US Mobile
Lead Frontend Engineer
New York City · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$13,461 more — $193,461 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,461 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Scale our systems - help us grow to tens of millions of customers and connected devices.
Responsibilities
- Build a state-driven UI that adapts seamlessly to network-specific quirks
- Support legacy and new plans simultaneously
- Create elegant, highly accessible (a11y-first) interfaces that work across platforms
- Lead and contribute to building modern frontend features using React, TypeScript, and CSS
- Design and build UI components for both web and React Native applications
- Architect scalable systems to support millions of user interactions across different networks
- Collaborate closely with backend, product, and design teams to drive elegant, data-informed solutions
- Partner closely with Talent/Recruiting to define hiring needs, shape interview processes, and build out the frontend engineering team as we scale.
- Build and lead a team - hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing group of frontend engineers as we scale.
- Stay hands-on - architect and build fast, accessible, elegant web and mobile applications used by over 1 million subscribers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Comfort operating in a fast paced environment - wearing multiple hats across engineering, hiring, and cross-functional work
- Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and CSS-in-JS or equivalent styling approaches
- Experience with state management and data fetching libraries (e.g., Tanstack Query, Redux, Zustand)
- 12+ years of frontend engineering experience building production-grade UIs, including experience in a technical leadership or people management role
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing frontend engineers, including hiring and performance management
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions at a team or organizational level
- Strong stakeholder management skills - able to represent frontend engineering's perspective persuasively in front of executives, PMs, and cross-functional partners
- Experience partnering with Talent/Recruiting to build and scale engineering teams - defining roles, running hiring processes, and closing candidates
- A strong eye for UX/UI detail, accessibility, and responsive design
- Comfort dealing with complexity: legacy code, varied device support, and cross-platform consistency
- A self-starter who can define and deliver high-leverage solutions with minimal oversight
- Bonus: Experience with Rust, Mobile Development (React Native), or Telecom-related apps
- Benefits and Perks:
Nice to have
- one unified network open to any person and any device, worldwide.
- Connection without walls.
- All three major networks on one phone and one plan, plus home internet from Starlink.
- Custom fit plans at every price point.
- A network agnostic tech stack.
- Agile, cross-functional teams built on trust and mutual respect.
- This work isn't for everyone.
- If you work fast, flexibly, and collaboratively - without compromising standards - we want to hear from you.
Skills
- Shape technical direction - influence architecture, tooling, and roadmap decisions across frontend systems.
- Champion accessibility and performance - treat both as first-class concerns across the frontend org.
Compensation
- $180k-$240k
Benefits
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of frontend engineers - owning hiring decisions, performance management, career development, and day-to-day team health
Company info
- We're getting there by empowering customers.
This listing is sourced directly from US Mobile's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.