UI Lead with React Experience

 UI Lead with React Experience
Location: Chicago IL or Houston TX

Long Term contract 

Hybrid Role 

Qualifications:
•Client is looking for a Senior React Developer with six to ten years of experience in developing customized product for our clients
•Client needs a motivated individual to challenge the status quo and provide thought leadership/best practices to enhance our current services and technologies
•An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a fast paced, collaborative environment
•Someone that values the “team” and leverages the opinions and expertise of their teammates to deliver quality
•Strong communication skills
•Being able to effectively communicate to Product owner, Enterprise architects, development teams and business and IT stakeholders
•Be able to speak up to set realistic expectations for a project
•Strong programming fundamentals with Advanced OOPS concepts
•ES6 Good understanding of framework lifecycle, events, JavaScript Object modeling, reusable libraries
•Good Expertise in analyzing the Document Object Model (DOM) Layout, DOM Functions, and Java Script functions, Cascading Styles across cross-browser using Fire Bug, Developer Tool Bar
•Overall 8 yrs years of software development experience
•5 years React JS frontend development with backend integration experience (preferably client side)
•Deep understanding of React Architecture, Hooks
•Experienced in working with Redux architecture using complex Object-Oriented concepts in improving the performance of the websites
•Experience in using React JS components, Forms, Events, Keys, Router, plus Redux, Animations and Flux concept
•Experience in development RWD and SPA with React, Redux, Routers, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, GraphQL, ES6, Babel, Express, ESlint
•Understands Server-Side Rendering, Virtual DOM, Performance optimization, Typescript & Material UI
•Familiarity with integrations patterns and invoke/ consume APIs/ RESTful Services/ OData API using NodeJS, Spring framework
•Experience with Automated Unit, Contract & E2E Testing – Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine, Cypress, Playwright, Wiremock & Pact JS
•Experience in TDD and BDD approach
•Experienced in deploying React Apps using CI/CD pipelines
•Experience working with Container Platforms – Docker & Kubernetes
•Knowledge of deployment concepts of rollout and rollback, webserver, app server deployment, database scripts rollout and monitoring
•Ancillary aspects of software development like IDE, SAFe, Agile, Story development across layers; Digital Engineering and Product Engineering basics
•Experience with customizing build with webpack, rollup & babel

Responsibilities
•The role is expected to drive technology discussions and analyze the current landscape for gaps in addressing business needs
•Frontend/UI Lead - React will be responsible for leading a team of frontend developers focused on design and development of frontend solution across the Digital and Marketing Technology domain, including:
•Should be able should be able to lead a POD of engineers for the React Frontend development project
•Provide mentoring to the junior developers by grooming them development best practices, create client specific developer guidelines and be able to review code and fix them
•Be able to speak up to set the realistic expectations for a project with client and product owner
•Develop a culture of high ownership, technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration
•Co-ordinate with offshore Team to set project expectations, mentor junior members of the team
Benefits
•You will have access to hundreds of technical training to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to obtain certifications on the latest technologies