Lead architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, high-performance Angular applications. Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and QA in Agile teams to deliver features, drive code reviews, testing, performance optimization, and mentor junior engineers while aligning work to technical strategy.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Develop and engineer front end solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes.
- Architect, design, and implement scalable and high-performance Angular applications.
- Drive code reviews, debugging, testing, and performance optimization for all UI layers.
- Stay updated with the latest Angular versions and trends, implementing best practices and new features as needed.
- Partner continuously with stakeholders, UX and QA
- Provide thought leadership, as well as coaching and development for junior team members
- Collaborate with technical leadership to ensure work is aligned to the broad technical strategy
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of hands-on professional experience in front-end/UI development using Angular (preferably Angular 16+)
- Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, and Responsive Design.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, AG Grid and integrating front-end components with backend services.
- Proficiency in UI/UX best practices and building highly interactive web applications.
- Exposure to React framework
- Strong understanding of frontend build tools (Webpack, Angular CLI, npm, yarn, gulp etc.) and version control systems like Git.
- Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
- Clear understanding of building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premises and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
- Exposure to Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
- Multiple years of experience CI/CD pipelines and using front-end test strategies and frameworks (Cypress, jasmine, karma, selenium etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
- Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
- Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL)
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 64,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 225,000
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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