Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design performant and usable frontend solutions

• Spearhead API design and work with backend team

• Collaborate with UX designer and product managers as well as backend developers and SDETs to continuously improve our existing platforms as well as bring to life new ones.

• Collaborate across function and technical teams to understand and provide solutions to critical challenges

• Introduce modern technologies and guide developers to learn and adopt

• Bring industry best practices for frontend development

• Drives the performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring for a module.

• Responsible to prepare the technical design of the components (one or more of client/web presentation tier, API specs, integrations, reusability).

• Proficient in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture.

• Contributes to designing and implementing the build, release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the application.

• Implements (hands-on) the module components based on prevailing Framework and Open-source standards & its best practices.

• Mentors the team (people working on the module and other project team members) on technology concepts and best practices for design, implementation, and other processes.

Technical Requirements:

• Strong fundamentals in JavaScript (ECMAScript) and Typescript

• Extensive experience and expertise with modern frontend technologies and frameworks, primarily React

• Hands-on with one more backend technologies NodeJS, Java, C#

• Good hands-on experience with different state management approaches, with expertise in Redux

• Strong understanding of UI Concepts and usability

• Ability to anticipate problems and steer the team towards right direction

• Knowledge of software development lifecycle, DevOps (build, continuous integration, deployment tools) and standard methodologies

• Ability to setup packaging using tools like Webpack and deployment pipelines with docker and Jenkins

• Experience in working source control management systems like git, Bitbucket and managing packages using private registries like Jfrog

• Knowledge of secure coding practices, compliance, open-source technologies, and licensing

• Ability to communicate with cross-functional teams about various engineering topics such as system architecture, detailed design, APIs, project schedules etc.

Other Expectations:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor developers

• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills

• Good knowledge of API development and best practices