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Lead Frontend Engineer

Litmus Automation - Toronto, ON, Canada - In-office - posted 2026-10-14

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Litmus Automation is building the data foundation that powers industrial AI. The company helps manufacturers access, structure, and use real-time data from machines, systems, and sensors at the edge, enabling large-scale operations to run in real time, reduce downtime, and optimize production. Trusted by global manufacturers and partners including Google, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, and Mitsubishi. In this role, you will lead the frontend engineering team responsible for Litmus Edge, the UI platform that industrial engineers use to see and control operations on factory floors worldwide. You'll own the technical architecture of a single Angular/TypeScript codebase that ships as multiple OEM-branded products, ensuring coherence and maintainability as features arrive from multiple engineering teams. Key responsibilities include: - Owning the front-end architecture of Litmus Edge UI, including Angular/TypeScript applications, shared component libraries, state and theming patterns, and configuration for multi-branded product delivery - Building and maintaining complex, data-heavy interfaces across configuration, marketplace, and analytics workflows while keeping them performant and maintainable - Mentoring team members, resolving complex technical issues, and making key architectural and design decisions alongside other lead engineers - Reviewing code and front-end contributions from across the engineering organization while remaining hands-on in development - Collaborating with Product, QA, and Backend Engineering to meet requirements, align UI with APIs, and maintain test automation hooks - Owning UI deployment processes, including component tagging for builds, branching conventions, code quality through unit testing, accessibility standards, cross-browser compatibility, and security vulnerability management You'll work on systems used by real customers in production with direct impact on product and company trajectory. The team is collaborative, curious, and low-ego, with a culture that values ownership, quick execution, and outcomes. REQUIREMENTS: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar field - 8+ years of frontend development experience, including 5+ years building production applications with Angular (v2+) and TypeScript - 3+ years of experience as a technical team lead - Strong command of modern front-end architecture, including component design, reactive state management (RxJS), and shared component libraries - Experience building and debugging complex, data-heavy interfaces such as real-time data applications, visualizations, or large editable grids - Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility, accessibility standards, and design principles - Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborative development workflows NICE TO HAVE: - Experience shipping white-labelled or OEM-branded products from a single codebase - Familiarity with OIDC/Keycloak authentication and role-based access control in the browser - Exposure to industrial automation, IIoT, or operational technology (OT) domains

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