Front - End Technical Lead

The Front-End Technical Lead is responsible for technical leadership, architecture, delivery quality, and operational stability of QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) client for customer-facing online ordering experiences across web, iOS, and Android. The role provides hands-on leadership for the shared Angular, Ionic, and Capacitor codebase and ensures scalable, secure, accessible, high-performing, and supportable front-end solutions.

This role leads a distributed front-end engineering team and partners closely with the Back-End Technical Lead, Web Front-End Lead, Digital Lead, Product Owner, UX, QA, Automation, Dev Ops, Security, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Architecture:

Own the technical vision, architecture, engineering standards, delivery quality, and operational stability of the online ordering application across web, iOS, and Android.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for the shared Angular, Ionic, Capacitor, and Type Script codebase.

Establish and enforce engineering standards for RxJS, NgRx, HTML5, SCSS, npm, Bootstrap, Axios, responsive design, reusable components, routing, service patterns, and environment configuration.

Design, troubleshoot, and maintain native wrappers and plugins supporting analytics, push notifications, geolocation, permissions, payments, deep linking, authentication, and other platform-specific capabilities.

Partner with the Web Front-End Lead supporting React 18, Gatsby, Type Script, GraphQL, Apollo Client, SASS, React Testing Library, and Prismic CMS.

Collaborate with the Back-End Technical Lead on Node/Express services, GraphQL APIs, REST APIs, AWS App Sync, and third-party integrations.

Ensure robust and secure integration with Olo, Paytronix, Radar, Freedom Pay, Ping Identity, Firebase, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Quantum Metric, and other approved enterprise platforms.

Drive performance optimization, accessibility, security, observability, dependency upgrades, scalability, and technical-debt remediation across front-end channels.

Define and maintain coding standards, reusable component patterns, pull-request controls, unit-test expectations, quality gates, and technical documentation.

Delivery & Engineering Excellence:

Lead end-to-end front-end delivery for new capabilities, enhancements, defect remediation, and technical-debt initiatives across web and mobile ordering journeys.

Translate business requirements, UX designs, hero flows, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements into technical designs, implementation tasks, estimates, and release plans.

Contribute actively to backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, design reviews, demonstrations, and release planning.

Lead code reviews, merge approvals, dependency management, front-end design decisions, documentation, and engineering governance.

Define the testing strategy for Jest unit tests, Angular component and service testing, integration testing, UI testing, simulators, physical devices, responsive layouts, native plugins, and regression automation.

Ensure validation of critical customer capabilities, including Apple Pay, push notifications, authentication redirects, geolocation and geofencing, deep links, permissions, analytics events, and QA mobile builds.

Partner with QA and Automation Engineers to embed front-end tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve agreed quality, automation, and coverage measures.

Own remediation of accessibility findings and ensure new and modified components follow applicable WCAG and ADA requirements.

Own technical readiness and execution of iOS and Android releases, including versioning, signing, certificates, provisioning profiles, build configuration, release notes, store compliance, and rollout support.

Support QA application distribution through Firebase App Distribution and production publishing through Apple App Store Connect and Google Play Console.

Maintain iOS, Android, and web build pipelines in Azure Dev Ops using YAML, approved scripts, CLI tooling, and appropriate quality and release controls.

Provide technical leadership during deployments, hypercare, production monitoring, defect triage, and root-cause analysis.

Use Quantum Metric, Firebase Analytics, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, application logs, and approved dashboards to investigate customer-impacting issues, validate analytics events, and identify anomalies.

Partner with Dev Ops to improve build automation, deployment reliability, observability, alerting, front-end…