Swiss Re

Frontend Engineering Lead

Swiss Re
Bengaluru/Bangalore
Not disclosed
Work from OfficeWork from Office
Full TimeFull Time
Min. 5 yearsMin. 5 years

Job Description

Frontend Engineering Lead

Frontend Engineering Lead (React / Angular, Full-Stack Optional)

 

We are looking for a Frontend Engineering Lead to drive the development of modern, scalable web applications using React as the primary framework, while supporting and evolving existing Angular-based solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role, combining frontend development, delivery ownership, and team leadership. The position focuses on building high-performance, maintainable, and modular UI platforms in a complex enterprise environment.

 

Key Responsibilities

Frontend Architecture & Design

  • Define and implement modern frontend architectures using React (component-driven, modular design)
  • Establish and evolve UI standards and reusable components
  • Lead modernization initiatives, including transitioning legacy Angular implementations
  • Ensure solutions are scalable and decoupled
  • Leverage design-to-code and AI-assisted tooling where appropriate to accelerate UI delivery while maintaining quality

Delivery Ownership

  • Own end-to-end frontend delivery
  • Translate requirements into technical designs
  • Drive backlog, planning, and quality
  • Ensure timely delivery

Engineering Excellence

  • Enforce best practices in:
    • Code quality
    • Testing (unit / integration / e2e)
    • Performance optimization
    • Usability, accessibility, and reliability

Performance, Scalability & Data Handling

  • Design UIs for large datasets
  • Implement:
    • Efficient data fetching and caching
    • Pagination (offset / cursor)
    • Lazy loading and virtualization
  • Optimize rendering, memory usage, and latency

Search, Indexing & Backend Data Integration

  • Integrate with indexed / search-based backends
  • Enable fast filtering, aggregation, and retrieval
  • Collaborate on API / query design aligned with frontend needs

Full-Stack Collaboration

  • Familiarity with APIs and service design is beneficial

Team Leadership

  • Lead and mentor engineers
  • Conduct code reviews
  • Support hiring and capability building
  • Foster ownership and quality

 

Required Skills & Experience

Frontend Expertise

  • Strong experience with React and modern frontend development
  • Working knowledge of Angular
    • Angular version upgrades and migration experience. Especially Angular 20.x
  • Deep understanding of:
    • JavaScript / TypeScript
    • State management patterns
    • HTML5, CSS3
    • Experience translating Figma designs into high-quality, production-ready UI components with strong fidelity and consistency

Performance & Data Handling

  • Experience building UIs for large datasets
  • Strong expertise in:
    • Pagination
    • Rendering optimization (memoization, virtualization)
    • Efficient API usage

Search & Data Retrieval

  • Experience with:
    • Search-driven architectures
    • Filtering and aggregation
    • Async data handling and eventual consistency

Architecture & Design

  • Experience designing scalable frontend systems
  • Strong understanding of modular component architectures

Engineering Practices

  • Experience with:
    • Version control
    • CI/CD pipelines
    • Testing frameworks
  • Strong engineering discipline

AI-Assisted Development

  • Ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, intelligent completion, automated testing support) to improve engineering productivity
  • Ability to apply AI pragmatically to accelerate development while maintaining code quality, security, and maintainability
  • Ability to evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities to enhance frontend development workflows and developer experience

 

About Swiss Re

 

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

 

We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.

 

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Reference Code: 138548 

 

 

Experience Level

Senior Level

Job role

Work location
Work locationBangalore, KA, IN
Department
DepartmentSoftware Engineering
Role / Category
Role / CategoryFrontend Development
Employment type
Employment typeFull Time
Shift
ShiftDay Shift

Job requirements

Experience
ExperienceMin. 5 years

About company

Name
NameSwiss Re
Job posted by Swiss Re

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