Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Lead Engineer - Full Stack
Copenhagen
We're helping our client hire a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to join a globally distributed engineering organization building real, production-critical platforms used daily by customers and partners across multiple markets.
Responsibilities
As a Lead Engineer (Full Stack), you'll play a key role in shaping the future of a suite of React-based applications, ranging from bespoke customer experiences to high-traffic B2B and B2C platforms.
- Lead and mentor multiple teams delivering complex web applications, dashboards, portals, and user-facing platforms
- Own frontend architecture across new and existing React applications
- Define shared foundations: design systems, component libraries, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and modern AI-assisted developer workflows
- Improve engineering quality through strong design docs, code reviews, documentation, and retrospectives
- Partner with Product and business stakeholders on roadmap planning and delivery
- Make architectural decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability
- Influence API contracts, performance strategies, authentication, and security patterns across the stack
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on React experience, ideally in complex or large-scale environments
- Proven experience in a technical leadership capacity (formal or informal)
- Strong understanding of API consumption and design patterns
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership, from problem definition to production and monitoring
- Experience coordinating work across multiple teams or systems
- Full professional proficiency in Danish and English
Nice to Have
- TypeScript
- Experience with commerce, transactional, or data-heavy platforms
- GraphQL and/or REST APIs
- Cloud-native runtime experience
- Observability and monitoring tooling
- Security and performance awareness
- Familiarity with modern React tooling and ecosystem
- Exposure to AI / LLM-assisted development workflows
We Offer
- International engineering environment
- Senior-level scope with real technical and organizational influence
- Modern, cloud-native technology stack
- Competitive compensation package including pension and benefits
- Strong social culture with team events and shared activities
- Opportunity to shape both the role and the platform as the organization grows
We are reviewing applications for this position on a continual basis so early applications are encouraged. To apply, please reach out to Elizabeth Tyler at [email protected] with an up to date CV.