Context Labs - Cambridge, MA
posted 2 days ago
Full-time - Senior
Cambridge, MA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
About the position
Context Labs is seeking a Principal UI Engineer to help drive the development of our online user experience efforts. As a technical leader on the engineering team, you will help with all aspects of UI design and development. You'll work closely with stakeholders to determine optimal user experiences and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to implement them. This diverse role is expected to have a strong grasp of front-end architecture and development. This position reports directly to the VP of Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Implement scalable, and maintainable technological solutions for UIs.
- Perform frontend design, UI architecture, requirements analysis, investigation of new technologies, and software development.
- Lead the UI team in creating estimates, assist with planning resources and tasks, and track team progress throughout the software development life cycle.
- Collaborate with the rest of the development team and the product owner to define and estimate requirements and be able to translate these into specific development tasks.
- Be hands-on in software development in various projects using front-end-oriented languages, current frameworks, and techniques.
- Lead the UI development team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development.
- Establish and enforce best practices and standards for front-end development including performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Lead by example, act as a role model, coach, mentor and provide continuous feedback to other team members.
- Stay up to date on emerging technologies.
- Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in UI development
- End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures
- Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript, NodeJS, and NPM
- Experience with RESTful API integration
- Proficiency with HTML5 & CSS3
- Expert experience with VueJS 3 and Nuxt 3 required.
- Proficiency in unit and functional testing
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience in a DevOps environment where testing and automation are ingrained in the way you work.
- Experience with CI/CD workflows and tooling like Jenkins
- Experience with internationalization and localization
- Experience with containerization of UI software using Docker.
- Great communication skills
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with backend programming
- Basic understanding of effective data visualization principles
- Knowledge of Cytoscape, D3, Plotly, Vega, echarts, or another data visualization framework
- Experience developing a reusable UI Component library using tools such as Lerna, Storybook
- Experience with accessible UI development
- Experience with Kubernetes based environments
- Experience with iOS, Android, or other Cross Platform development tools
