Lead Front End Engineer (React)

Join EPAM Systems as a Lead Front-end Engineer and drive the modernization of a large-scale enterprise application.

You will lead the migration from legacy platforms to scalable React architectures. As a hands-on leader, you will also leverage AI-assisted tools to mentor teams and optimize workflows across the software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of modern, scalable React.js frontend applications, including re-architecting and migrating legacy UI components into a modern frontend framework
• Design robust front-end architectures, component libraries and engineering standards
• Collaborate with back-end teams to execute seamless platform decoupling initiatives
• Work hands-on across legacy and modern technology stacks, supporting application modernization and migration initiatives to AWS
• Lead the adoption and implementation of AI-assisted SDLC practices, driving the practical use of AI tools to improve engineering productivity

Requirements

• Strong experience in JavaScript (ES6+) and React.js
• Track record of success utilizing AI coding assistants such as Claude, GitLab Copilot or Cursor
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI tools across the entire software development life cycle
• Deep understanding of Micro Frontend architecture (splitting apps, team ownership, runtime composition)
• Practical Module Federation knowledge (host/remote setup, exposed modules, runtime vs compile-time dependencies)
• Rspack/Rsbuild and Modern.js expertise
• Design Systems expertise (building/maintaining a shared UI component library (buttons, modals, forms, tables, accessibility) for consistency across independent apps)
• Performance optimization