Tech Lead (Front End - React)

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>An Introduction to Codal</strong></p> <p>Codal is an award-winning web design and development consultancy that helps enterprise organizations solve complex problems and accelerate growth through elegant, data-driven digital solutions. Our areas of expertise include application modernization, eCommerce, UX/UI design, product strategy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.</p> <p>At Codal, you will collaborate with some of the most innovative organizations in the world and work on cutting-edge technologies that push the boundaries of design and software development. We promote long-term success, not just for our clients but for our team, helping you develop a professional roadmap that takes your career to new heights.</p></div><p><strong>Experience Range</strong></p> <p>Overall experience: 8+ years</p> <p><strong>Job Location</strong> - Ahmedabad, Gujarat (WFO)</p> <p><strong>Who you’ll be working with</strong></p> <p>We build the solutions dreamed up by the product and design teams. Our goal is to deliver working software every two weeks. We are a large team that spans across three global offices, but we collaborate and integrate front- and back-end components and interfaces to provide a user-centered experience through web and mobile platforms.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>This is a hands-on role that will require coding and regular code reviews</li> <li>Own frontend engineering quality, standards, and delivery outcomes across projects.</li> <li>Act as the final decision-maker for frontend architecture, tooling, and implementation approaches.</li> <li>Establish and enforce standardized frontend patterns for Shopify, BigCommerce, and CMS implementations.</li> <li>Drive simplicity-first solutions, eliminating over-engineering and reducing long-term technical debt.</li> <li>Create and maintain reusable components, templates, and reference architectures to enable repeatable delivery.</li> <li>Provide hands-on leadership on active projects to unblock teams, correct direction, and ensure on-time delivery.</li> <li>Improve speed, predictability, and quality of incremental software releases.</li> <li>Partner with PMs and Client Principals to support engineering-led discovery and right-sized solutions.</li> <li>Reinforce a top-down engineering ownership model, supporting managers with clear guardrails and standards.</li> <li>Raise the engineering culture bar around accountability, urgency, and craftsmanship.</li> <li>Own frontend observability and performance visibility, ensuring teams proactively monitor and improve Core Web Vitals, runtime errors, and user experience metrics.</li> <li>Ensure frontend builds are analytics-ready, with consistent event tracking, performance instrumentation, and data quality standards.</li> <li>Drive frontend decisions that positively impact SEO, CRO, and overall funnel performance in collaboration with Product, Marketing, and Clients.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll need to be successful (Requirements)</strong></p> <p><strong>Must have skills:</strong></p> <ul> <li>8+ years of hands-on frontend engineering experience</li> <li>Client-facing experience, preferably in a consulting setting</li> <li>Deep expertise in React and Next.js in production environments</li> <li>Demonstrated ownership of frontend engineering standards and quality across multiple projects or teams</li> <li>Ability to make and enforce clear architectural and implementation decisions</li> <li>Hands-on mindset with willingness to step into active builds when standards or delivery are at risk</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication, including client- and leadership-facing discussions.</li> <li>Strong understanding of frontend performance optimization, including Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse metrics, and real-user monitoring (RUM).</li> <li>Experience implementing and governing Google Analytics (GA4) or similar analytics platforms, including event taxonomy and data consistency.</li> <li>Solid understanding of technical SEO fundamentals (rendering strategies, metadata, structured data, page speed, crawlability).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Should have skills:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience delivering CMS-driven builds (headless or traditional)</li> <li>Strong understanding of API-driven frontend architectures (REST and/or GraphQL)</li> <li>Proven track record in improving speed, predictability, and quality of frontend software deliverables. </li> <li>Experience partnering with Product or Design during discovery and solutioning</li> <li>Familiarity with frontend testing strategies, code review practices, and CI/CD workflows</li> <li>Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising engineering culture and accountability.</li> <li>Experience collaborating on CRO initiatives, including A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and data-driven UI improvements.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with frontend observability tools such as Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, or similar error and performance monitoring platforms.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have skills:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with ERP-integrated frontend solutions</li> <li>Prior ownership of frontend accelerators or internal…