UI Front-End Development Architect

This role will require deep hands-on expertise and leadership skills to help drive alignment & consistency across assurance product teams, encourage continuous improvement in our Front-end development work, and work closely with the team to ensure the needs of assurance products are clear to them.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Development Leadership: Lead the creation of sophisticated user interfaces for web applications, utilizing frameworks such as React, Angular, and methodologies like Web Components.
• Architectural Innovation: Architect the user interface layer of our applications to ensure they are resilient, scalable, and easy to maintain.
• Emerging Technology: Gain and apply knowledge in emerging technologies like AI to provide improved user experiences and boost productivity and quality in what we do.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with feature teams, providing expertise and mentorship to front-end developers, and ensure the seamless integration of front-end technologies.
• Responsive Design Implementation: Apply responsive design principles to guarantee that our applications deliver a superior user experience on any device.
• Code Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough reviews of all front-end code to uphold the highest standards of quality and performance.
• Design Collaboration: Collaborate with the UI/UX design team to transform design concepts into functional, user-centric web interfaces.
• Continuous Excellence: Champion best practices and continuous enhancement of our products, codebase, processes, and tools.
• Cross-Functional Engagement: Coordinate with various team members to meet project objectives and produce outstanding outcomes.
• Prototyping: Develop both programmatic and conceptual prototypes to pioneer new features and validate innovative concepts.
• Industry Awareness: Stay updated on the latest industry trends, tools, and best practices, and disseminate this knowledge within the engineering team.
• Stakeholder Communication: Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, feature teams, developers, and UX teams.
• Upskilling and Mentoring: Willingness to share knowledge and mentor team members to improve their skills and ensure code quality.
• Scalability & Performance: Understanding of scalability & performance considerations on the user experience by optimizing frontend applications for performance and growth.

Skills and attributes for success

• ​Advanced technical competency in designing, developing, and executing solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of: React, Angular, Web Components, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Understanding of Digital Accessibility Requirements:

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Interactive Media, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognition Psychology, Cognitive Science, Informatics, Design, or related field preferred
• 10 years of relevant work experience with a concentration in front end design and development
• 5 years of React, Angular, Web Component JavaScript experience
• Expert in HTML
• Expert in CSS
• 3 years of experience with Figma and Adobe
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to lead and task manage software engineers and provide appropriate level of guidance and oversight to ensure delivery of engineering deliverables.
• A firm grasp of design concepts such as Responsive Design, Progressive Enhancement, Adaptive Rendering, and Minimal Download Strategy
• Strong understanding on user interface performance optimization techniques
• Experience working in Agile Development Methodologies and frameworks

Ideally, you’ll also have

• GIT, NPM
• Node.js, Vue.js

What we look for

• A self-starter, independent-thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion