Lead Platform Engineer
Hybrid · Lead · A month ago
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Quick Take
Lighthouse is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to lead frontend platform initiatives, drive migration from Ember to React, and build AI-assisted tooling. This hybrid role in Brussels offers the chance to shape the frontend infrastructure for a fast-growing AI company.
🏢 About Lighthouse
Lighthouse is an AI platform revolutionizing commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. With $370M in Series C funding and over $100M in ARR, they provide real-time intelligence to hotels. Their platform is trusted by tens of thousands of hotels across 185 countries.
🎯 The Role
As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will lead frontend platform initiatives that help all frontend work move faster without compromising quality. This is a hands-on builder and owner role focused on accelerating Lighthouse’s migration from Ember to React, strengthening the design system, and improving the tooling, education, and guardrails that help engineers and AI agents produce high-quality frontend code.
🛠️ Tech Stack
- Core: React, TypeScript, Ember
- State Management: TanStack
- Styling: CSS modules, Tailwind
- Tooling: Vite, pnpm, Gitlab, Google Cloud Platform, Astro, Claude Code
- Other: Python, Go
💼 What You'll Do
- Lead frontend platform initiatives to accelerate migration from Ember to React
- Strengthen the design system and improve tooling, education, and guardrails
- Own AI-assisted frontend tooling and improve the frontend harness for safe contributions
- Set direction for important initiatives, turning broad goals into actionable plans
- Establish foundations for generative UI using trusted design-system components
✅ What You'll Need
- Senior-level frontend engineering experience
- Strong professional experience with React and TypeScript
- Expert fluency with at least one AI development tool
- Strong project-management habits to organize work and communicate progress
- Comfortable working beyond application code (shared tooling, cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines)
- Clear communication and trusted relationships with product teams
- Pragmatic, product-minded, and able to defend frontend best practices
🌟 Nice to Have
- Product engineering experience
- Experience with design systems, particularly as foundations for reusable product experiences or AI-generated interfaces
- Experience with large-scale framework migrations
Why This Role?
This is a curated frontend role from Lighthouse. Every listing on OnlyFrontendJobs is hand-picked for frontend relevance and quality. The tech stack leans on React, TypeScript, Ember.
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