ClickUp
Principal Frontend Engineer
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Canada only
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still checked daily, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Canada only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $200k–$275k a year, a typical range taken from 596 lead-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Canada. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Canada, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Canada
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀
Role Overview
We’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp. In this role, you will lead architectural strategy across major product surfaces, solve company-wide frontend challenges, and influence how teams build and ship at scale. You will partner deeply with engineering, product, design, backend, and integrations leadership to ensure ClickUp’s frontend systems remain fast, reliable, and adaptable as the business grows.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and implementation levels, especially in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do
Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments
Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular and React that support rapid product development
Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity
Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems
Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization
Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems
Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality
Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards
Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnership
Qualifications
10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications
Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users
Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture
Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas
Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments
Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels
Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations
Experience with testing infrastructure and ability to define testing strategies for large scale features changes.
Requirements
- ·10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications
- ·Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
- ·Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users
- ·Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture
- ·Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at ClickUp, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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