Principal Frontend Engineer

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• 16” MacBook Pro
• Moving Expenses
• $200/mo commuter benefits
• Team lunches each week
• 401(k) match up to 2%
• Unlimited snacks, kombucha, and cold brew
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• ClickUp swag
• Teammate recognition rewards
• Flexible PTO

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