JD-Front End Architect
Exp:12-18yrs
Shift:General
Location: Bengaluru
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Architect to lead and own the end-to-end architecture of our unified web platform.
This role is accountable for driving scalability, performance, and reliability across complex, multi-layered web systems, while providing strong hands-on technical leadership and solution guidance across multiple teams and streams.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in large-scale web platforms, including non-logged-in and logged-in B2C, B2B, and eCommerce customer journeys, and the ability to translate these into robust, scalable technical solutions. A strong inclination to deep dive into code and platform internals (frontend and backend) is essential.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Platform Ownership
Define, design, and govern end-to-end architecture across frontend, middleware, APIs, backend, and integration layers, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security, scalability, and performance requirements
Drive technology strategy and architectural roadmap for web platforms (B2C, B2B, eCommerce), including cross-platform dependencies and integrations
Lead platform-level initiatives focused on performance optimization, scalability, caching strategies (CDN/edge), and operational resilience
Identify and address systemic gaps, bottlenecks, and technical debt across the platform
Establish observability frameworks, SLOs, and reliability metrics (e.g., Core Web Vitals), and lead RCA with durable fixes
Technical Leadership & Solutioning
Act as the technical authority for complex system design, architecture decisions, and critical delivery milestones
Provide hands-on guidance in architecture reviews, solution design, and key code areas; mentor engineering teams to improve engineering quality and maturity
Translate business requirements into scalable, implementation-ready solutions, ensuring feasibility and alignment with platform strategy
Guide adoption of modern architecture patterns including modular/monorepo architectures, microservices, API-first and event-driven designs
Enforce engineering best practices in secure coding, performance optimization, and system reliability
Governance, Quality & Delivery Assurance
Lead architecture governance, design reviews, and technical audits, ensuring adherence to standards, performance benchmarks, and regulatory requirements
Ensure strong decision gates and quality checkpoints across the delivery lifecycle General
Partner closely with QA, DevOps, and Release Management to ensure robust CI/CD, release governance, and production readiness
Oversee impact analysis of changes across frontend, backend, APIs, caching layers, and integrations to ensure minimal risk and high release confidence
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership
Clearly communicate architecture vision, trade-offs, and risk positions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, and Business teams to align customer experience with platform capabilities
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Drive adoption of modern web and platform engineering practices (API-first, cloud-native, headless CMS, composable architectures)
Introduce tools, frameworks, and practices to improve developer productivity, platform performance, and delivery efficiency
Stay current with evolving technologies across frontend ecosystems, CMS, and digital commerce platforms
Required Skills & Experience
Strong experience in enterprise web platform architecture across frontend, backend, and integration layers
Deep understanding of B2C, B2B, and eCommerce customer journeys (logged-in and non-logged-in)
Hands-on expertise in:
- SvelteKit, React, Angular, headless UI, SSR/CSR hybrid rendering, Reusable components (eg: Quartz)
- Node.js / Java / serverless architectures (e.g., Lambda), middleware aggregation, server-side rendering (SSR)
- Third party integrations for search, personalization, content indexing
- APIs, microservices, and integration patterns with REST / GraphQL services
- Caching strategies (CDN, Akamai, edge caching), reverse proxy routing & traffic handling
- CMS and composable platforms (e.g., Builder.io, Spryker)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Cloud service containers (Amplify, K8), API gateways, messaging
- Strong understanding of scalability, performance engineering, resilience patterns, and security best practices, using Dynatrace, telemetry and load testing tools such as JMeter, tracking Core web vitals (LCP, CLS, INP)
- Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps practices, observability, and monitoring tools (Nx or monorepo-based setups preferred)
- Ability to own the complete solution lifecycle, from architecture through execution alignment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with a decisive, problem-solving mindset
- Experience 12-18+ years in software engineering 5+ years in architect-level roles leading large-scale web platforms
General
Proven experience in platform transformation initiatives and multi-team ecosystems
Certifications such as TOGAF, AWS Architect
Success Metrics
Improved platform stability, uptime, and Core Web Vitals performance
Reduction in production incidents and recurring defects
Delivery of scalable, resilient, and maintainable architectures
Adoption of architecture standards
Pay: ₹2,000,000.00 - ₹2,500,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- Must have 12yrs exp in front end development
- 5+ years in architect-level roles leading large-scale web platforms
- Notice Period
- Expected CTC
Work Location: In person
