Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team

ABOUT YOU We are looking for a Tech Lead for the Frontend Platform Team provides technical leadership for Northwind Robotics ’s core platform responsible for powering all user-facing experiences. This role combines deep engineering expertise with people leadership, guiding a team of approximately eight developers. The Tech Lead shapes the platform’s architecture, improves developer workflows, and ensures high-quality, scalable solutions that support storefronts, widgets, and other monetization-focused experiences used across the Northwind Robotics ecosystem. This position requires strong frontend and platform-level experience, the ability to lead complex technical initiatives, and the capability to support predictable, reliable delivery. ABOUT US Northwind Robotics is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Northwind Robotics to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Northwind Robotics is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, Northwind Robotics operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game. For more information, visit xsolla.com . Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership for the Northwind Robotics frontend platform, defining architecture, coding standards, and long-term technical direction. Coach, mentor, and manage a team of ~8 developers, supporting professional growth and maintaining a strong engineering culture. Partner closely with the other Tech Leads working on the same platform to ensure architectural alignment, consistent standards, and unified decision-making. Oversee planning and execution of platform features and improvements, ensuring smooth delivery and high-quality outcomes. Drive modernization, refactoring, and performance enhancements to keep the platform scalable, maintainable, and aligned with product goals. Establish and enforce engineering best practices across coding, documentation, testing, and review processes. Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and platform teams to deliver cohesive partner-facing experiences. Ensure strong automated test coverage and reliable CI/CD workflows that reduce manual effort and improve delivery predictability. Leverage automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, improve consistency, and increase developer velocity. Own operational excellence, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements. Advocate for scalability, performance, security, and observability across the platform’s architecture and tooling. Identify technical risks, estimate complexity, and communicate trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders. Foster alignment with other engineering teams on shared services, APIs, rendering pipelines, and platform interfaces. Qualifications & Skills: 8+ years of software development experience with strong expertise in modern frontend engineering at scale. At least 3 years in a similar tech lead role. Deep hands-on knowledge of React including component architecture, SSR patterns, RSC, and complex UI data flows. Proficiency with Node.js and MongoDB for server-side functionality. Strong understanding of modern styling systems and theming approaches (vanilla-extract, styled-components, design tokens). Solid TypeScript practices, including strict typing, shared contracts, and schema validation (Zod or equivalent). Experience with Module Federation Good understanding of bundling and compilation, experience with webpack/rollup/vite/esbuild. Experience with automated testing frameworks (Vitest/Jest) and end-to-end testing (Playwright/Cypress). Good understanding of backend integration patterns (REST, GraphQL, RPC-style APIs). Experience with CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI or similar), private registries, and secure artifact handling. Proven ability to lead engineers, own architectural decisions, and manage delivery for complex platform projects. Nice to Have: Experience building platforms or tooling used across multiple frontend teams (design systems, template engines, configuration frameworks). Experience with react-native/mobile experience Knowledge of performance optimization strategies for client-side and server-side rendering. Understanding of accessibility, internationalization, and semantic UI design best practices. Experience developing SDKs, CLI tools, or developer-facing automation. Familiarity with event-driven UI flows, real-time interfaces, or edge-rendering strategies. Background improving developer platforms, observability stacks, or performance monitoring systems. Comfort with UI-as-data approaches and leve