Chief Front-End Architect

Our Mission

iSeatz provides digital commerce and loyalty tech solutions that enable travel and lifestyle bookings to global customers including American Express, Expedia, and IHG Hotels. Our proprietary platform processes more than $4B a year in transactions. We have a history of long-term trusted relationships and innovation that drives tangible value to our customers through a customizable, scalable, and secure platform, a global 3rd party marketplace, and loyalty integration. We aspire to put our customers at the heart of every decision and exceed their expectations with best-in-class solutions and business-value innovations.

What You’ll Do

As a Chief Front-End Architect at iSeatz, you will report directly to the Director of Architecture and play a crucial role in shaping our front-end architecture, ensuring it is robust, scalable, and integrates seamlessly with our back-end systems. Your expertise will be pivotal in mentoring our engineering teams and enhancing our platform's capabilities to deliver innovative, customer-centric solutions.

Your Impact

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance front-end architectures using Node.js and TypeScript, ensuring maintainability and adherence to excellence.

• Lead and mentor junior and mid-level engineers, through effective coaching methods while fostering a culture of learning and growth within the technical teams.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and product teams to develop cohesive, functional solutions that enhance user experiences.
• Continuously explore and adopt new technologies, particularly those that can enhance our presence in the travel industry.
• Utilize Vercel and similar technologies to their full potential, optimizing our product offerings.
• Apply expertise in technologies and seek performance optimization techniques that lead to the development of fast, efficient, and highly interactive web applications, directly impacting user engagement and satisfaction.
• Create applications that comply with accessibility standards that broadens market reach ensuring legal compliance, fostering an inclusive user environment.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to align technological development with business goals for sustained growth and innovation.

What You Bring to the Table

• Proficiency in building scalable and efficient applications using Node.js and TypeScript.

• Proven track record leading and developing technical teams with success fostering a positive and productive environment.
• Strong capability to articulate technical decisions and to collaborate effectively across departments.
• Extensive experience with modern development tools like Vercel, adhering to best practices in performance optimization and security.
• Expertise in creating applications that adhere to WCAG and other accessibility guidelines.
• Strategic alignment of technology implementations with broader business goals.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to speak confidently and clearly to team members and clients of diverse levels and backgrounds, ensuring effective and inclusive interactions

Bonus Points

• Background or deep understanding of travel- and loyalty-related technologies

• History of adopting emerging tech that significantly enhances user engagement and performance

• Skilled in adapting applications for global audiences

Location

This role is remote-first. iSeatz is a New Orleans-based company with Central Time Zone business hours, but feel free to work from your home office, from the beach, or from the cottage you rented for the summer!

What We Bring to the Table

iSeatz is among the most prominent tech employers in New Orleans. With employee engagement and community impact at the forefront of our culture, we have been named a 2020 Top Workplace by nola.com and honored as one of the CityBusinesses’ Best Places to Work since 2008, including a 1st place award in 2020, at the height of a global pandemic.

iSeatz is committed to ensuring all employees are given every opportunity to succeed and grow within and beyond their current roles and responsibilities. We work diligently to build and maintain trust among our workforce in everything we do, beginning with fostering an autonomous and thought-provoking work environment.

Micromanagement does not have a place at iSeatz. You will be trusted to use the knowledge and experience that brought you to iSeatz in tandem with the support of your manager and those around you, as needed, to deliver a high-quality end product.

We value a diverse workplace

We are committed to building and maintaining a culture of support, awareness, and sensitivity about the importance and impact of our differences and leverage these differences to build a stronger iSeatz. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the People Operations Team at humanresources@iseatz.com.

A note about joining our workforce

At iSeatz, we’re looking for candidates who are genuinely excited about joining our fast-paced and motivated team. If you’re not enthusiastic about the opportunity to be a significant contributor; to lead with confidence, discipline, impact, thoughtfulness, innovation, and accountability; and to bring your passion and drive for this specific role to the table, we ask that you kindly refrain from applying. On the other hand, if this all sounds like you, we can’t wait to hear from you! Come help us shape the future of the travel and loyalty tech industry.