Lead Frontend Developer (m/w/d)

Location: Vienna (hybrid). As a leadership role, you'll spend some time in our centrally located office to foster collaboration and culture. The remainder of your schedule can be fully remote or flexible.

At Studyly, our mission is to empower teachers and their students to confidently master the challenges of mathematics through digital support. With our app, we have established ourselves as a leading learning solution in Austria, continue to grow rapidly across Austria and Germany, and are actively accelerating our international expansion. To fuel that growth, we have been steadily improving the user experience of our platform over the last year. We are now ready to deepen these efforts and unlock even greater impact.

We're looking for a Lead Frontend Developer to own UX quality and maintainability in our frontend team and take it to the next level. A key focus of this role is to improve the context in which the team operates, for example by establishing shared components and patterns, and optimizing implementation processes. Alongside your technical work, you will shape a team mindset that prioritizes quality, reliability, and user-centered frontend development by default. Additionally, you will lead initiatives and features from solution definition to delivery, helping us scale our delivery processes in a way that consistently enhances quality.

Responsibilities of this role:

• Own UX quality, maintainability, and technical excellence of the frontend codebase.
• Establish and evolve shared frontend foundations that make high-quality implementations easier for the team (e.g. reusable component libraries, resilience patterns, UX patterns, error handling approaches).
• Guide and review frontend implementations with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and user experience.
• Lead initiatives and features end-to-end in close collaboration with product leadership and other engineering leads. Clarify goals, identify solutions, coordinate with designers when needed, distribute work effectively across the team, and ensure the implementation also works from a user perspective.
• Contribute hands-on where it creates the most impact, especially in complex or quality-critical areas.

Who You Are:

• A strong sense of ownership, taking responsibility of whatever is needed to get the job done
• An opinionated builder, who thrives in an autonomous environment – you will be given plenty of it
• A technical engineer with a passion for great UX, who also understands the compounding effects of continuous improvements
• An empathetic collaborator, who can influence a team through feedback and coaching
• A clear communicator, who can structure and simplify complexity

Experience:

• 7+ years building complex, modern, user-facing frontend applications at production scale Several years leading technical frontend quality and team-wide UX practices - e.g. components, state-management, resilience patterns, automated testing, performance optimizations
• Several years leading initiatives or projects, including coordination and collaboration with product and design
• Experience understanding user needs, evaluating trade-offs, and identifying UX solutions Experience mentoring or coaching engineers is a plus
• Experience with Angular is a plus
• German language skills is a plus

Why Join:

• Impact - Shape the UX of 200k users with a product that helps teachers and students navigate the most challenging subject in school
• Autonomy - Light-weight processes that empower engineers. We give you goals with context and trust you to find the best solution
• Tackle interesting technical challenges at production scale, including UX quality, reusability, and maintenance
• Work with happy, interesting, and skilled colleagues in a motivated and diverse team
• A young, steadily growing company with a modern tech stack that has mastered many startup challenges while remaining lean and open to new ideas.
• A laptop setup that works for you, regular team events, and other perks

For this role, the salary range starts from € 4350 gross/month (full-time), with flexibility based on experience.