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 r...