Frontend Tech Lead (React)

Ideals is a global B2B SaaS product company recognized as the most highly rated and customer-centric brand in the secure business collaboration market. Trusted by over 2,000,000 users from 300,000 companies globally, we help people run high-stakes processes and make important decisions with less stress, higher quality, and shorter hours.

Ideals Virtual Data Room (VDR): Secure document sharing and collaboration for due diligence, fundraising, corporate reporting, licensing, clinical trials, and other complex transactions.

Ideals Board: Board and leadership collaboration platform for faster, safer, and more compliant decision-making.

As a Frontend Tech Lead (React), you’ll be a hands-on technical leader in a cross-functional product team building the Ideals Board. You will lead by example in engineering craftsmanship: owning frontend architecture decisions, raising delivery quality, and helping the team move faster with confidence.

• Own frontend technical direction for a key area of Ideals Board: architecture, patterns, and long-term maintainability

• Make the design system work properly in real product development: ensure consistency, improve developer experience, and close gaps between design and implementation

• Lead redesigns of key product parts end-to-end (technical + UX): help shape solutions with Product Design and deliver robust implementations

• Raise quality ownership across the team: testing strategy, code review culture, definition of done, and proactive refactoring where it matters

• Drive technical design: write and review technical solutions, identify risks early, and align the team on implementation approaches

• Be a strong hands-on contributor: deliver features, tackle complex tasks, debug production issues, and improve performance and reliability

• Mentor and multiply: coach frontend engineers, share best practices, and grow overall team expertise and collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Product managers, Designers, Backend, QA, and DevOps Engineers to ensure smooth delivery and a great user experience

• 6+ years of strong hands-on experience building production web applications with React + TypeScript

• Proven ability to lead technical design: decomposition, trade-offs, and aligning stakeholders on a clear approach

• Experience building or scaling design systems/component libraries, and enforcing consistency in a real product

• Strong engineering fundamentals: maintainability, performance, accessibility, security-minded UI development, and pragmatic quality practices

• Confidence with modern frontend tooling and delivery: testing (unit/integration/e2e), CI/CD, observability, and effective debugging

• Leadership through influence: mentoring, constructive feedback, driving alignment, and creating clarity in ambiguous areas

• A quality mindset: you care about outcomes, user impact, and leaving systems better than you found them

• English at the B2 level

• Experience with B2B SaaS products and high-trust environments (security/compliance-sensitive workflows)

• Familiarity with a broader stack and ecosystem (e.g., AWS/Kubernetes, backend integration patterns, API design collaboration)

• Experience running frontend initiatives that span multiple teams (shared components, platform improvements, standards)

We highly value our people, so we will empower you with all the resources and support to help you reach your full potential.

• Remote-first flexibility to shape your ideal workday

• Home workplace budget

• Resilient home budget for Ukraine-based teammates

• Resilient office in Kyiv & co-working expense coverage

• Individual IT budget for extra equipment

• Top-tier tech and AI-powered tools

• Access to Ideals Academy with numerous courses

• Investment in external learning and development activities

• Guidance in Personal Development Plan creation

• Professional literature and subscriptions coverage

• Support of your passion as a speaker or writer

• Internal talent mobility opportunities

• Medical insurance and Wellness Package for sports activities

• Full coverage of mental health sessions for Ukrainian teammates

• Funding for sports competitions

• 20 business days of paid time off per year

• Unlimited health-related time-off

• Team-building offline and online events

• Budget for meetups with your local team

• Generous internal referral program

Commitment, Excellence, Collaboration, Trust and Care are core values to the Ideals team. For us, these are the principles that every Idealer lives and breathes. We are on the lookout for like-minded individuals who share our values. By doing so, we create a team where talents feel at ease and work to the best of their abilities.

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Ideals is an equal opportunity employer

Ideals is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people from all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, or citizenship.