Description:
Web / React Technical Lead
About Your Role
We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on React technical Lead to serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader across our web and portals development teams. The ideal candidate is a master of modern web development practices and will drive engineering excellence through coaching, consulting, and inspecting code quality across our projects.
This role is critical to upholding the technical standards of our React practice, ensuring best practices are consistently followed in coding, CI/CD implementation, and unit testing.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the go-to expert in React development across multiple teams and projects.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to web developers of all levels.
- Review and inspect code across teams, ensuring alignment with internal standards, industry best practices, and architectural goals.
- Guide and enforce standards for unit testing, test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and code quality metrics.
- Evaluate and optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable build, test, and deployment processes.
- Drive continuous improvement in code performance, maintainability, and scalability.
- Conduct code walkthroughs, brown bag sessions, and technical workshops for ongoing developer enablement.
- Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.
Experience You'll Need To Have
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with deep expertise in React web development
- Proven experience as a technical lead or principal engineer within an agile, product-oriented development environment.
- Strong experience in React, JavaScript frameworks, RESTful APIs, and microservices architectures.
- Advanced knowledge of unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, etc.) and experience driving TDD culture.
- Expertise with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
- Experience with containerization (OpenShift) and cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate and influence across distributed teams.
- Proven ability to audit and improve software quality across a broad base of developers and applications.
Experience That Would Be Great To Have
- Experience in the financial services industry
- Contributions to open-source React projects or technical publications (e.g., blogs, talks, white papers).
- Experience introducing static analysis tools and code quality gates (e.g., SonarQube, PMD).
- Familiarity with performance profiling tools and techniques.
- Exposure to Agile/SAFe methodologies.