Lead UI/ Front End developer

Location: Eden Prairie, MN Description: Our client is currently seeking a Lead UI/ Front End developer

• • Provide tech leadership as a senior member of the software engineer team and as part of an Agile scrum team assigned to work on the project
  • Designs, codes, tests, debug, and documents software, and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets business needs
  • Writes automated unit tests for developed code through front end automation tools like Karma/Jasmine
  • Experience with Test driven development and actively using TDD for development.
  • Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of
  • Design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership
  • Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers
  • Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity
  • Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
  • Estimate engineering work effort for engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks
  • Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
  • Drive a quality mindset within the team and evangelize use of TDD and automated unit tests.

• Strong understanding about how browser process and load web pages
• Strong JavaScript fundamentals and its internal processing mechanism
• Prior experience implementing web performance optimization and measuring technique
• Experience analyzing Google search engine report and providing technical recommendation to improve site ranking
• Solid understanding about HTTP protocol
• Solid understanding about browser based storage capabilities
• Solid understanding about web worker, service worker
• Solid understanding about CSS processing and mobile responsive UII

• 2+ years of experience as a lead/Senior developer or leading a team of Engineers
• 4 to 6 years of UI development experience using Angular
• Experience with Test driven development (TDD) and ability to write automated unit tests
• Experience in doing software development in an Agile environment.
• Experience with Maven
• Experience with Groovy