Front End UI Developer – React.js

Our client delivers data management and reporting solutions complementing our clients’ existing financial technologies and providing dashboards reports and other business intelligence solutions.

We are seeking a talented and experienced front-end developer to lead in the development of our next generation client solution. The ideal candidate will exhibit a positive attitude with capacity for giving and receiving constructive criticism combined with the energy to help move the company forward while rapidly delivering cutting-edge front-end capabilities.

Location: Chicago

Job Responsibilities:

1. Architecting and designing responsive, scalable, reusable, and testable front-end solutions
2. The majority of time will be spent in hands-on development
3. Participating in peer code reviews, pair programming, and other peer-to-peer learning opportunities as part of the Agile sprint team
4. Distributing expertise and skills amongst teammates
5. Migrating, refactoring, and maintaining front end frameworks
6. Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
7. Problem Solving/Analysis
8. Technical Expertise
9. Time Management/Goal Oriented
10. Eager to Grow

Job Qualifications:

1. 5+ years experience in building complex performant frontend applications from scratch
2. Knowledge of best practices in frontend architecture, including performance, accessibility and usability
3. 4+ years of experience with React.js or Vue and a deep understanding of core principles
4. 3+ years of experience in RESTful Web Services development
5. Practical knowledge of design patterns and API design
6. Demonstrate competency with SQL databases
7. Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
8. Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
9. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
10. A knack for benchmarking and optimization to ensure UI response is excellent
11. Experience working in an AGILE environment