Lead Front End - React Developer

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Must be local to Chicago, onsite 3 days per week

Client is looking for a lead-level front-end engineer that has extensive experience in React preferably 5 years of lead experience.

Job Title: Lead Front End - React Developer

Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid

Duration: 12+ Months

Job Post Summary

Seeking a Sr. Lead Software Engineer / Front End React Engineer to be responsible for leading, designing, developing, testing, and deploying software solutions for Private Passport Accounts pages.

Job Description

• Responsible for leading, designing, developing, testing, and deploying software solutions for Private Passport Accounts pages.
• Propose new designs and modify existing ones to continuously improve performance, functionality, and stability of the system.
• Partner with business leaders and business unit partners to define priorities and deliver custom solutions to solve business problems or address business needs.
• Must be competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of system design and implementation.
• Provides comprehensive consultation to Business Unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of the project development cycle.
• Provide technical expertise to support and enhance the Private Passport application.
• Provides leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.
• Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.
• Establishing Team Programming/Design Patterns.
• Establishing Code Testing strategies.
• Atomic Design Integration.
• Requiring Lead Level experience leading a team of developers.
• Working with Product Owners and Web Designer to establish roadmaps and work in progress.
• Developing new greenfield and brownfield products using ReactJS.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code.
• Responsible for efficiently working with other teams in the organization to help them leverage the micro-FE framework/components library in their quest to modernize their applications.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Facilitate code reviews.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related Computer Engineering or Science curriculum is required.
• At least 10 years of professional development experience with significant exposure to working on complex projects with cross-functional teams.
• Strong programming skills in Javascript, React.js, Typescript, Node.js (5 years minimum).
• Must have proven experience building external facing friendly websites (Includes mobile) using JavaScript frameworks.
• Server-side programming experience with automation and backend support preferred.
• Some SQL skills for developing and optimizing complex stored procedures desirable.
• Experience with agile project methodology and collaboration in Jira/ADO.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills, and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management and staff required.
• Skills in working with Opensource technologies, Database technologies, micro service architecture, cloud-native development, continuous build, continuous integration, and continuous deployment desirable.
• Ability to work effectively with end users to define requirements.
• Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Unit's goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff.
• Experience in Domain Driven Design desirable.
• Experience with continuous integration and collaboration tools like JIRA, ADO, Bitbucket, GitHub, and Confluence.
• Experience in architecting web applications.
• Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise.
• Financial Services experience preferred.
• Have the ability to debug and resolve defects and solution complex issues.
• Storybook Experience.
• Redux or other state management libraries in the React ecosystem.
• Data visualization experience.
• Good sense of UI/UX design.
• Experience with a code style guide (we use the Airbnb style guide).
• Experience working with databases (relational, document, etc.) and writing SQL.
• Experience writing automated tests (e.g. Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, etc.).
• Knowledge of web application security ( Content Security Policy, OWASP, etc.).
• Knowledge of Webpack or similar module bundler.
• Highly motivated, self-directed and possesses solid execution skills.
• Demonstrates critical thinking and probes beyond the surface of the requested data to get at the valuable (actionable) information.
• Able to understand complex technical concepts quickly.
• Detail oriented but understands broader impacts of requests.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities as necessary.
• Manages multiple tasks and deliverables simultaneously and in an organized and results-oriented manner.
• Strives to proactively identify and address areas where business process efficiency and effectiveness improvements would make a positive impact on the top and bottom lines.
• Possesses a strong analytical, quantitative, and objective outlook.
• Excellent people skills are also necessary since this position interacts with all levels of resources across the entire organization.