Frontend Software Engineer

Front-end Software Engineer

Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX Hybrid – onsite 2-3 days per week, WFH 2-3 days per week

Position Summary:

This role is open with a financial services company. Our team is looking for a Front-end Software Engineer to help define and drive the front-end vision across all product engineering teams. You will client the foundation of what the best in-class front-end architecture looks like in collaboration with our front-end engineers, designers and product managers while keeping our front-end tech stack up to date with the front-end community. This role in the central UX/UI team will serve as a partner to all Product Dev teams and set the standard by which technology will be delivered.

Responsibilities:

• Drive front-end engineering practices, design patterns, and standards.
• Design, develop, test, debug and maintain UI Container Application - Single Client Exterior (SCE).
• Work with Product team UI Devs in adoption of a micro-frontend architecture, troubleshooting and problem-solving user interface challenges from both a development and design perspective.
• Maintaining and communicating CI/CD Pipeline Templates (Jenkins) and Base Images (Docker) for Micro-frontends utilized across product engineering teams.
• Build on our Design System leveraging ReactJS, Storybook and Figma. Work with Product team UI Devs to enhance and refactor components for reuse and contribution to the larger Design System.
• Champion reusability, best practice component design & execution, and accessibility within the business while acting as a primary contributor.
• Evaluating third-party UI packages and champion the security assessment and procurement processes.
• Engage security engineering for testing and compliance with security controls.
• Continual learning of emerging technologies/industry trends — Service Workers, React Lazy, Suspense, Intersection Observers, Web Components etc.
• Provide leadership to UI Devs, while also mentoring on standards and best practices for the DEV/Architecture community here.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications
• Strong experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, preferably ReactJS and/or NodeJS
• Strong understanding of web security - OAuth / Authentication / Authorization
• Experience with Micro-front-ends architecture, Single SPA framework, and module federation

Nice to have:

• Experience with Git, Agile and CI/CD techniques, and deployment strategies
• Experience in using front-end observability and testing tools to monitor, troubleshoot and identify performance issues
• Understanding of WCAG accessibility compliance