Lead Frontend Engineer in Chennai, भारत

Responsibilities

• Own frontend architecture, technology standards, component architecture, state management, rendering strategy, performance budgets, and accessibility for AI Platform UI surfaces.
• Build production conversational UIs with streaming responses, multi-agent trace visualization, citation and grounding displays, tool-call transparency, feedback widgets, and graceful fallback states.
• Develop and maintain a versioned, themeable AI component library and design system documented with Storybook for use across multiple product squads.
• Create golden-path frontend templates, starter kits, developer portal experiences, and service catalog entries that enable teams to self-provision AI UIs and resources.
• Build full-stack features across React applications, BFF services, orchestration layers, Google ADK workflows, Vertex AI Gemini, RAG systems, and vector search.
• Implement secure OAuth2 and API gateway integrations, including authentication, authorization, token refresh, session handling, and role-based UI rendering.
• Develop SSE and WebSocket streaming experiences for token-level responses, agent states, tool execution progress, and low-latency interactions.
• Establish component, end-to-end, deterministic-mocking, observability, telemetry, feedback, and performance practices for AI interfaces.
• Deploy frontend and BFF services on Kubernetes and GKE using CI/CD, progressive delivery, and environment promotion practices.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, backend, product, architecture, and IT operations teams to improve developer experience, platform adoption, cost efficiency, and self-service capabilities.
• Own platform roadmap reviews, versioning, deprecations, adoption metrics, developer satisfaction, time-to-first-deploy metrics, and governance guardrails.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience.
• Experience in frontend engineering, self-service engineering, and platform engineering.
• Expertise with React, https://jobeax.com/link/Z30sZYC3jcRenVso, TypeScript, and https://jobeax.com/link/JSd7UYCSg572jJDY for production frontend and BFF development.
• Experience integrating AI applications with Vertex AI, Gemini, Google ADK, https://jobeax.com/link/5JI173dwnTLARxOA, RAG systems, streaming APIs, and agent workflows.
• Experience building design systems, reusable component libraries, developer portals, service catalogs, and self-service platform experiences.
• Experience with SSE, WebSockets, OAuth2, API gateways, accessibility standards, frontend performance optimization, and real-time interfaces.
• Experience with Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Storybook, and deterministic testing strategies for AI outputs.
• Experience with FastAPI or https://jobeax.com/link/JSd7UYCSg572jJDY BFF services, BigQuery, Vertex Vector Search, Kubernetes, GKE, GitHub Actions, and Cloud Build.
• Experience with cloud FinOps and optimizing cloud infrastructure consumption costs.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical and non-functional specifications and collaborate with senior enterprise architecture and IT operations leaders.