Lead Frontend Engineer

We’re looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to set the technical direction for Ember’s frontend while building products used by passengers, drivers and internal teams. This is a senior individual contributor role, not a line management role. You’ll own how our frontend works: architecture, framework choices, component patterns, styling, testing, performance, accessibility and maintainability. Most of your work will be hands-on frontend product development, across customer-facing products and the internal tools that run our operation. We’re a small team and our best projects often cross boundaries, so you should be happy making small backend changes or touching our apps, when that’s the cleanest way to solve the problem. About Ember We're building the future of public transport — convenient, affordable, connected and zero-emission. Our goal is to make it easier and more enjoyable to get from A to B with Ember than it is with your own car. Ember is a tech company, not a traditional bus operator. We've built a platform that coordinates our entire operation – everything from monitoring vehicles and controlling chargers to selling tickets and calculating ETAs. This allows us to use electric buses more intensively than anyone else in the world, leading to a massive reduction in emissions. It also helps us provide a much better passenger experience, with innovative features like demand-responsive stops. We’re still tiny, with a handful of routes and ~100 buses. The challenge is to sc