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1872 Consulting

Frontend Software Engineer

1872 Consulting, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290


Front-end Software EngineerChicago, IL or Dallas, TXHybrid

- onsite 2-3 days per week, WFH 2-3 days per week

Position Summary:This role is open with a financial services company. Our team is looking for a Front-end Software Engineer to help define and drive the front-end vision across all product engineering teams. You will Client the foundation of what the best in-class front-end architecture looks like in collaboration with our front-end engineers, designers and product managers while keeping our front-end tech stack up to date with the front-end community. This role in the central UX/UI team will serve as a partner to all Product Dev teams and set the standard by which technology will be delivered.

Responsibilities:

Drive front-end engineering practices, design patterns, and standards.Design, develop, test, debug and maintain UI Container Application - Single Client Exterior (SCE).Work with Product team UI Devs in adoption of a micro-frontend architecture, troubleshooting and problem-solving user interface challenges from both a development and design perspective.Maintaining and communicating CI/CD Pipeline Templates (Jenkins) and Base Images (Docker) for Micro-frontends utilized across product engineering teams.Build on our Design System leveraging ReactJS, Storybook and Figma. Work with Product team UI Devs to enhance and refactor components for reuse and contribution to the larger Design System.Champion reusability, best practice component design & execution, and accessibility within the business while acting as a primary contributor.Evaluating third-party UI packages and champion the security assessment and procurement processes.Engage security engineering for testing and compliance with security controls.Continual learning of emerging technologies/industry trends - Service Workers, React Lazy, Suspense, Intersection Observers, Web Components etc.Provide leadership to UI Devs, while also mentoring on standards and best practices for the DEV/Architecture community here.

Requirements:

7+ years of experience developing and architecting web applicationsStrong experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, preferably ReactJS and/or NodeJSStrong understanding of web security - OAuth / Authentication / AuthorizationExperience with Micro-front-ends architecture, Single SPA framework, and module federationNice to have:

Experience with Git, Agile and CI/CD techniques, and deployment strategiesExperience in using front-end observability and testing tools to monitor, troubleshoot and identify performance issuesUnderstanding of WCAG accessibility compliance