Lead Front End Developer

Lead Front End Developer

Location: Austin, TX
Length: 12+ months
Shift: Hybrid/Onsite
Interview: Onsite face to face (mandatory)
Job Description: Primary Responsibilities
Lead a small team of experienced UI developers and contribute to development of next-generation central traffic management software, incorporating customer requirements and industry standards
Collaborate with Product Management, Product Owner, UX Designers and Architects to design and implement a modern and user-friendly browser frontend
Participate in UX process and requirements refinement
Contribute to product success and excel with a dynamic team in a highly collaborative environment
Ensure software quality at all levels through test automation development
Leverage AI coding assistants for high productivity, test coverage and quality code output
Requirements
Experience designing and implementing React browser frontends
Proven experience leading a team
Demonstrated experience with software patterns and React application design best practices
Proficient in JavaScript / TypeScript and React
React Material UI experience
Excellent communication skills
Microservice architecture experience
Experience using REST APIs
Experience with CI/CD Pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab)
Dedication to software quality
Experience writing automated unit tests
Outstanding analytical, problem solving, planning, and abstract thinking skills
Strong attention to detail, proactively driving assignments and tracking tasks
Creative thinking and innovation skills to define new approaches to issues
Preferred Education, Skills, and Experience
Minimum five years of experience within Team Leadership
Design of Cloud-Native applications / Design of multi-tenant applications
Minimum of 2 years of experience designing / publishing reusable React components in npm
Minimum of 2 years of experience using GraphQL APIs
Experience deploying to Kubernetes
Experience with Websockets / SSE / CORS