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.