Engineering Team Lead

Engineering Team Lead (React) (LATAM) – Lateral Group Join the Engineering Team Lead (React) (LATAM) role at Lateral Group. Lateral stands for technology excellence. We’re a profitable, award‑winning design and technology company with over 20 years of experience launching bold ventures and transforming businesses. A globally distributed team of 200+ experts united by a shared purpose: the continuous pursuit of quality. Our mission is simple: design and build great products. We Do Things Differently – our way of working is defined by a bias for action & results, discipline in time, budget and quality, deep care, integrity, continuous improvement, agility, and ownership. What You’ll Do As an Engineering Team Lead (Frontend React) at Lateral, you will lead a team of frontend engineers responsible for building fast, accessible, reliable user experiences for a global marketplace. You’ll be both a technical leader and a hands‑on contributor, helping the team move quickly while maintaining high quality. Partner Deeply with the Client & Key Stakeholders Serve as the primary frontend technical voice in client conversations, articulating decisions, constraints, and opportunities clearly. Communicate proactively with product managers, designers, user researchers, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and remove ambiguity. Represent engineering during roadmap, planning, and prioritization discussions, providing clear feasibility input and realistic timelines. Advocate for the frontend perspective in cross‑functional decisions while balancing product goals, technical needs, and user experience. Explain complex UI/UX trade‑offs in ways that help non‑engineers make smart decisions quickly. Build strong trust with the client through reliability, transparency, and consistent follow‑through. Surface risks early, guide expectation‑setting, and help stakeholders understand the impact of changes before they are made. Lead Cross‑Disciplinary Communication & Alignment Ensure smooth communication between frontend, backend, QA, design, content, and product teams. Lead discussions on design fidelity, performance constraints, usability risks, and component architecture. Keep everyone aligned on UI standards, UX guidelines, shared components, and best practices. Drive clarity in requirements: ensuring they are actionable, testable, and aligned with user goals. Promote a communication culture that is concise, open, respectful, and anchored in problem‑solving. Lead the Frontend Engineering Team Mentor, coach, review, and support React engineers. Set engineering standards, enforce best practices, and guide architectural choices. Help the team stay focused, aligned, and productive. Contribute Hands‑On Build and maintain high‑quality React applications using TypeScript, modern tooling, and scalable component patterns. Own critical UI flows: search, catalog, discovery, checkout, dashboards, or marketplace tools. Improve performance, accessibility, and design implementation fidelity. Own Quality & Delivery Partner with QA, backend, design, and product teams to define high‑quality deliverables. Ensure components are tested, reusable, and maintainable. Advocate for performance budgets, error monitoring, and robust testing practices. Partner with Product & Design Translate product requirements into intuitive and scalable UI architectures. Spot UX issues early and give thoughtful, informed feedback. Represent engineering interests in product planning. Improve the Team & Codebase Evolve design systems, component libraries, frontend tooling, and documentation. Improve developer experience, CI pipelines, and code clarity. Foster a supportive, high‑performing culture. How We Measure Success In the first 2 weeks: understand the marketplace frontend architecture, deliver your first component or fix, and establish open, clear communication with the team. In the first 3 months: own the technical direction of a major UI area, ship reliably, improve frontend code quality, performance or consistency, and provide structured feedback. After 3 months: become the go‑to person for architecture decisions, coach others, introduce velocity‑boosting improvements, and elevate overall craft and quality. What We’re Looking For Must‑Haves 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead role. Deep expertise with React, TypeScript, modern state management, and frontend build systems. Experience leading engineers, reviewing code, and making architectural decisions. Strong grasp of performance optimization, accessibility, and frontend testing. Clear communication and organizational skills, able to align cross‑functional teams. An ownership mindset and a bias for action. Backend services knowledge. Bonus Points Experience with large‑scale e‑commerce or marketplace frontends. Experience with design systems, Storybook, or component libraries. Exposure to Node.js, Next.js, SSR/SSG, or micro‑frontends. Experience with analytics, feature flags, and experiment frameworks. Why You’ll Love Working Here Real Impact: meaningful products that make a measurable difference. Remote‑First, Office Friendly: work from anywhere; we encourage collaboration when near an office. An Outstanding Team: talented, kind, hard‑working people—no egos, no politics. Growth: support in growing your craft, exploring new paths, and stepping into greater responsibility at your own pace. A Culture of Excellence: care deeply about doing the right thing; no burnout, no crunch. Variety & Stability: profitable, independent, and over a decade strong; every project brings a fresh challenge. This Role Might Not Be for You We want to respect your time by being clear about what this role isn’t. Skip this opportunity if you: Prefer well‑defined structure, clear hierarchy, and swim lanes; you may find our self‑managed style challenging. Distributed work isn’t your thing; async communication and proactive work without a nearby manager may be difficult. Feedback doesn’t excite you; we’re obsessed with quality and give nitpicky feedback to refine work until excellent. Change makes you uncomfortable; we’re scaling and maturing, priorities shift, processes evolve, and ambiguity may feel bumpy. However, if this sounds like fuel, we’d love to talk How to Apply and What to Expect in the Interview Process Our hiring process is structured as a sequence of steps. Moving forward is based on how well the previous step goes. We will always Let you know clearly what the next step is. Share updates and feedback wherever possible. Invite questions if anything feels unclear. Step 1: Express Your Interest – send your resume, a short note about what excites you, links to work. Share only non‑proprietary info. If you’re sharing team projects, state your specific contributions. Step 2: Talent Partner Conversation – structured discussion to delve into career, motivations, alignment, logistics, and lifestyle. Step 3: Technical interview – collaborative session focusing on real‑world scenarios. Step 4: Take Home Assignment – practical demonstration of skills, paid or live depending on role. Step 5: Operational interview – prioritize, collaborate, ship, and iterate. Step 6: Offer – comprehensive offer detailing compensation and pertinent info. Join us and let’s build something extraordinary. #J-18808-Ljbffr