[Hiring] Lead Frontend Engineer @Meridian AI

Role Description

Must be based in North America.

What You'll Do:

• Set frontend technical direction.
• Own architectural standards, patterns, and the code review bar across the web app, Chrome extension, Outlook add-in, and React Native mobile app. The health of the frontend codebase is your direct responsibility.
• Manage the team.
• Run 1:1s, set goals, give feedback, hire, mentor. You own the team's performance and growth.
• Own the release process across surfaces.
• Web app, extensions, and mobile ship on different cadences — including off-cycle deployments and Chrome Web Store/Outlook/App Store review submissions.
• Ship the hardest features end-to-end.
• Stay hands-on. Lead implementation of the most complex, cross-cutting work, partnering with product and design. Push on polish, interaction, and performance — our users are investment professionals and they notice.
• Partner across the stack.
• Coordinate laterally with the Backend, Infra, QA, and AI tech leads. Work closely with our Head of Product and design partners; bring frontend feasibility into design conversations early. You won't write backend code, but you'll read API contracts fluently and debug end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Senior frontend engineer.
• 7+ years building production web applications.
• Multi-surface experience.
• You've shipped across at least two: web apps, browser extensions, email/productivity add-ins, or mobile (React Native preferred).
• You've managed engineers.
• Direct people management, including owning 1:1s, performance, hiring, and growth. Formal people management is required, not just informal tech lead experience.
• Design partnership.
• You implement designs faithfully but aren't a pixel-pusher. You push back when an interaction is wrong, and you've shipped polished work you're proud of.
• Comfortable across the stack.
• You read API contracts fluently and debug end-to-end without needing handholding.

Requirements

• Bonus Experience:
• Experience building or scaling React Native apps from early stages.
• Background in fintech, private equity, or financial services technology.
• Improving frontend performance, build times, or developer experience at scale.

Benefits

• Own the frontend.
• Set the conventions across web, extensions, and mobile. We'd rather adopt your opinions than hand you ours.
• Cross-team by default.
• Work directly with the CTO, Head of Product, Solutions Architect, and the backend/infra tech leads.
• Build the team.
• Hire and mentor additional FE engineers reporting to you.
• Initiative welcome.
• See something worth fixing, fix it. Bring opinions about tooling, patterns, and process.
• Users who notice.
• Investment professionals at top firms will use what you ship every day.