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

About the Maestro Project
: Maestro is one of ADP Brazil Labs
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most ambitious innovation initiatives. It is designed to seamlessly integrate our ecosystem of AI Agents with ADP
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s design system and component libraries, delivering a truly unique and intelligent user experience. Maestro empowers associates and clients alike with intuitive, responsive, and adaptive interfaces that combine cutting-edge AI capabilities with a consistent, standards-based front-end foundation. By harmonizing design, intelligence, and technology, Maestro sets the stage for the next generation of user experiences across ADP
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s global ecosystem.
Role Overview:
As a Lead Front-End Engineer on the Maestro project, you will play a critical role in shaping how AI-powered solutions come to life in users
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hands. Your expertise in web standards, accessibility, and framework-agnostic architectures will ensure Maestro
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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
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s possible in enterprise UX, redefining how people interact with intelligent digital solutions.
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Your Responsibilities
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• 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 the highest 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 patterns of human-AI collaboration.

To Thrive In This Position, You'll Need

• 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 that ensure 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 commonly used to build, test, and document consistent web applications (e.g., bundlers, package managers, testing frameworks, Storybook, etc.).
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, and cross-platform theming, including integration with modern reactive frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, etc / 2
• 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, working at the frontier of AI and design.
• Contribute to a flagship innovation project that will impact 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
You'll Love Working Here Because You Can

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another's ideas to net out the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We're obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

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We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at
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A little about ADP:
We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.

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