Lead Front End Developer  Full Time

Location: Austin, TX

Length: 12+ months

Shift: Hybrid/Onsite

Interview: Onsite 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