Lead Front End Developer

Position:

Lead Front End Developer

Location:

Austin, TX

Length:

12+ months

Shift:

Hybrid/Onsite

Interview:

O

nsite 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

MUST have 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