About Gradera
Gradera defines a new category of enterprise transformation called Software-Orchestrated Services™ - where software orchestrates human expertise, digital workers, and enterprise systems to deliver governed outcomes at scale. As an AI Native Services firm, we help enterprises redesign how work gets done across operations, product, engineering, customer experience, data, and enterprise workflows to move beyond fragmented AI pilots and disconnected automation toward measurable business outcomes.
Overview
We are seeking a hands-on, collaborative Lead Full Stack UI Engineer to drive the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of user-facing application interfaces. As Lead Full Stack UI Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and guidance to the UI team, ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, modular, high-performance, and intuitive end-to-end solutions for our agentic platform. This role partners closely with UX, product, and backend teams.
Our core UI tech stack includes:
Frontend & Design System
React + TypeScript (with Next.js), ShadCN/UI , Tailwind CSS for building user interfaces.
Storybook for our design system and component library.
Backend & APIs
TypeScript with NestJS for building backend services and integrating with REST and gRPC APIs.
Testing
Jest and Playwright for unit and end-to-end testing.
Karate for API testing.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the UI engineering team
Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of the design system, component library, UI architecture, and supporting backend services
Ensure delivery of high-performance, responsive, and accessible user interfaces
Architect and integrate APIs and backend services to support UI requirements
Drive adoption of best practices in frontend engineering, including component standardization, security integration, and progressive loading
Champion user-centered design and usability in partnership with UX and product teams
Oversee integration of agentic and real-time features into the UI
Guide the use of AI-assisted development tools and modern frontend and backend frameworks, architectural patterns, scaffolding approaches, and libraries
Own the implementation and quality of Web Analytics and Behavioral Analytics to enable continuous improvement and evolution of our products
Collaborate with the Developer Experience (DX) Lead to automate and streamline common engineering tasks
Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met across the stack
Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team
Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development
Drive development efficiency and alignment with product team priorities through clear prioritization frameworks and delivery metrics
Core Qualities & Skills
Proven experience leading full stack or frontend engineering teams and delivering complex user-facing projects
Deep expertise in React, TypeScript and Node.js technologies.
Experience with design systems, component libraries, and UI performance optimization
Experience designing, building, and integrating RESTful or GraphQL APIs, Protobuf with gRPC and gRPC-Web
Strong understanding of accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, and responsive design
Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines
Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies
System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs across the stack
Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities
Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change
Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices (including OAuth 2.0, Authorization, Authentication, Chain-of-custody, Claims management, and Principle of Least Privilege [POLP])
Experience in ESRI ArcGIS Map usage in UI is a big plus.
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of hands-on full stack or frontend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable end-to-end systems
Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)
Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers
Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams
Highly Desirable
Experience implementing and evolving enterprise-grade design systems
Familiarity with ShadCN/UI familiarity along with Material UI, Storybook, and/or similar tools
Experience using AI-assisted UI development and rapid prototyping
Track record of delivering interfaces with sub-second time to first interaction and high component reuse
Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence
Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams
Success Metrics
Time to first interaction for user interfaces
Component reuse rate and design system adoption
User task completion rates and usability feedback scores
Accessibility and cross-browser compliance
Turns (iteration cycles, delivery cadence)
Bugs (defect rate, bug count, resolution time)
Team delivery velocity and quality
System reliability, scalability, and performance
Technical debt reduction and architectural alignment
Team growth, engagement, and retention
Stakeholder satisfaction and cross-team collaboration