Job ID: r19808
What You'll Do:
The UI Foundations team is responsible for the frontend platform that powers all web applications at Criteo. We build and maintain the core frameworks, design systems, and tooling that enable a consistent, scalable, and high-quality user experience across all products.
Our mission is to improve developer experience, ensure UI consistency, and enable frontend engineers across the company to build faster and better through shared libraries, standards, and tooling.
As a Frontend Platform Engineering Lead, you will lead a team of six engineers responsible for building and evolving the UI foundations used across Criteo.
You will define and drive the technical vision for frontend architecture, design systems, and developer experience at scale.
Platform Ownership & Engineering
Own and evolve the Criteo frontend platform (Angular SDK, Generic Shell, Design System).
Build and maintain reusable UI components and shared frontend libraries.
Ensure consistency, scalability, and performance across all frontend applications.
Technical Leadership
Define frontend architecture strategy and long-term technical roadmap.
Collaborate with UX/UI designers to evolve and improve the design system.
Drive adoption of frontend standards and best practices across engineering teams.
Team Leadership
Manage and grow a team of 6 engineers.
Support career development, mentoring, and hiring.
Foster a strong engineering culture focused on quality and collaboration.
Developer Experience & Quality
Improve frontend developer experience across the organization.
Optimize web application performance, testing strategies, and scalability.
Stay aligned with modern frontend ecosystem evolution.
Tech Environment : TypeScript, Angular, CSS, Cypress, Playwright, Git, and related frontend tooling (with occasional C# integration).
Who You Are:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
6+ years of experience in frontend engineering, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership or people management role.
Strong expertise in building scalable frontend applications and reusable UI component systems.
Deep experience with modern frontend architecture, including component libraries, design systems, and shared UI platforms.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Angular, HTML, and CSS.
Experience building and maintaining large-scale frontend codebases and improving developer experience.
Solid understanding of web performance, accessibility, and UI scalability principles.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, frontend testing frameworks, and modern build tooling.
Leadership & Collaboration
Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers in a frontend or platform team.
Experience collaborating closely with UX/UI designers to build and evolve design systems.
Ability to define technical vision and drive adoption of frontend standards across multiple teams.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across an organization.
Nice to Have
Experience owning or contributing to a design system or frontend platform at scale.
Familiarity with monorepo architectures and large-scale frontend tooling ecosystems.
Experience improving developer experience (DX) for frontend engineers.
Exposure to performance optimization of large web applications.
Experience in distributed or multi-team frontend environments.
We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!
Who We Are:
We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.
At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.
We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.
What We Offer:
🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.
Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.
