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.