Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team at Xsolla (USA), Inc. – Montreal | Jobyssey

You will provide technical leadership for the frontend platform, define its architecture and standards, and guide technical direction. You will lead delivery, modernization, testing, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cross-functional platform integration while coaching engineers and communicating technical trade-offs.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the frontend platform, defining architecture, coding standards, and long-term technical direction.
Coach, mentor, and manage approximately eight developers.
Partner with other Tech Leads to ensure architectural alignment, consistent standards, and unified decision-making.
Oversee planning and execution of platform features and improvements.
Drive modernization, refactoring, and performance enhancements.
Establish and enforce engineering best practices for coding, documentation, testing, and reviews.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and platform teams.
Ensure automated test coverage and reliable CI/CD workflows.
Leverage automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and improve consistency.
Own incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
Advocate for scalability, performance, security, and observability.
Identify technical risks, estimate complexity, and communicate trade-offs.
Align with engineering teams on shared services, APIs, rendering pipelines, and platform interfaces.

Requirements

8+ years of software development experience with modern frontend engineering at scale.
At least 3 years in a similar Tech Lead role.
Hands-on knowledge of React, including component architecture, SSR patterns, RSC, and complex UI data flows.
Proficiency with Node.js and MongoDB.
Understanding of modern styling systems, theming approaches, vanilla-extract, styled-components, and design tokens.
TypeScript practices, including strict typing, shared contracts, and schema validation with Zod or equivalent.
Experience with Module Federation.
Understanding of bundling and compilation with webpack, Rollup, Vite, or esbuild.
Experience with Vitest or Jest and end-to-end testing with Playwright or Cypress.
Understanding of backend integration patterns, including REST, GraphQL, and RPC-style APIs.
Experience with CI/CD workflows, GitLab CI or similar, private registries, and secure artifact handling.
Ability to lead engineers, own architectural decisions, and manage delivery for complex platform projects.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off

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