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Lead Software Engineer is an intermediate technical leadership role responsible for helping the team set the tone with following the approved architecture and producing solutions and design considerations for the development, maintenance, and improvement of software applications. The role will also establish best practices in software development, coding, code-review, testing, and problem-solving. This role will be expected to deliver complex pieces of deliverables for a project.

Lead UI Developer play a significant role on our engineering team, developing the user facing applications for our company’s websites, functional and mobile web applications. Lead UI Developer collaborate openly in an Agile development environment with other members of engineering and user experience teams, including Architects, QA, User interaction & User interface designers, as well as Project Managers. They participate in our UI development processes by establishing and documenting development standards and common components for common usage across all of our web applications.

Our Lead UI Developer are responsible for building semantic, WCAG compliant, responsive, maintainable and performant solutions that meet business requirements and project goals while lining up with future strategic visions.

Essential Functions:

• Understand the end-to-end technical flow of the project

• Collaborate with the business and architects to understand, suggest, and follow best practices and implement solutions.

• Influence technical solutions by sharing knowledge and brainstorming within the team.

• Help the team to move forward with the technical problem-solving skills.

• Assist in code review and enforce standard practices within the team.

• Continuously learn and adapt to recent technologies and development practices.

• Go-to person for trying out innovative solutions or conducting proof-of-concepts.

Qualifications:

• University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent combination of education experience.

• 8+ years of industry experience.

• Expert proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Expert proficiency with the JavaScript framework Vue

• Expert proficiency with state management library Pinia

• A high level of experience building UI layouts using SASS, LESS, and the CSS GRID system

• Comprehensive understanding of MongoDB and good working knowledge of other NoSQL and SQL databases

• Comprehensive knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and related techniques for building compliant web applications.

• A solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues, and ways to work around them

• Demonstrated experience in incorporating reliable unit and end-to-end testing

• Good knowledge and practical experience of build tools like Webpack, Vite, Rollup etc.

• Good working knowledge of Java & SpringBoot

• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

• Significant experience debugging using browser-based tools like Chrome Developer Console

• Some exposure to Continuous Integration/Delivery pipeline for cloud, including Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, GitLab, etc.

• Some experience working in an agile environment using tools such as JIRA and Confluence.

• Excellent communication skills, ability to work well in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.