Develop and maintain secure REST APIs and Angular-based configuration interfaces. Own customer and vendor onboarding integrations, system workflows, API subscriptions, access provisioning, and software releases. Build Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with Sonar quality gates, troubleshoot production issues using Splunk and Datadog, and execute functional, automated, and end-to-end QA testing. Collaborate with engineering teams to validate integrations, track defects, and ensure production readiness.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Front End Developer. In this role, you will architect resilient enterprise REST APIs utilizing, while simultaneously building and refining clean, intuitive frontend system configurations using Angular.
This position bridges the gap between software development, DevOps infrastructure, and rigorous end-to-end quality assurance validation. You will take complete ownership of complex integration flows, optimize automated CI/CD pipelines, ensure absolute data integrity through systematic test case execution, and monitor production reliability using advanced logging and observability suites.
Key Responsibilities
- Backend Engineering & API Design: Design, build, test, and maintain highly secure and scalable RESTful web services.
- Frontend UI & Configuration: Develop and refine clear, highly interactive web components and configuration dashboards within single-page applications using Angular, ensuring a seamless interface for handling technical settings.
- Integration & Onboarding Orchestration: Lead the technical validation and end-to-end verification of customer and vendor onboarding pipelines, ensuring absolute reliability and zero-fault data flow across integrated applications.
- Workflow & Release Management: Manage deep system configurations, handling structured workflows for API subscription lifecycles, access provisioning, and coordinated software release management across multiple runtime environments.
- DevSecOps & CI/CD Pipeline Management: Establish and optimize continuous delivery pipelines utilizing Jenkins, ensuring that strict code-coverage and automated quality gates are met via Sonar metrics before pushing changes to GitHub.
- Observability & Troubleshooting: Perform advanced debugging and root-cause analysis on highly complex system environments. Leverage logs and application performance metrics in Splunk and Datadog to proactively diagnose and resolve errors.
- Comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA): Collaborate closely with independent engineering squads to validate third-party integrations. Create detailed functional test matrices, automate critical path regression test scenarios, and manage structural defect tracking to guarantee absolute production readiness.
Required Technical Skills & Competencies
- Proficient in REST API development with Node.js, with recent experience in the last 1-2 years. Experience with NestJS is a plus.
- 5-7 years of Typescript experience, Github, Sonar, Jenkins, Datadog, Splunk
- Front-end experience with JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.) with recent experience in the last 1-2 years. Angular is a plus.
- Experience working with AI for day to day development, copilot is a plus, and agentic AI is a plus.
- Proficient in coding, unit test, QA automation, CI/CD
- Familiarity with system configuration, API subscription workflows, and release management.
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
- Technical proficiency in performing QA testing and end-to-end validation of onboarding flows.
- Familiarity with test case creation, execution, and defect tracking.
- Ability to collaborate with engineering to validate integration and ensure readiness for production.
Professional & Soft Skills
- Exceptional analytical, diagnostic, and deep-dive enterprise troubleshooting habits.
- Ability to translate high-level, complex client configuration and onboarding requirements into actionable, structured test verification matrices.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate directly with engineering teams to ensure unified integration readiness.
- A self-starting mentality, highly comfortable navigating ambiguous systemic conditions in high-throughput data environments.
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 35,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 123,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
Photon Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
11 East Adams Street Suite 1100, Chicago, IL, United States, 60603
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