Principal Front End Architect

🕒 April 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $138.7k - $236.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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💻 Frontend Engineer / Web Developer

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MeridianLink

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1998

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

☁️ SaaS

💰 $485M Post-IPO Debt on 2021-11

Fintech • Banking • SaaS

MeridianLink is a leading provider of SaaS solutions for financial institutions, specializing in loan origination systems and digital transformation technologies. Their end-to-end platform enhances digital experiences through integration with mortgage LOS, deposit account opening solutions, and more. MeridianLink's cloud-based systems improve efficiency in loan processing and collections, data-driven decision-making, and account management. The company collaborates with partners to expand market reach and drive growth in the fintech industry. With over 25 years of experience, MeridianLink is dedicated to supporting banks, credit unions, and other financial service providers through technology and business intelligence.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability) • Flexible paid time off • Paid holidays • 401(k) plan with company match • Remote work