Ideals
Frontend Tech Lead (React)
Summary
Ideals is a global B2B SaaS product company in the secure business collaboration market, trusted by over 2,000,000 users. As a Frontend Tech Lead (React), you will be a hands-on technical leader building the Ideals Board platform, owning frontend architecture decisions and raising delivery quality.
What you'll do
- Own frontend technical direction for key areas of Ideals Board: architecture, patterns, and long-term maintainability
- Make the design system work properly in real product development: ensure consistency, improve developer experience, and close gaps between design and implementation
- Lead redesigns of key product parts end-to-end (technical + UX) and shape solutions with Product Design and Backend teams
- Raise quality ownership across the team: testing strategy, code review culture, definition of done, and proactive refactoring
- Drive technical design: write and review technical solutions, identify risks early, and align the team on implementation approaches
- Be a strong hands-on contributor: deliver features, tackle complex tasks, debug production issues, and improve performance and reliability
- Mentor and multiply: coach frontend engineers, share best practices, and grow overall team expertise
- Collaborate closely with Product managers, Designers, Backend, QA, and DevOps Engineers
Requirements
- 6+ years of strong hands-on experience building production web applications with React + TypeScript
- Proven ability to lead technical design: decomposition, trade-offs, and aligning stakeholders
- Experience building or scaling design systems/component libraries and enforcing consistency
- Strong engineering fundamentals: maintainability, performance, accessibility, security-minded UI development, and pragmatic quality practices
- Confidence with modern frontend tooling and delivery: testing (unit/integration/e2e), CI/CD, observability, and effective debugging
- Leadership through influence: mentoring, constructive feedback, driving alignment, and creating clarity
- A quality mindset focused on outcomes, user impact, and leaving systems better than found
- English at the B2 level
- Nice to have: Experience with B2B SaaS products, high-trust environments, familiarity with broader stack (AWS/Kubernetes, backend integration), and running frontend initiatives across multiple teams
Conditions
Remote-first flexibility: Home workplace budget, individual IT budget for equipment, top-tier tech and AI-powered tools
Growth: Access to Ideals Academy, investment in external learning, Personal Development Plan guidance, professional literature coverage, speaker/writer support, internal talent mobility
Well-being: Medical insurance, Wellness Package for sports, mental health session coverage, sports competition funding, 20 business days paid time off per year, unlimited health-related time-off
Extra perks: Budget for local team meetups, generous internal referral program
Office locations: Resilient office in Kyiv with co-working expense coverage available