Senior Front-End Architect for Scalable React Apps

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech recruiting firm in Boston is seeking an experienced engineer to join their application development team. The successful candidate will architect and implement new features in a high-scale web application. Ideal candidates should have over 3 years of experience with modern web applications, particularly using React. A proactive problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced startup culture is preferred.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building high-scale modern web applications.
• Experience with TDD/BDD patterns in modern JavaScript development.
• Extensive experience with React and componentized front-end development.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the product team to architect and develop new features.
• Spearhead migration of the application to React.
• Improve team velocity and reliability by introducing better development processes.

Skills

Building high-use, high-scale web apps

Architecting on the fly

Problem-solving

Fast, reliable, and scalable products

Tools

React

Meteor.js

Job description

We are looking for a sharp, experienced, driven engineer who wakes up every day eager to help build the best possible scaling production web/mobile/platform apps. This person will join our application development team and be responsible for architecting and implementing new features in our hybrid front-end application used by thousands of people every day.

You’ll be a good fit if:
1. You love building high-use, high-scale web apps
2. You have strong opinions and aren’t afraid to share them
3. You can architect on the fly and quickly build fast, reliable, and scalable products
4. You are proactive about solving problems and already thinking 100 steps ahead to make our product better
5. You are at your best when you are in the zone, pounding out code

Day to day responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
1. Work closely with product team to architect and develop new features for all three sides of our market (small/medium-sized businesses, job sources/aggregators, and customers)
2. Spearhead migration of Meteor/Blaze hybrid (responsive) application to React
3. Improve team velocity and reliability by introducing and enforcing better development processes and patterns