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Description
You will be responsible for managing the performance and career development of a team of UI engineers at CommerceIQ. Your role will involve owning significant parts of CommerceIQ's UI applications, requiring strategic design, architecture, and high-quality implementation. You will lead the development of next-generation web applications, ensuring they are efficient, reusable, and focused on customer delight. Guiding the team on technical execution will be a key aspect of your job, as well as overseeing the exploration and design of dynamic, compelling consumer experiences to set standards for user interface quality and innovation. Additionally, you will be guiding the team in architecting, developing, and testing highly interactive front-end web applications and reusable components using modern web technologies and frameworks such as React and Vue.js. Identifying, defining, and communicating best practices for UI application architecture to ensure scalability and maintainability will be crucial. You will participate in developing a long-term technology roadmap with senior management, emphasizing intuitive and high-quality UI solutions while fostering a culture of action, innovation, and high standards in user experience and code quality as a role model and professional coach for UI engineers. Collaboration with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack, ensuring seamless integration of UI components with backend systems, will be essential. You will manage teams to scale distributed UI applications, make architectural trade-offs applying appropriate design patterns, oversee code reviews, and ensure delivery with speed and quality. Ensuring the team produces high-quality UI software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration is also a key responsibility. Furthermore, you will collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend developers to align UI solutions with business needs, prioritizing and executing based on company goals. Acting as the custodian of UI development processes and SDLC best practices, ensuring the team adheres to high standards in debugging, performance optimization, and testing, will be part of your role. You will also own hiring goals for the UI team, recruiting top talent to build a high-performing team and take delivery and technical ownership of all UI-related roadmap and technical items to ensure alignment with CommerceIQ's innovation culture. Requirements for this role include strong expertise in a frontend stack, modern web frameworks, proficiency in statically typed languages, in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, familiarity with HTML, CSS, and CSS post-processors, and experience in overseeing debugging and web application performance optimization. You should have at least 8 years of relevant engineering work experience, with a focus on UI design, architecture, and coding, as well as experience in architecting and delivering complex user interfaces and managing small to medium-sized UI teams. Additionally, you should have a track record of partnering with recruiting to hire exceptional UI engineering teams, actively coaching and mentoring team members, and practicing SDLC best practices in UI development and agile methodologies. A strong believer in an innovation culture and engineering-driven UI ideas, you should have experience in release management and agile methodologies for UI development, as well as familiarity with ES6, Node.js, npm, Webpack, testing frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, Cypress, or Jest, and the creation and execution of technical strategy and roadmap for UI components. Your passion for elegant, reusable, and highly performant UI code will be an asset in this role.,
