Lead Frontend React Engineer - Work from home

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking a Lead Frontend React Engineer to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way.

Why join Nortal

• Say Goodbye to Micromanagement: We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values.
• Outcomes Over Hours: We believe in a work model focused on impact, providing you with the flexibility to balance your professional success with your personal well-being.
• Vibrant Community: Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities.
• Support from Day One: Our People Care team is here to support you throughout your journey, from wellness check-ins to professional growth.

Our Benefits ✨

• Competitive USD salary.
• 100% remote work: While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM.
• Paid time off & national holidays: Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary.
• Sick leave: Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better.
• Annual credit: Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance.
• Team-building activities: Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community.
• Birthday off: Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family.

About the project:

We have an opening for a Senior Web Technical Lead with strong JavaScript/TypeScript Engineering skills and strong Computer Science foundations, to lead our flagship web application development team.

In this role, you will architect, implement and optimize consumer-facing 3D web applications. You will develop a high-performance architecture, APIs and features interfacing between the user, the 3D graphics engine, and our microservices cloud platform. You will be the trusted, go-to person to solve our most important front-end technical challenges, drive technical roadmaps, and strengthen development processes that the rest of the team can build on.

You will be the captain and can-do champion of our distributed web engineering team – coaching and motivating the team to excellence. You will lead the web engineering team to continually improve products, code bases, processes and practices - leading to customer success, efficiency, performance and commercial success.

What you’ll do:

• Be a hands on technical lead for a team of 3-5 web engineers, guiding design & development of consumer-facing features, web architectures, backend APIs and other technologies.
• Develop & improve web feature capabilities, making them successful and loved by customers, and wisely engineered, maintainable, and scalable).
• Reliably coordinate complex technology roadmaps with a distributed development team and our partners.
• Be a trusted partner to your stakeholders: your product manager & designers, company leadership, and your external partners.
• Drive audience growth with seamless customer journeys: Work closely with service teams to design, build and develop an integrated customer experience • both online & in-store.
• Design and promote healthy & effective engineering practices in the team: Conduct code reviews to ensure code & architecture quality, write and review software design documents, and drive efficient and effective test automation.

What makes you a great fit:

• 8+ years of substantial experience in full-stack engineering, web codebases live in production and ownership of systems at scale.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontend development and React (or equivalent component frameworks), with deep expertise in state management, performance optimization, and component architecture.
• 5+ years of experience designing and shipping complex distributed systems, including API design, microservices integration, and performance-critical architectures.
• 3+ years of experience leading small engineering teams (3-6 engineers) on business-critical projects, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong foundations in Computer Science and software engineering.
• Fluency with Internet web technologies and modern full-stack Web Application tech stacks.
• Familiar with best practices of web DevOPS and QA for effective & efficient testing.
• Experience with consumer internet applications is strongly desired.
• Able to adjust calendar for meetings with Europe (Eastern Time location preferred).
• Appreciation for consumer experience and visual aesthetics preferred.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced distributed engineering environment. Startup experience preferred.
• Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons.

Global Impact, Local Culture 🌍

For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.

We believe complexity doesn’t have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That’s why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business-critical initiatives.

Apply now and let’s shape the future of technology together! 🧑 💻

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