1 Senior User Interface Architect Job

Are you a technology leader capable of conceptualizing, building, and implementing application architecture, as well as owning the efforts of application strategies and roadmap efforts?

Are you passionate about software UI architecture and driven to deliver exceptional solutions?

Can you help Fortune 500 retailers navigate the next generation of digital commerce, marketplace, and platform business strategies?

Are you skilled in a variety of retail and distribution functional areas?

As a UI Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring the success of our retail and B2B customers by applying your engineering expertise and domain knowledge.

Responsibilities

Top five Responsibilities:

1. Architect, Develop and deploy front-end features
2. Collaborate closely with designers, technical leads, application architects, software developers, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver the optimal solution
3. Must have a deep understanding of web service technologies (HTTP, REST, JSON) and design principles
4. Able to research and adopt new technologies quickly in a very dynamic working environment
5. Recommend processes, services, software, and other tools to support business objectives pertinent to user interfaces as well as infrastructure technologies

Additional Responsibilities:

• Familiarity with consuming service-oriented architecture layers and APIs.
• Good experience with highly scalable applications
• Collaborate with delivery teams throughout the design and development phases to guarantee compliance with UI architectural standards and best practices
• Adept with core development, design and direction of application architecture and alignment of architecture with business.
• Extensive knowledge in JavaScript Design & Architectural Patterns
• Design and develop proof of concept prototypes for advanced features and designs
• Evaluate and improve software development and delivery processes with an emphasis on performance optimization approaches.
• Providing technical oversight and performing code reviews for multiple development efforts
• Up-to-date with latest news and technologies about Frontend and Backend
• Familiarity with OWASP security
• Experience of headless commerce implementation
• Create solution requirement document, architectural artifacts, and technical plans
• Excel in delivering high-value solutions in dynamic and ambiguous environments
• Ensure document standards are effectively implemented by the development teams and understood by technology partners
• Advanced knowledge of unit testing best practices and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD)
• Collaborate closely with external clients, product managers, software developers and designers of multiple disciplines
• Promoting cross-team synergy and alignment to optimize code-sharing, improve site performance, and increase speed to market
• Mentor feature teams and remove technical impediments in UI development as shared resource
• Provide optimal solutions for independent deplorability of UIs - like Micro frontends etc.

Qualifications

Education

• Masters or Equivalent Degree in CS/EE
• Overall 14+ years of frontend development experience in client-side UI development.

Technology

• Experience on the following core languages: JavaScript, HTML 5 & CSS
• Strong skills in programming structures, algorithms, design patterns, and standard (W3C) Web UI APIs
• Oriented to details and software best practices & patterns
• Experience with RESTful backend applications (like NodeJS/Express)
• Experience with GraphQL tools (like Apollo)
• Knowledge of the following types of frameworks/libraries/languages:
• Web Application Platforms:
• Experience with React or other Single Page Application libraries.
• ES6+, TypeScript.
• Async Module Definition (like AMD, requireJS, commonJS).
• CSS Pre-Processors (like SASS, LESS).
• Application state management (like Redux).
• Reactive Programming (like RxJS)
• Build tools like Webpack, Gulp, Grunt
• Minification, Aggregation, and Fingerprinting (Gulp/Grunt)
• Node (NPM)
• Experience with frameworks for Server Side Rendering (_NextJS, Express)
• Server-Side Rendering (like Express)
• API documentation using Swagger
• Platforms:
• NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis)
• Testing frameworks (Jasmine, Karma, Protractor)
• Docker & Kubernetes, CircleCI, AWS, Heroku
• Other
• Cross-browser techniques.
• Experience with different databases (SQL/NoSQL)
• Experience with PWA (Progressive Web Apps)
• Debugging with tools like (Chrome Dev Tools, Web Inspector).
• Responsive design implementation across devices, platforms, screens, etc.
• Browser performance auditing and tuning.
• Demonstrated skills using distributed code repositories (Git, Perforce, BitBucket) with code reviews.
• Experience with UNIX systems and terminal
• Experience working within Scrum / Kanban.
• Web Accessibility.

What we can offer you:

• A career with thought leaders who literally wrote the book on Marketplace Best Practices
• A career in the fast-paced world of retail eCommerce, digital marketplaces and platform businesses
• A career with first-movers who are deploying new business models and strategies worldwide
• A career in a flat management structure without a rigid hierarchy and bureaucracy
• A career in a culture that rewards creativity and innovation, risk-taking and teamwork

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Our Core Values: Client Focus, Owning the Outcome, Adaptable, Caring