Lead Front-End Engineer (P4168)
84.51°
- Chicago, IL Deerfield, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Execute the vision, goals, priorities and work alongside the team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality technical solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members. Drive the technical aspects of solutions where needed including proofs of concepts, sizings, designs, implementation and testing.
- Drive continuous improvement to deliver solutions that are at the forefront of industry leading techniques while also adhering to best practices.
- Experience building and architecting mature front-end solutions including event driven architecture, micro front-ends, state management, design systems, and sharable components
- Experience with sustainable engineering practices such as automated testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and monitoring / alerting
- Support a culture of learning and development. Promote and enable technical skills development in support of high-quality code components, systems, and solutions.
- Work in partnership with Product and Architecture teams to derive technical requirements from business requirements and identify risk areas.
- Support recruitment and resource plans of the team to hire great development talent; including recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding/training
- Escalate concerns to leadership, as needed, and remove roadblocks for the team
- An advocate for 84.51 delivery methodology.
- Participate in and contribute to Agile team ceremonies, including Backlog Reviews, Retrospectives, Architectural Reviews, team and system demos
- Lead and participate in Communities of Practice.
- Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution
- Bachelor's Degree or higher and relevant certifications in technology and/or project management
- 5+ years of experience working in infrastructure/cloud and/or software development
- Strong knowledge and skill in cloud computing solutions, technologies, and trends
- Extensive, hands-on experience with modern software development concepts such as CI/CD, service-oriented architecture, infrastructure as code, and/or containerization
- Strong Front-End Engineering fundamentals with a minimum of 5+ years' experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- 3+ years working with modern front-end frameworks including React, Angular, and Svelte
- 6+ years working in modern full-stack web-application development
- Experience building and shipping multiple large software products using agile methodologies
- Strong experience leading and operating in a lean, agile environment with distributed teams.
- Excellent communication skills, particularly on technical topics.
- Comfort with independent learning of new technologies, and willingness to jump into using unfamiliar tools
- High level of independence; ability to make time-sensitive decisions rapidly and solve urgent problems without escalation.
- Strong time and project management skills; the ability to balance multiple, simultaneous work items and prioritize as necessary.
- Demonstrated success in working collaboratively across technology and governance roles to develop, implement, and operate systems that improve processes & efficiencies, and support business strategies.