Lead Digital Development & UX Engineering

Academy Sports + Outdoors; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Academy Sports + Outdoors is seeking a seasoned Front-End Engineering Lead to drive the development of high-quality web experiences across devices. You will partner with product, design, and engineering teams to define UI patterns, build reusable components, and ensure accessibility and performance.

You’ll apply Scrum/Agile practices, mentor a UI development team, and advocate user-centered design while delivering scalable web properties and collaborating to meet timelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development across multiple platforms including ecommerce.
• 3+ years of experience leading a team.
• 3+ years IT experience in the retail industry preferred
• Experience with Scrum and Agile methodologies

Responsibilities

• Provide team management, leadership, and direction.
• Collaborate with business, engineering, and support teams to resolve operational issues.
• Define common UI pattern libraries with collaboration from design team.
• Define and build reusable component library.
• Work with designers and developers accountable to maintain standard UI pattern library.
• Advocate of User Centered Design principles and processes
• Develop digital web properties with emphasis on providing exceptional user experience including agility through responsive design.
• Participate in resource demand and planning processes and drive Code Quality initiatives.
• Development representative to stakeholders outside of the team, and the go-to individual for day-to-day front-end technology questions
• Oversee the UI development team Maintain and enhance current UI architecture to improve usability, performance, and scalability.
• Drive software development activities to meet schedules and timelines.
• Research problems discovered by QA or product support and develop solutions to the problems.
• Conduct unit testing and integration testing for functionality
• Work with documentation and internal teams to deliver high-quality, complete software releases.

Skills

Front-end development

Responsive web design

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery

React, Bootstrap, Angular

CMS: AEM, WordPress, Drupal

UX, SEO, accessibility

Agile/Scrum

Component libraries & UI patterns

Cross-functional collaboration

Web performance optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Digital Media/Web Design or relevant field of study preferred

Tools

AEM

WordPress

Drupal

Job description

Academy Sports + Outdoors is seeking a seasoned Front-End Engineering Lead to drive the development of high-quality web experiences across devices. You will partner with product, design, and engineering teams to define UI patterns, build reusable components, and ensure accessibility and performance.

You’ll apply Scrum/Agile practices, mentor a UI development team, and advocate user-centered design while delivering scalable web properties and collaborating to meet timelines.