Lead UI developer

Job Description

We are looking for an AngularJS Lead responsible for the client side of our service. Your primary focus will be to own the end to end implementation of complete user interface in the form of a mobile and desktop web app, with a focus on performance. You will lead a team of Offshore and onsite front end developer and guide and review their work. Your duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app. The artistic design will be delivered to you, together with a few HTML templates, but we will ask for your help in regard to animations, CSS, and final HTML output. You will work in a team with the back-end developer, and communicate with the API using standard methods. A thorough understanding of all of the components of our platform and infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of onsite and offshore angular developers

• Participating in architectural discussions related to Front end Design

• Delivering a complete front end application

• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop

• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself

• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

• Communicating with external web services

Skills and Qualifications

• 10+ Years of experience

• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5

• Professional, precise communication skills

• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience

• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system

• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times

• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS

• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets

• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts

• Reviewing the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks

• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments