Head of Frontend

📋 Description

• • Almedia Inc. is seeking a visionary and hands-on Head of Frontend to lead the charge in building and evolving our cutting-edge frontend ecosystem. This is not just another job; it's an opportunity to accelerate your career within a rapidly growing company that is on a mission to become Germany's second bootstrapped unicorn. As Europe's #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000), Almedia is revolutionizing the marketing landscape by empowering a community of over 60 million users with a novel approach to user acquisition for the world's leading companies.
• • As the Head of Frontend, you will embody an execution-first mindset coupled with a founder's spirit. Your primary responsibility will be to take complete ownership of our frontend development, from initial conception and architecture through to shipping robust, scalable solutions and continuously iterating on them. This role demands a leader who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and write code daily, leveraging deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, coupled with a comprehensive understanding of full-stack principles to architect systems that can scale seamlessly without introducing friction.
• • Your mission is multifaceted, focusing on driving technical excellence and strategic growth. You will be instrumental in defining and executing detailed technical roadmaps, translating ambitious product visions into actionable implementation plans. A critical aspect of your role will involve setting the highest engineering standards across the frontend team, actively mentoring developers, and cultivating an environment of extreme ownership and accountability. This leadership will be key to accelerating delivery cycles, ensuring the engineering team operates with enhanced speed, reliability, and a sharp focus on high-leverage activities that drive significant business impact.
• • Furthermore, you will play a pivotal role in eliminating bottlenecks within the development process. By fostering clear communication and driving seamless cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product, and design teams, you will streamline the entire journey from initial idea generation to successful production deployment. Your efforts will directly contribute to scaling excellence, raising the overall technical bar, and laying the foundational architecture for a truly world-class frontend organization that can support Almedia's ambitious growth trajectory.
• • To excel in this role, you will bring a deep and demonstrable expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, applied at scale. Your leadership style will be pragmatic, characterized by a proven ability to implement best practices while maintaining high velocity in a dynamic, high-growth environment. You will possess a strong aptitude for system design, capable of architecting robust, maintainable solutions, writing clean, high-quality code, and effectively managing and mitigating technical debt. Strategic influence is paramount; you will combine strong technical leadership with consistent, hands-on contributions, demonstrating your commitment to both vision and execution. Experience with React Native is a significant advantage, offering further opportunities to impact our mobile presence.
• • What makes this role particularly exciting is the direct autonomy it offers. You will have a high degree of influence in a fast-paced, high-growth setting, where your decisions will directly shape the product and its technical direction. You will have the strategic opportunity to define not only how we execute our frontend development today but also how we architect for the future, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability. A key part of your mandate will be to help lead and scale a lean, elite engineering organization, attracting and nurturing top talent. This is a unique chance to make a substantial impact, own critical aspects of our technology, and grow your career exponentially within a company that values innovation, performance, and shared success.