Senior Engineer

We are currently looking for a phenomenal senior JavaScript Engineer who is proficient in React.js and Node.js. Your primary focus will be driving front-end and API development standards and contributing to architecting solutions and enhancing frameworks. Your solutions should be reusable, simple and extendable. You must have 6-10 years of professional software development experience. You should have a history of maintaining a high-performance, reliable, secure, scalable codebase. You will align and coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a dedication to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities

Software Development • Lead and mentor other engineers on React.js, Node.js, JavaScript languages and best practices. Collaborate with other tech leads to define architecture and design of solutions • Building reusable components and front-end libraries for team’s use • Optimizing components for maximum performance across different browsers • Manage technical risk and debt for the team • Write code that is clean, secure, maintainable, and easy to understand • Build solutions for diverse user requirements such as Internationalization, Accessibility • Build customizable, reusable pieces to be used throughout multiple applications following design patterns for separation of concerns, code re-usability, security and performance. • Improve the reliability and efficiency of our inner systems. • Empower teams to automate deployments in test or production environments • Lead code reviews and automated testing • Ensure frictionless CI/CD pipeline from the teams

Leadership • Communicate and coordinate with cross-functional business units, offshore, contractors and third-party development teams • Recognize process and code inefficiencies, and proactively recommend solutions • Bring the culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement • Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing creative ideas • Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing current state and enable the team to be more effective, productive, and deliver faster and stronger results. • Takes accountability for the success of the team achieving their goals • Possibly manage and mentor teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing development efforts

Qualifications

Skills • Strong Computer Science fundamentals with competencies in software design, data structures, and problem-solving • 3 or more years of React.js and Node.js experience • Extensive use of APIs and hands on experience with Redis • Experience in SOA, REST, Micro Services System Architecture • Deep understanding of React.js and its core principles • Ability to identify and solve JavaScript specific quirks • Understands React under-the-hood, and can architect React design patterns in accordance with the library’s purpose ( e.g. declarative programming ). • Proven experience with Flux or Redux is required • Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript • Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token • Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools • Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc. • Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements • An ability for benchmarking and optimization • Expertise with code versioning tools (Git) • Experience with CSS processors: SASS, LESS and code analysis tools (e.g. JSLint) • Expert knowledge of how browsers work - regarding optimizing page load times, rendering, caching and memory • Experience with Continuous Integration and automated testing strategies • Able to identify anti-patterns and provide refactoring recommendations • Proven experience leading teams of engineers • BS (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related discipline; advanced degree preferred

Behaviors • Self-motivated, independent, organized, and proactive • Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators and stakeholders • Ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies • Ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities in a fast-moving dynamic environment • Collaborates with leadership across multiple teams to define solution requirements and technical implementation • Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities • Contributes to the success of many teams achieving their goals • Develop team’s strategy and prioritize initiatives • Assist in retaining and hiring talented team members