Principal Front End Architect

Role Overview:
We are seeking a visionary Principal Front End Architect to drive the evolution of our frontend architecture and champion a cohesive, AI-enabled, modern UI/UX experience across our product portfolio. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role responsible for defining the user interface strategy that aligns with MeridianLink’s long-term vision, ensuring consistency, scalability, and quality across all products.

Key Responsibilities:
Lead and evolve frontend architecture and standards for our Angular and React applications

Define, document, and enforce frontend architectural principles company-wide

Develop and maintain a shared design system and frontend platform strategy for consistent user experiences

Ensure best practices, reusable patterns, and cross-framework consistency across Angular and React

Guide framework coexistence, migration, and modernization strategies

Set clear performance, accessibility (WCAG), observability, and automated testing standards

Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX Design, and Backend Engineering to shape intuitive end-to-end user flows

Advocate for UI, UX, and platform-level improvements by influencing product and engineering roadmaps

Mentor and guide engineers and frontend leads across teams

Represent frontend architecture and UI strategy in cross-organizational technical forums and architecture reviews

Drive adoption and contribution to shared UI libraries, components, and standards

Integrate AI-assisted UX patterns such as intelligent recommendations, guided workflows, contextual insights, and adaptive UI behaviors

Establish guardrails for responsible AI usage in frontend experiences, considering performance, accessibility, and ethical UX

Define patterns supporting human-in-the-loop UX, transparency, auditability, and feedback in AI-powered interfaces

Promote AI-assisted frontend development practices, including code generation, refactoring, testing, accessibility checks, and documentation

Accelerate delivery while maintaining quality through design-to-code and component generation workflows, leveraging AI appropriately

What You Bring:
Extensive experience as a Frontend Architect or in a similar leadership role

Deep hands-on expertise in modern frontend frameworks, especially Angular and React

Strong UI/UX sensibility and proven ability to translate user needs and designs into scalable technical solutions

Experience developing and scaling shared design systems and UI platforms in complex environments

Thorough understanding of frontend performance optimization, accessibility standards, and testing strategies

Skilled at leading through influence, setting architectural direction, and mentoring senior engineers

Excellent collaboration and communication abilities with cross-functional teams

Track record of delivering thoughtful, trustworthy AI-enabled user experiences

Strong leadership at the intersection of frontend engineering, UX, and AI

Passion for improving developer productivity via standards, shared systems, and AI-assisted workflows

Why Join MeridianLink?
At MeridianLink, your expertise will help shape the UI and UX foundation for the next generation of fintech solutions. This is a unique opportunity to have broad impact and high visibility as you lead the modernization and scaling of our platform, delivering exceptional experiences to users across the nation.