Overseas Contractor

Frontend Development Leadership Role

This role will require deep hands-on expertise and leadership skills to help drive alignment consistency across assurance product teams, encourage continuous improvement in our Frontend development work, and work closely with the Motif team to ensure the needs of assurance products are clear to them.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Development Leadership:
  Lead the creation of sophisticated user interfaces for web applications utilizing frameworks such as React, Angular, and methodologies like Web Components.
• Architectural Innovation:
  Architect the user interface layer of our applications to ensure they are resilient, scalable, and easy to maintain.
• Emerging Technology:
  Gain and apply knowledge in emerging technologies like AI to provide improved user experiences and boost productivity and quality in what we do.
• Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with feature teams providing expertise and mentorship to frontend developers and ensure the seamless integration of frontend technologies.
• Responsive Design Implementation:
  Apply responsive design principles to guarantee that our applications deliver a superior user experience on any device.
• Code Quality Assurance:
  Conduct thorough reviews of all frontend code to uphold the highest standards of quality and performance.
• Design
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with the UI/UX design team to transform design concepts into functional user-centric web interfaces.
• Continuous Excellence:
  Champion best practices and continuous enhancement of our products, codebase, processes, and tools.
• Cross-Functional Engagement:
  Coordinate with various team members to meet project objectives and produce outstanding outcomes.
• Prototyping:
  Develop both programmatic and conceptual prototypes to pioneer new features and validate innovative concepts.
• Industry Awareness:
  Stay updated on the latest industry trends, tools, and best practices and disseminate this knowledge within the engineering team.
• Stakeholder Communication:
  Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, feature teams, developers, and UX teams.
• Upskilling and Mentoring:
  Willingness to share knowledge and mentor team members to improve their skills and ensure code quality.
• Scalability Performance:
  Understanding of scalability performance considerations on the user experience by optimizing frontend applications for performance and growth.

Skills and attributes for success

• Advanced technical competency in designing, developing, and executing solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of React, Angular, Web Components, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of Digital Accessibility Requirements.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, Interactive Media, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognition, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Informatics, Design, or related field preferred.
• 10 years of relevant work experience with a concentration in front end design and development.
• 5 years of React, Angular, Web Component, JavaScript experience.
• Expert in HTML.
• Expert in CSS.
• 3 years of experience with Figma and Adobe.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to lead and task manage software engineers and provide appropriate level of guidance and oversight to ensure delivery of engineering deliverables.
• A firm grasp of design concepts such as Responsive Design, Progressive Enhancement, Adaptive Rendering, and Minimal Download Strategy.
• Strong understanding on user interface performance optimization techniques.
• Experience working in Agile Development Methodologies and frameworks.