Front End Technical Lead

Job Description

Title: Front End Technical Lead

Locations: Plano, TX (Hybrid – 2-3 days per week onsite)

Duration: Long term contract initially

Client: Retail Domain

Description:

Mandatory Skills:

React.js development, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model, REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux. user interface design exp, modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Oauth.
Main responsibilities:

Drive innovation and design solutions for consumer facing web applications.
Participate in end-to-end design, development, and testing of solutions.
Work with developers, business analysts and subject matter experts to understand the complex technological system to produce integrated solution options.
Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the business on approach and tradeoffs.
Provide high level and detailed effort estimates on proposed solutions.
Communicate solution approaches to architects, project teams and other stakeholders.
Keep up to date on cutting edge technologies and effectively incorporate that knowledge to our platform roadmap, design and implementation.
Qualifications:

4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
10+ years overall programming experience.
6+ years of developing and designing major systems and their subsystems.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a similar field.
Previous experience working as a React.JS developer.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.
Experience with user interface design.
Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
Hands-on experience with unit testing/integration testing tools like Mockito, RestAssured, Cucumber.
Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high-volume web applications.
Experience with popular React.js workflows (Flux or Redux) and data structure libraries(Immutable) and core principles.
Experience integrating with RESTful APIs.
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth.
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, NPM, etc.
Familiarity with event driven architecture patterns.
Excellent troubleshooting skills.
Ability to communicate and drive highly complex technology solutions to broad audiences within and outside of the team through diagrams, written and verbal presentations and communication.
Ability to define solutions from very high-level business ideas.
Ability to describe non-functional requirements.
Ability to work independently.