Note: Candidates must be based in one of our technology hub locations: San Francisco (CA), Portland (ME), Dallas (TX), Chicago (IL), New York City (NY), or Seattle (WA).
About The Team
We are seeking an exceptional Staff Front-End Typescript Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our web applications. This is an opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced engineer to make a significant impact on our products and services. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of Typescript, expertise in either React or Angular, and a proven track record of creating federated UI components. Experience leveraging AI in the development process is a significant advantage.
How you’ll make an impact
Team Collaboration
Support applications both during and outside business hours.
Resolve issues and Service Requests quickly and efficiently.
Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends. Contribute to post-deployment application validation. Quickly troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise.
Participate in and lead team conversations, meetings and feature discussions.
Software Design and Architecture
Design application architecture. Others use your designs as examples to use from.
Develop solutions that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable that can be accomplished within the available scope, time and budget.
Perform design and code reviews within the team and across other teams to ensure implementations adhere to goals, industry standards and best practices.
Deliver software that meets requirements by applying knowledge of the product area to provide the best long-term solutions.
Ensure code is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
Increase unit test coverage.
Review requirements to provide meaningful, timely and critical feedback to improve them.
Ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction of WEX.
Estimate and prioritize project requests.
Assist with internal partner initiatives and projects.
Work with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Business Analysts to collaborate on design and delivery decisions.
Project Implementation
Identify and document performance improvements and technical debt.
Reduce the risk of security threats to WEX Health through a strong understanding of security best practices and close collaboration with Security Architects.
Identify new threats and vulnerabilities and work with Architects to evolve mitigation strategies.
Efficiently and effectively implement solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput. Others use your code as an example to learn from.
Product Proficiency
Demonstrate expert level understanding of your team’s product domain and understands multiple product domains outside of your current team.
Act as an internal and external subject matter expert on WEX systems.
Able to describe application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style.
Leadership
Help others complete tasks to accomplish goals.
Step into other roles to ensure project deadlines are met.
Mentor and onboard new Software Engineers ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to become productive quickly.
Participate in the interview process and provide valuable hiring recommendations.
Provide technical and domain guidance to internal and external team members.
Lead multiple features or components through the full software deployment lifecycle, including integration, customer feedback, release, and support phases.
Recommend ways to distribute work across your team to increase development efficiency.
Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments
Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem solving.
Coordinate work efforts and communicate priorities across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments.
These teams may include Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc.
Facilitate team meetings as needed, including scrum master ceremonies, if applicable to the team.
Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.
How you’ll make an impact
Collaborate with stakeholders to learn about our customers biggest challenges.
Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.
Design, test, code, and instrument new solutions.
Strengthen and drive our engineering process with TDD and BDD, Microservice and Vertical Slice Architectures.
Support live applications, promote proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement.
Analyze existing systems and processes to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.
Mentor and learn from your peers, foster continuous learning within your team and organization.
Advise Senior Leadership team on highly complex situations that impact our organization and then lead teams through the initiative, driving excellent quality results and achieving defined OKRs across the organization.
Provide strategic thought leadership on business initiatives using deep technical and business industry expertise.
Experience You’ll Bring
Architect and Implement: Design, develop, and maintain complex, scalable, and performant front-end Typescript applications using React, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
Federated UI Development: Spearhead the creation and maintenance of a library of federated UI components that can be seamlessly shared and reused across multiple applications, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
AI Integration: Research, explore, and implement AI-driven features and enhancements into front-end applications, such as intelligent search, personalized recommendations, and natural language processing.
Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, back-end engineers, and QA, to gather requirements, translate designs into code, and deliver exceptional user experiences.
Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring fast and responsive web applications across various devices and browsers.
Accessibility: Champion accessibility best practices, ensuring that our applications are usable by individuals with disabilities.
Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging front-end technologies, tools, and trends, and proactively identify opportunities to leverage them to enhance our products and development processes.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; OR demonstrable equivalent experience.
Extensive Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on Typescript, React or Angular, and federated UI architectures.
Deep Technical Expertise: A profound understanding of core Typescript concepts, including ES6+, asynchronous programming, and DOM manipulation. Mastery of React or Angular, including state management, component lifecycle, and routing.
AI Proficiency: Demonstrable experience or a strong interest in applying AI and machine learning techniques to front-end development.
Architectural Acumen: Ability to design and implement scalable and maintainable front-end architectures, with a focus on modularity, reusability, and testability.
Problem-Solving Skills: A knack for tackling complex technical challenges and devising creative solutions.
Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Team Player: A collaborative and supportive team player who thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Technology Must-Haves:
Experience with TypeScript
Experience with GraphQL
Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Experience with Agile development methodologies
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