Software - Lead JavaScript UI Engineer

The “Lead Javascript UI Engineer” will architect and build modular, customer-delightful mobile and web applications that are easy-to-use and fully tested and monitored. This person will drive reusable design patterns and build a component library to maximize code reusability. They will also be a critical member of a highly efficient and cohesive engineering team that is focused on the customer’s needs and requirements.

Outcomes:

• Implement user interfaces that are highly intuitive, reliable and meet the needs of our customers

• Design and build a component library that will be the basis of all of our user interfaces – both web and mobile

• All mobile and web applications are fully tested, crash-proof and easily monitored with strong report-ability back

Competencies:

• Maniacally focused on the end-user and customer and their user experience needs

• Passion for developing customer-delightful and easy-to-use user interfaces, working directly with and demonstrating a deep understanding of the end-user / customer

• Passion for software development and modern software development practices, including lean and agile

• Egoless and works and interacts well with software engineering, product management, business development and customers

• Passion for our mission and values

• Able to get out in the field and excited to do so

• Great listener and communicator, written and oral

• Technically knowledgeable and not afraid to technically challenge other engineers

• Ability and passion to quickly learn new technologies and industries, staying up-to-date with the latest technology and best practices

• Results oriented, demonstrating a passion to release software, while not compromising on quality

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of web programming using Javascript (TypeScript is a plus)

• 2+ years of building scalable web or hybrid mobile applications using a modern web framework such as React or Angular 2+ (React preferred but not required)

• Intimate knowledge of designing and integrating with REST or GraphQL APIs

• Experience building tooling in Node.js

• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of the differences between web and mobile application development and the tradeoffs of each

• Experience making applications aware of user roles (experience using feature flags is a plus)

• Experience setting up monitoring solutions to track users and catch issues in Production