Lead hands-on front-end development using Angular to design, build, and review scalable, maintainable, low-latency web applications. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-asset UI teams, follow agile practices, drive improvements, and adopt UI/UX best practices and standard frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on involvement in development, design, and code review.
- Build for highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications.
- Work closely with our stakeholders in a highly collaborative environment
- Follow solid agile software development practices
- Provide leadership in research, design, and implement improvements to existing and new applications.
- Work closely with cross-asset UI teams to adopt best practices and standard frameworks.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ 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, writing cross-browser compatible code.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and integrating front-end components with backend services.
- Proficiency in UI/UX best practices and building highly interactive web applications.
- Exposure to ReactJS 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.)
- Strong understanding of UX and visual design
- 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 46,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 162,000
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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