Y Media Labs - Associate Director - Next.js/React.js/TypeScript (16-21 yrs)

Job Description :

As an Associate Director, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical leadership, hands-on coding, ensuring successful delivery, and fostering a collaborative team environment.

You will act as a trusted advisor to clients and stakeholders while mentoring and developing the next generation of technology leaders.

This role demands a combination of strategic thinking, hands-on technical expertise, managing multiple client accounts and strong leadership capabilities to lead innovative projects and contribute to organizational growth.

WHAT YOU'LL DO :

- Hands-on development of user-focused immersive, responsive web applications; advocating for clean code, testing, process refinements, and continuous improvements

- Leverage advanced TypeScript/JavaScript frameworks (NextJS, React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc) as well as modern styling frameworks (Tailwind, MUI, CSS Modules, etc) on modern content, commerce, or custom applications

- Take ownership of end-to-end delivery for critical projects, ensuring technical excellence and timely execution.

- Provide strategic direction on architecture, design, and technology adoption.

- Contribute to Technical Approach documents and propose plan to implement the solution technically to deliver within the budgeted timeline

- Build and nurture relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring alignment of technical solutions with business needs.

- Experience with North America clients preferred.

- Demonstrate exemplary leadership skills by fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-energy work environment.

- Lead the ideation and development of innovative solutions that add value to projects and align with organizational goals.

- Groom and mentor the next generation of technical leaders within the organization.

- Work on all aspects of web products, including implementation of the design wireframes, animation/motion, business logic, interfaces to the backend APIs, incorporating analytics & SEO, performance and security, CI/CD pipelines

- Implement best practices for maintaining high standards of quality delivery.

- Optimize user interfaces for performance, scalability, and accessibility, ensuring a seamless user experience across devices and screen sizes

- Define, validate, implement, and test your approach to building scalable and performant software

- Collaborate with our design and product teams to identify and implement innovative technology solutions that enhance customer experiences and drive conversion

- Work with the quality assurance team to setup and complete testing activities in scope for the project

- Setup necessary deployment pipelines and environments in collaboration with DevOps

- Develop, and maintain reusable web software components/libraries for internal use to maximize development efficiency

- Be proactive and results-oriented with a strong desire to learn and grow

- Act as a product evangelist with a deep curiosity about technology trends

- Cultivate a collaborative working environment and a culture of technical ownership

WHAT YOU'LL NEED :

- 16-21 years of total experience out of which 5+ years of hands-on experience building web applications using TypeScript (NextJS, React)

- Proven track record of successfully managing technical delivery and leading teams to achieve ambitious goals.

- Strong experience in stakeholder management and building client trust.

- Deep expertise in architecture, design, and emerging technologies with a consultative approach.

- Experience mentoring and developing technical talent, with a passion for growing leadership skills within teams.

- Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and align technical solutions with organizational strategy.

- 4+ years of experience in setting up and maintaining web servers.

- Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript ES6

- Proficiency in Tailwind, Bootstrap and SCSS is a must

- Proficiency in React state management libraries like Redux, Zustand and XState.

- Experience using component library like Radix UI, ShadCN

- Experience in building reusable code and libraries

- Proven record of building large frontend applications with focus on scalability, performance and accessibility (a11y)

- Experience handling multiple client accounts and successful delivery of projects with high code quality and on time delivery.

- Experience with API integrations including REST or GraphQL

- Experience troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, hosting services

- Experience managing the full SDLC in version control systems (Git, GitHub) and modern development workflows (Agile, SCRUM)

- Experience building cross browser compatibility applications that work seamlessly across all browsers

- Exposure to Cloud services like AWS, Azure, GCP

- Experience with at least one headless CMS (Contentful, Sanity, or similar) with SSR

- Experience collaborating effectively within an agile development environment

- Experience addressing client concerns, providing regular updates, and maintaining trust through transparent communication.

- Experience leading the team through challenges, aligning efforts toward common goals, and driving the team to the finish line.

- Guiding the teams on best practices, emerging technologies, and innovative approaches to achieve business objectives.

- Fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation within the team.

- Identify and nurture talent to build high-performing teams.

- Must be a clear communicator and represent projects with internal and external stakeholders with technical fluency

- Solid foundation in building scalable and performant systems

- Able to mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical decision-making.

- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

NICE TO HAVE :

- Experience implementing performant Animations using libraries like Framer Motion, React-spring

- Experience with Angular / Vue and Data Visualisation frameworks like D3 or Highcharts preferred

- Experience using Vercel

- Experience with Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

- Expert understanding of web accessibility with animation