Principal Software Architect, Frontend

🕒 May 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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💻 Frontend Engineer / Web Developer

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Operative

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

☁️ SaaS

💰 $11M Debt Financing on 2014-03

Media • SaaS • Advertising

Operative is a company that provides intelligent media management solutions designed to optimize advertising management and revenue growth for media companies globally. Operative offers advanced tools for advertising sales management, content rights and management, reporting, analytics, and insights. Their platforms, such as AOS and Operative. One, integrate seamlessly with existing technologies to provide a unified solution for modern media operations including streaming media, digital publishing, and retail media networks. By leveraging AI and data-driven solutions, Operative aims to help media companies navigate the complexities of converged advertising and content management in an era of digital transformation.

📋 Description

• Define and own the frontend architecture, including component models, state management patterns, build tooling, performance standards, and testing strategy • Collaborate closely with UX and Product teams to develop a deep understanding of design systems and user workflows, translating that understanding into clean, maintainable implementation patterns • Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development practices within the frontend engineering team, and contribute to defining the user experience layer for Operative's agentic AI capabilities • Establish and uphold code quality standards through design reviews, tooling, documentation, and hands-on example • Identify and drive high-impact improvements to the existing frontend independently, from assessment through delivery • Serve as the primary technical liaison between design and engineering disciplines, ensuring alignment between intent and execution • Provide mentorship and technical guidance to frontend engineers across the broader global team • Make and take ownership of architectural decisions, communicating rationale clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 10 or more years of software engineering experience with significant depth in frontend architecture and development • Demonstrated experience owning the frontend across its full lifecycle, including architecture, standards, delivery, and ongoing stewardship • Prior experience providing senior technical leadership within distributed or globally distributed engineering teams • Proven ability to establish durable technical patterns and standards, not merely contribute to feature delivery • Background in SaaS product development where reliability, scalability, and user experience are interdependent concerns. • Strong proficiency across Angular, TypeScript, CSS / Design Systems, State Management, Build Tooling, Testing (E2E + Unit), Web Performance, REST / GraphQL, Micro Frontends, Accessibility (a11y), Module Federation. • Experience with other modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue is welcomed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and scope of impact • Flexible remote-first work environment