Ontic
About this role
Ontic sells software that corporate and government security teams use to assess risk and respond to threats, with Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies among its customers. This is a frontend architecture role rather than a feature building one. You define the patterns that multiple product teams then use: component architecture, state management, application structure and frontend integrations, plus the shared design system, UI frameworks and tooling. The posting is honest that the influence is horizontal and unofficial, describing the job as influencing technical direction without direct authority and creating leverage through reusable platforms. Alongside that sits performance, accessibility and reliability standards, and leading cross team work on technical debt. It is a platform seat with a UI specialism.
Who this is for
What the posting requires: 8 to 12 years of software engineering experience with deep frontend expertise. Expert level JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS. Extensive React (or similar) experience in large scale applications. Strong expertise in frontend architecture, design systems and scalable UI development. Proven experience building and evolving shared component libraries or frontend platforms. Deep understanding of browser internals, rendering and performance optimisation. Experience defining and driving frontend standards across teams.
The day to day: defining and evolving frontend architecture patterns used across product teams; leading architecture reviews and guiding design decisions; driving adoption of shared platforms, frameworks and tooling to reduce duplicated effort; establishing engineering standards and decision frameworks; setting performance, accessibility and user experience standards; establishing testing, observability and monitoring practice; identifying systemic frontend risks and leading cross team efforts on technical debt; and mentoring senior engineers.
Location and office reality: Pune, India.
Who this is for: a senior frontend engineer who has already outgrown owning one application and wants to shape how several teams build. Be clear eyed about the influence without authority framing: the posting repeats it, which usually means the organisation knows it is the hard part of the job. If you prefer shipping user facing features, the day to day here is mostly standards, reviews and shared abstractions.
The day to day: defining and evolving frontend architecture patterns used across product teams; leading architecture reviews and guiding design decisions; driving adoption of shared platforms, frameworks and tooling to reduce duplicated effort; establishing engineering standards and decision frameworks; setting performance, accessibility and user experience standards; establishing testing, observability and monitoring practice; identifying systemic frontend risks and leading cross team efforts on technical debt; and mentoring senior engineers.
Location and office reality: Pune, India.
Who this is for: a senior frontend engineer who has already outgrown owning one application and wants to shape how several teams build. Be clear eyed about the influence without authority framing: the posting repeats it, which usually means the organisation knows it is the hard part of the job. If you prefer shipping user facing features, the day to day here is mostly standards, reviews and shared abstractions.
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