Lead Front-End Engineer (React)

About the job

We are seeking a Lead Front-End React Engineer to develop, architect, and guide the direction of a large, multi-team, React project that is under active development. The ideal candidate is a UI specialist with deep technical knowledge and past experience in technical leadership of other engineers. The candidate will work alongside another engineers to accomplish the following responsibilities.

This is a unique opportunity to work on a large-scale product alongside an experienced team that excels at building, scaling, and sustaining digital products. This position reports to a Development Team Lead.

Qualifications

Essential skills:

• Strong understanding of modern Front-End testing
• Ability to establish and iterate coding standards for a team
• Working knowledge of modern Front-End architecture, particularly involving Micro Frontends and Microservices
• Extensive Typescript engineering experience
• Extensive React engineering experience with a deep understanding of the framework

Helpful skills:

• Experience optimizing Front-End applications to minimize JavaScript bundle size
• Knowledge of AG Grid or a similar table library
• Experience developing and maintaining NPM packages
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines

The role also requires a voracious appetite to learn and apply new skills. You should be skilled at building web-based software or mobile apps, and excel at learning new languages and frameworks.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Educate and collaborate with other engineers on modern software development best practices
• Mature the project's existing CI/CD pipeline
• Build reusable components and hooks to expedite feature delivery
• Provide guidance on optimization strategies to build a fast and scalable application
• Mature the project’s existing Front-End testing strategies to strengthen the reliability of the application
• Curate the development of the project’s Front-End architecture, component library, and other tooling used by engineers across the project
• Establish and maintain coding standards to assist other engineers in achieve common tasks while sustaining a high bar for code quality

Technical Stack Highlights:

• Libraries: React, AG Grid, React Query
• Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress
• CI/CD Tools: Github Actions, AWS, Sonar
• Languages: Typescript, HTML, SCSS

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has experience building and scaling large-scale, mission-critical Software Products
• Has 3+ years of front-end software engineering experience with strong awareness of Full Stack architecture

Benefits

• Profit Sharing
• Referral Bonuses
• Short/Long Term Disability
• Unlimited PTO
• Company Retreats
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Remote

Company Description

Bellwood Labs is a dynamic Digital Product Development Consultancy. We're a team of developers, designers, product analysts and entrepreneurs that companies turn to when they want to take a software product from conception to creation and beyond.

Our Mission

Bellwood Labs seeks to be and be known as the most trusted partner to develop and advance software products.

Our Core Values

• We Succeed through Empathy
• We Embrace Your Goals
• We Take the Next Step
• We Own our Commitments

Join our tight-knit team of sharp technologists to leverage your talents and grow your skills. We are looking forward to meeting with you!