **Technical Evolution:** Drive the adoption of modern Angular features (Signals, Standalone Components) and manage **Monorepo (Nx)** structures to optimize code sharing. **Technical Requirements (Hard Skills)** * Solid experience as a Frontend Architect or Technical Lead. * Deep expertise in **Angular** (recent versions) and its ecosystem. * Hands\-on experience building **Design Systems** and **Web Components** (Stencil.js, Lit, or Vanilla). * Strong knowledge of **Software Architecture**, Design Patterns, and Clean Code. * Experience with Monorepo tools (preferably **Nx**). * **Experience with GCP (Vertex AI / Agent Platform)** for building agents and automating development workflows. * Mastery of testing strategies (Unit, E2E with Cypress/Playwright, and Visual Regression). * Proficiency with design tools (**Figma**) and extracting **Design Tokens**. **Soft Skills** * **Technical Mentorship:** A passion for teaching and the patience to guide developers at the start of their careers. * **Systemic Vision:** Ability to look at the entire ecosystem to anticipate development bottlenecks. * **Influential Communication:** Ability to justify technical decisions and align standards across stakeholders (Product, Design, and Engineering). * **Pragmatism:** Ability to balance technical excellence with business delivery needs. \#LI\-GF1**\#LI\-FordBrasil**