Frontend Architect
DEPARTMENT
Engineering
REPORTS TO
Head of Engineering
EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Full-time · IC
EXPERIENCE
8–10 years
FUNCTION
Frontend Platform
About the Role
BigFM is building a media super-app bringing together video, audio, radio, micro-drama, news and commerce on a single platform. We're hiring a Frontend Architect to own the technical architecture and long-term technical direction for our entire frontend and mobile surface — spanning our React Native consumer app, admin portal, CMS and shared design system.
This is a foundational, individual-contributor technical leadership role. You will define how a single codebase and design system scales across six content and commerce verticals, setting the technical direction that the wider Frontend Engineering team builds against.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the frontend/mobile technical architecture across the React Native app, Admin Portal, CMS and internal tools
- Establish and evolve the shared Design System and component library used across all frontend surfaces
- Set technical standards, code quality bars and architectural guardrails for the Frontend Engineering team
- Make foundational technology decisions — state management, navigation, module boundaries, build/release pipeline — that keep engineers interchangeable across mobile, web and admin surfaces
- Partner closely with the Backend Architect and Platform Engineer to define clean API contracts and integration patterns
- Partner with the Tech Lead to translate architectural direction into a deliverable roadmap
- Conduct architecture and code reviews for high-impact changes
- Evaluate and introduce new frontend technologies and tools where they meaningfully improve velocity, performance or maintainability
- Own frontend performance, scalability and technical debt strategy as the platform scales beyond Phase 1
Required Qualifications
- 8–10 years of frontend/mobile engineering experience, including at least 2–3 years in a formal architecture or staff/principal engineering capacity
- Deep, hands-on expertise in React Native at production scale, plus modern React, JavaScript and TypeScript
- Proven experience architecting frontend systems that serve multiple products or surfaces from a shared codebase or design system
- Strong understanding of mobile app performance, state management patterns and cross-platform architecture trade-offs
- Experience building or scaling a design system / component library
- Comfortable operating as a high-impact individual contributor, leading through technical authority and influence
- Excellent communication skills — able to document and evangelize architectural decisions to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a media, content or commerce super-app environment
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup building 0→1 platforms
- Familiarity with backend API design (GraphQL/REST) to enable strong full-stack architectural conversations
- Experience with CI/CD, build performance optimization and release engineering for mobile apps
Pay: ₹100,000.00 - ₹300,000.00 per month
Benefits:
- Paid sick time
- Provident Fund
Work Location: In person
