UI/UX Technical Lead

Our client, a growing SaaS firm that focuses on the insurance sector is looking for a UI/UX Technical Lead. This is a newly created role to assist with their digital transformation efforts. You will drive the architecture and development of high performing user interfaces across both web and mobile platforms. You will lead a team of front-end engineers while collaborating with product managers, designers, and back-end engineers. You will guide the team in implementing best practices in UI/UX to optimize performance and ensure scalability.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the company’s digital product offering and impact the way users engage with them.

Responsibilities

• Develop UI standards for team members
• Document and enforce standard UI practices
• Share common UI resources among developers
• Participate in feature development and support of existing web applications
• Research and architect new UI web solutions
• Provide technical guidance to junior programmers and other software engineers.
• Participate in design and technical meetings

Qualifications

• 8 years of software development experience
• Expert level Typescript/JavaScript skills
• 5 years’ experience developing web applications with Angular (v16 or above)
• Hands-on experience mentoring team members on best practices of all aspects of web frontend skills
• Hands-on experience architecting front-end topologies and best practices such as caching, scalability, and performance tuning
• Leader in CSS / SCSS and use of frameworks like Tailwind to build pixel perfect UI from Figma designs
• Deep understanding of CSS concepts and ability to lead by debugging issues with the team.
• 3 years’ experience with AWS cloud technologies: CI/CD pipelines, Lambda,, CloudFront, and Amplify
• Experience with GraphQL APIs in a production environment

Pluses

• UX design pattern knowledge (preferably Material design patterns)
• Experience with prototyping software (Figma, sketch or similar)