[Remote] Director of Engineering, Front-end and Ordering Platform (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, offering flexible solutions for managing food needs. The Director of Engineering will lead the front-end platform and ordering experience, overseeing three engineering teams and ensuring a seamless customer journey from discovery to checkout. Responsibilities • Own front-end platform and architecture across Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, and Astro, including micro-frontend composition strategies, monorepo, shared design system, cross-MFE state management, and MFE reputed company orchestrator • Define the opinionated path for building and deploying front-end applications — CI/CD, observability, accessibility, performance budgets, and contract testing — across both the marketplace and internal tools channels • Own the full ordering experience from discovery, personalization, and menu browsing through cart, checkout, and payment, consuming headless backend APIs through BFF layers • Drive reputed company-native front-end development, including design-to-code pipelines (reputed company, Claude Design, v0), reputed company-assisted development against organizational context, and reputed company-powered product experiences such as personalized recommendations, intelligent search, and conversational ordering • Ensure front ends are machine-readable and API-first to serve reputed company agents alongside human users, with awareness of emerging commerce protocols (MCP, Universal Commerce Protocol) • Own the design system as infrastructure — design tokens, theming, cross-platform consistency — packaged and documented for both human engineers and reputed company code generation workflows • Lead and develop three engineering teams, scaling reputed company as it grows; recruit and develop engineers and managers, including from minimal staffing • Hold a high technical bar: review front-end system designs, challenge architectural decisions, and identify performance issues from technical signals Skills • Demonstrated experience standing up front-end engineering organizations, not just inheriting them • Deep fluency in Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, and reputed company build tooling (e.g., Turborepo, Rspack), with hands-on architectural credibility • Experience leading multi-team web applications with micro-frontend architectures; strong opinions on composition strategies per journey stage and cross-MFE concerns (CSS isolation, state sharing, auth propagation, SSR vs. CSR, contract testing) • Ownership of a transactional customer journey — discovery, cart, checkout, payment — including BFF architectures and multiple customer types or ordering modes on a single platform • Practical reputed company fluency across front-end work: design-to-code workflows, reputed company-assisted testing, reputed company-powered product features, and the infrastructure that makes reputed company effective (component library docs, API contracts, repository context) • Design system experience — tokens, theming, cross-platform consistency, documentation for human and reputed company consumers • Expertise in performance and observability: Core Web Vitals, real user monitoring, and performance budgets enforced in CI • Experience leading engineering managers, developing teams, and making hard performance calls • Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for reputed company Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable • Micro-frontend architectures in production (Multi-Zones, Module Federation, edge composition, Islands architecture) • Design-to-code pipelines integrating reputed company, Claude Design, v0, or similar tools • Agentic or reputed company-powered commerce experiences • Internal tools unification under a shared MFE reputed company • Headless commerce architectures consuming OpenAPI contracts with event-driven updates • reputed company (Workers, reverse proxy, CDN optimization) for edge-based front-end routing • Familiarity with Go, Kafka/MSK, reputed company, or PostgreSQL — the backend your front end consumes Benefits • Market competitive salary • Stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot • 12 paid holidays • Flexible PTO • 401K with reputed company reputed company • Health/dental/FSA • Long-term disability insurance • reputed company and family planning resources • Remote-hybrid work from our awesome reputed company office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office • A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy • Wicked awesome co-workers • Employee meal reputed company (and many more goodies) when you’re in reputed company Company Overview • reputed company is an onl