Sr. Principal Software Architect

Job Summary

Are you a front-end architect passionate about crafting exceptional user experiences on mobile devices? Do you thrive on challenges involving data-rich applications and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)?  

  

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced front-end Architect to lead the development of our next generation application. In this role you will be the driving force behind the application’s architecture, ensuring it delivers a delivers a seamless, intuitive, and performant experience for users on the go. You will leverage your deep expertise in React, NodeJS/Express, PWA development principles, and mobile optimization techniques to create a solution that empowers the users of our application to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.  

  

If you are a visionary architect who can translate complex business requirements into elegant, user-centered designs and lead a team to bring those designs to life, we want to hear from you.  

Responsibilities

• Architectural leadership: Define and champion the front-end architecture for our solution with a strong focus on React-based PWAs optimized for mobile. 
• UX Vision: Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements and detailed UX mocks into a compelling and user-friendly user interface. 
• Technical design and development: Design, develop, or enhance existing re-useable UI components and modules, with a focus on performance, scalability and maintainability. 
• PWA expertise: Leverage your deep understanding of PWA principals to create an application that offers an app-like appearance on the web, including push notification and background synchronization capabilities. 
• Mobile optimization: Employe best-in-class mobile optimization techniques to ensure application performs flawlessly on a wide range of devices and network conditions. 
• Data visualization: Design intuitive and effective data visualization strategies to help users quickly understand and act on large datasets. 
• Best practices and standards: Establish and enforce front-end development best practices, coding standards and testing strategies. 
• Mentoring and Guiding: Mentor and guide front-end engineers, providing technical leadership. 
• Collaboration: Work closely with back-end engineers to ensure seamless integration with backend systems. 

Qualifications

• Master's degree in technical field with 8+ years of experience   
• Extensive experience in front-end development with a focus on building complex, data-driven and mobile friendly web applications.  
• Deep expertise in React and the React ecosystem (Redux, state management, routing etc.)  
• Proven track record of building and deploying successful PWAs  
• Strong understanding of mobile first design principles and responsive web development techniques.  
• Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, NodeJS, Typescript and related front-end technologies.  
• Solid understanding of front-end performance optimization techniques.  
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and back-end integration.  
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills.  
• Ability to articulate a clear technical vision.  

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