Lead React Developer

Role: Lead React Developer
Location: Remote
Contract: 6+ months
Job ID: 130201

Responsibilities include:

This team is moving towards micro front end architecture
This group had never had a UI project before, not familiar with the technology stack
Don't know what they did in the past was necessarily right
Need someone with experience to guide best practices in React, and work with the lead Architect to get to micro front end architecture
The concepts are in place, but they need someone to continue to drive independent technology advancements
Responsibilities mainly fall in the front end, if they get someone with a little bit of full stack experience that is fine
Preferred for them to have lead experience already, a senior dev with no directs will be a steep learning curve
Responsible for leading the team, developing their acumen in micro front end technologies, developing a library, building a common framework for UI - micro front end, building the shell for the teams to leverage moving forward
Not interfacing with stakeholders, mostly with the architecture team, mentoring and coaching, working closely with lead architect
Build and integrate a common framework, helping with solutions, code reviews
React testing libraries, overall understanding of what the best approach is

Must Have Skills:

Proven experience in container and cloud technologies, including Docker, ECS Fargate and AWS, as well as secure application development.
Experience in developing using react router, redux, webpack, scss/sass etc.
Professional experience in building front-end frameworks and web technologies including HTML/CSS, JavaScript or Typescript, web components, Node.js or Vue.js or React.
Proven experience with building digital restful APIs (GraphQL is a plus)
Working knowledge of diverse front-end related technologies and new and current architectures such as - React JS, Vue JS, Redux, or other state management libraries, Node JS, Express Server, Unit testing with Jest, React testing library, Mocha, Chai, Enzyme.
Strong technical background on developing enterprise digital applications with MVC design pattern, micro front-end strategy and open micro service architectures.
Lead experience required
Bachelors required but more emphasis on practical working experience