Lead Frontend Engineer

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Requirements:

• Must have 8+ years of software engineering industry experience
• Experience in technical leadership, guiding engineering teams in architecture, best practices, and complex problem-solving
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Experience working with React / Next.js
• Experience working with NodeJS and Express applications
• Experience working with design systems (e.g. Bootstrap, Salesforce Lightning, GitHub Primer)
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Design
• Good understanding of web performance and how browsers and DOM work
• Experience with SQL is a big plus

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and direction to the team, helping define the team’s roadmap, architecture, processes, and best practices
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code. Leave the code in a better state than when you found it (progressive refactoring).
• Perform thoughtful code reviews for colleagues to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Unblock, support and effectively communicate cross functionally in order to achieve results
• Evangelize appropriate tech and engineering best practices, and occasionally give internal or external tech talks
• Participate in hiring activities: take part in technical interviews, live coding, share detailed feedback to hiring best technical talent in the function
• Act as a mentor to other developers on the team