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.