Principal Frontend Engineer

Posted 6 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Canada
Remote or Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Digital Media • Enterprise Web • Marketing Tech • Software
The everything app, for work. One app for projects, knowledge, conversations, and more. Get more done faster—together
The Role
Lead the long-term frontend architecture strategy across ClickUp’s product surfaces. Design scalable, performant systems using Angular and React, solve cross-team challenges involving performance and state management, establish quality and testing standards, mentor senior engineers, and influence technical roadmaps and organizational decisions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring strong architectural judgment, collaboration, and expertise in large-scale web applications.
Summary Generated by Built In

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

Role Overview

We’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp. In this role, you will lead architectural strategy across major product surfaces, solve company-wide frontend challenges, and influence how teams build and ship at scale. You will partner deeply with engineering, product, design, backend, and integrations leadership to ensure ClickUp’s frontend systems remain fast, reliable, and adaptable as the business grows.

 

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and implementation levels, especially in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

 
What You’ll Do
  • Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments

  • Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular and React that support rapid product development

  • Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity

  • Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems

  • Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization

  • Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems

  • Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality

  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards

  • Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnership

 
Qualifications
  • 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications

  • Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems

  • Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users

  • Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture

  • Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas

  • Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments

  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels

  • Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations

  • Experience with testing infrastructure and ability to define testing strategies for large scale features changes.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time. Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time. Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

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Skills Required

  • 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications
  • Expert-level experience with Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
  • Proven experience architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users
  • Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture
  • Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas
  • Strong judgment balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments
  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels
  • Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations
  • Experience with testing infrastructure and defining testing strategies for large-scale feature changes

ClickUp Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ClickUp and has not been reviewed or approved by ClickUp.

  • Strong & Reliable Incentives Feedback suggests variable compensation is attractive for high performers in customer-facing roles, with healthy on-target-earnings ranges. This indicates incentives are structured to reward above-target performance.
  • Healthcare Strength Feedback suggests health coverage is robust, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options and low out-of-pocket costs reported by some. Wellness and mental health programs further bolster the offering.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Feedback suggests generous or flexible PTO and parental leave are core parts of the package, supported by remote-friendly practices. Additional elements like volunteer time off and paid holidays broaden the time-off mix.

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The Company
HQ: San Diego, CA
1,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

ClickUp is the world’s only all-in-one productivity platform that flexes to the way people want to work. It replaces all individual workplace productivity tools with a single, unified platform that includes project management, document collaboration, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and AI. With our headquarters based in San Diego and a rapidly expanding global presence, we are shaping the future of work. Join our team at ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide, and help millions of users be more productive - saving them at least one day every week.

Why Work With Us

ClickUppers are highly passionate, energetic, and unique people that align in the mission of saving people time and making the world more productive. We're the newcomer, the underdog, but that's where we thrive. Let’s make the world more productive!

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