Lead - Frontend Engineering

About CargoX

CargoX is a UAE-based autonomous logistics company deploying driverless delivery vehicles across last-mile, middle-mile and long-haul routes. Our fleet orchestration platform coordinates real-world delivery flows across autonomous vans, bots and drones, and is used every day by our operations teams, delivery partners and commercial customers to deploy, monitor and manage autonomous fleets.

Role overview

We are looking for a Lead – Frontend Engineering to lead the user-facing side of our robot orchestration platform. You will set the frontend technical direction, lead and grow the frontend team, and stay hands-on building interactive, high-performance interfaces that make it simple to deploy, manage and scale autonomous fleets. This role sits at the meeting point of robotics, operations software and intelligent automation.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor and hire frontend engineers; set coding standards, run code reviews and improve development practices.
• Own the frontend architecture and technical roadmap for our web applications, including shared component libraries and design-system foundations.
• Build and ship high-quality interfaces for live fleet monitoring, dispatch, incident management and reporting, including real-time data views and maps.
• Partner with Product and UX/UI design to turn designs into fast, accessible and responsive experiences across devices and browsers.
• Work closely with backend engineers on API design and overall application architecture.
• Set standards for performance, testing, observability and release quality, and keep the codebase robust and easy to maintain.

What you will bring

• 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading engineers or owning frontend architecture for a production product.
• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript, and deep experience with a modern framework such as React, Angular or Vue.js.
• Experience building data-heavy, real-time applications (for example dashboards, maps or operational tools) that integrate with RESTful and real-time APIs.
• Strong command of frontend build tools, testing, Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead collaboratively across Product, Design and Engineering.
• Experience with fleet management, logistics, mobility or robotics software is a strong plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (on-site)