Lead Front-End Engineer – Maestro: innovation at Brazil Labs

Overview

Lead Front-End Engineer – Maestro: innovation at ADP Brazil Labs

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About the Maestro Project: Maestro is one of ADP Brazil Labs' most ambitious innovation initiatives. It is designed to seamlessly integrate our ecosystem of AI Agents with ADP's design system and component libraries, delivering a unique and intelligent user experience. Maestro empowers associates and clients with intuitive, responsive, and adaptive interfaces that combine cutting-edge AI capabilities with a standards-based front-end foundation. By harmonizing design, intelligence, and technology, Maestro sets the stage for the next generation of user experiences across ADP's global ecosystem.

Role Overview

As a Lead Front-End Engineer on the Maestro project, you will shape how AI-powered solutions come to life in users' hands. Your expertise in web standards, accessibility, and framework-agnostic architectures will ensure Maestro's front-end foundation is robust, flexible, and scalable. You will combine technical leadership with design sensitivity, enabling seamless integration of AI-driven interactions with reusable design components. This is a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of what's possible in enterprise UX, redefining how people interact with intelligent digital solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of front-end architectures that merge AI-driven workflows with design system components into a cohesive user experience.
• Build and maintain reusable, framework-agnostic UI building blocks leveraging web standards (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components, etc.).
• Ensure Maestro's interfaces meet high standards of accessibility, usability, performance, and adaptability across platforms.
• Collaborate with AI engineers, UX designers, and platform engineers to orchestrate seamless integration of services and components.
• Provide technical mentorship, code reviews, and architectural guidance to drive engineering excellence across the team.
• Contribute to the evolution of ADP's design system by aligning Maestro's front-end innovations with ADP's broader product ecosystem.
• Rapidly prototype and experiment with AI-powered interactions, delivering PoCs, pilots, and MVPs that validate new human-AI interaction patterns.

Qualifications & To Thrive In This Position

• At least 8 years of experience developing and scaling complex, high-performance web applications.
• Deep expertise in semantic HTML, modern CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), and browser APIs.
• Proven experience with Web Components, Shadow DOM, and other standards-based approaches for framework-agnostic reusability.
• Strong understanding of AI-powered interfaces, conversational UI patterns, and context-aware front-end behaviors.
• Proficiency with modern tooling, frameworks, and libraries used to build, test, and document consistent web applications (e.g., bundlers, package managers, testing frameworks, Storybook).
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, and cross-platform theming, including integration with modern reactive frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, etc.).
• Solid knowledge of accessibility (WCAG/ARIA), internationalization, and front-end performance optimization.
• Ability to integrate UI with back-end services, AI APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Leadership experience guiding engineering teams, mentoring peers, and collaborating with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• A passion for exploring the intersection of AI, design, and front-end engineering, with curiosity for emerging standards and tools.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Shape the next generation of intelligent user experiences at the frontier of AI and design.
• Contribute to a flagship innovation project impacting ADP's global product ecosystem.
• Collaborate with talented engineers, designers, and AI specialists in a highly creative environment.
• Be part of an innovation culture that values exploration, growth, and delivering meaningful solutions.

Join us at ADP Brazil Labs, where your expertise in front-end engineering will power Maestro — a project that redefines how people experience work through design, intelligence, and innovation.

What You'll Love About Working Here

• Courageous team collaboration: ownership, challenging ideas, and healthy debate to reach the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale: focusing on real user outcomes and client happiness.
• Curious, collaborative learning: grow with smart colleagues and stay agile.
• Ownership mindset: tackle challenging problems and master your craft.
• Giving back: contribute to clients and the community through ADP's philanthropic initiatives.
• Commitment to equality and equity: enduring value in actions.

A little about ADP: We are a global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration and a leader in outsourcing, analytics, and compliance. Learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.

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ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of protected characteristics. Hiring decisions are based on qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance. Ethics and compliance with all applicable laws are expected. For more, visit ADP's culture and values.

Employment type: Full-time | Job function: Information Technology | Industry: Software Development | Seniority level: Not Applicable

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