Principle Frontend Engineer in Bayern bei The Product Guys

This is a remote position.

looking for a technically savvy and experienced Principal Engineer to take up front-end development efforts. You will design and develop elegant interfaces that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit. You will collaborate on scalability issues involving visualizing massive amounts of data and information. You will identify, define and communicate best practices for front end.

You are passionate about building secure, high-performing and scalable front-end applications. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have demonstrated strong inter-personal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct UI/UX team, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Translate wireframes into functional requirements, write well-abstracted, reusable, high-performance code for UI components
• Work closely with design, product management and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies
• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high-powered desktop computers to low-end mobile devices
• Understand and coach/teach others, show a high level of ethics and team-work

Requirements

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• 7 to 10 years of experience in developing responsive, elegant, efficient and cross-browser front-end applications using Javascript, HTML5, CSS3
• Hands on experience on various MVC frameworks, UI libraries such as ReactJS, D3.js
• Hands on experience on Map API’s like Google Maps, Openstreetmap and other powerful information-rich maps
• Familiar with UX processes and design
• Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision making skills