Director of Engineering

Job Description: Engineering Director - UI / Frontend

About the Role

We are looking at someone to come and lead the UI/UX tech teams at super.money, setting strategy for scalable front-end architecture, driving innovation (React, React Native, etc.), ensuring quality through best practices (Agile, CI/CD), managing budgets/roadmaps, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver user-centric, high-performance interfaces. If you have experience handling large scale customer experiences, enhancing customer engagement, reducing performance times - these would be highly desirable traits.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

- Define the long-term UI engineering strategy across mobile and web platforms.

- Build, scale, and mentor high-performing UI engineering teams.

- Partner with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering for seamless delivery.

- Drive coding standards, UI performance benchmarks, and engineering excellence.

- Own roadmap for UI frameworks, reusable component libraries, and design systems.

Technical Ownership

- Provide deep technical direction across React Native and React.js.

- Architect scalable UI systems ensuring modularity and performance.

- Oversee TypeScript adoption, state management, and performance tuning.

- Standardize testing, accessibility, and security practices.

- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies where relevant.

Execution & Delivery

- Ensure delivery of high-quality UI features with predictable timelines.

- Improve engineering velocity via CI/CD and automation.

- Maintain UI code quality through review systems and governance.

- Lead initiatives on performance, UI consistency, and mobile-web convergence.

Required Experience & Skills

Technical

- 13+ years of frontend/mobile experience; 3+ in leadership.

- Hands-on expertise in React Native, React.js, TypeScript.

- Strong understanding of component design, rendering optimization, and architecture.

- Experience with design systems and platform-level UI frameworks.

- Understanding of backend APIs, GraphQL/REST.

Leadership

- Proven success leading 20–40+ person UI teams in a product company.

- Strong technical decision-making ability.

- Track record of hiring and mentoring engineering managers and senior engineers.

- Experience driving performance, reliability, and UX metrics.

Good to Have

- Micro-frontends, Next.js, Expo ecosystem.

- Experience with analytics, A/B testing.

- CI/CD for mobile apps (Fastlane, App Center).

- Experience building large-scale consumer products.

Why Join Us

- Build UI that impacts millions of users.

- Lead engineering excellence across mobile and web.

- Shape engineering culture and standards at scale.