Frontend Infra Team Lead

Description:

For many of us there’s that one podcast we never miss, and video content is part of our daily routine, whether it’s professional or personal. But how many of us truly understand the effort that goes on behind the scenes? Here at Riverside, we know it well. That’s exactly why we built an AI-powered platform that helps content creators, podcasters, marketeers, and more at major brands like Netflix, Disney, Google, and Microsoft to create high-quality content with ease.

Riverside’s technology streamlines the entire content creation process, turning ideas into professional-grade content with the highest production standards, without requiring expensive equipment or external services. The secret? AI-driven tools that replace traditional production roles like editing, directing, and design, automating the entire process at the click of a button.

About the The FED Infra Team

The FED Infra Team at Riverside is dedicated to accelerating all engineering teams by providing robust standards, dependable infrastructure, and sophisticated tooling. Our core mission is to enable the business by eliminating technical barriers, allowing product teams to innovate rapidly without the overhead of duplicating efforts. Furthermore, the team manages the infrastructure for a key high-performance page - the users dashboard - facilitating the integration of micro-frontends by other teams, and maintains our centralized React component library.

On your day to day

As the Frontend Infra Team Lead, you will spearhead our frontend architecture, setting the standard for consistency, quality, and performance. You will design scalable solutions, optimize developer workflows, and navigate complex architectural decisions. This role blends hands-on coding with mentorship, empowering you to make Riverside’s engineering faster, smoother, and more resilient.

What Will Make You Stand Out?

• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience, including at least 2 years of team leadership, with a strong emphasis on modern frontend engineering.
• Proven experience leading or implementing microfrontend's architecture in production environments
• Deep understanding of modern frontend frameworks and ecosystems with React.js.
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
• A proven ability to leverage AI coding assistants effectively without compromising code quality or introducing technical debt.
• Strong architectural thinking, with the ability to design, evaluate, and optimize complex distributed systems
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment
• Solid knowledge of software engineering best practices, design patterns, and a strong commitment to high-quality, maintainable code

Bottom line? If you wanna take part in transforming how people and businesses share their stories globally, Riverside’s your place. The work is challenging, the culture is fast-paced, and the people are exceptionally brilliant. And if that’s not enough, we guarantee that your ideas will genuinely make an impact.