Senior Front-End Lead (React+Next) – Hybrid Pittsburgh

CEI; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Job summary

CEI is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to support an application development initiative for a Banking and Financial Services client. The position is part of a planned four-person front-end development team consisting of two senior and two mid-level developers.

The team will focus on designing, developing, and delivering modern enterprise web applications, with senior team members providing technical leadership, establishing development standards, and mentoring other developers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional front-end/web development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of complex front-end applications using React and Next.js.
• Translate business requirements into intuitive, secure, and scalable user experiences while collaborating with product owners, UX/UI designers, architects, back-end engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Develop scalable, reusable, maintainable, and high-performance UI components and application architectures.
• Make architectural decisions involving state management, component architecture, routing, rendering strategies, caching, performance, and scalability.
• Leverage Next.js capabilities including server-side rendering, static generation, server components, routing, middleware, and API integration where appropriate.
• Build applications involving complex workflows, forms, search, document management, dashboards, and data-intensive interfaces.
• Design and implement integrations with enterprise REST APIs and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Establish front-end development standards, reusable patterns, and best practices across the development team.
• Establish and maintain front-end testing strategies using appropriate unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks.
• Conduct code reviews focused on quality, security, performance, and maintainability, while providing technical guidance to other developers.
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers and contribute to the growth of the front-end engineering practice.
• Identify technical risks and resolve application performance, usability, reliability, and scalability issues.
• Ensure applications meet enterprise standards for security, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams on CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Evaluate new front-end technologies and provide recommendations regarding their adoption.
• Participate in technical design reviews, architecture discussions, sprint planning, and Agile development activities.
• Communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Take ownership of deliverables from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and production support with limited direction.

Skills

React

Next.js

Architecture

REST/GraphQL

Git

Testing

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Jest

React Testing Library

Playwright/Cypress

Storybook

Material UI

Tailwind CSS

Docker

Job description

CEI is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to support an application development initiative for a Banking and Financial Services client. The position is part of a planned four-person front-end development team consisting of two senior and two mid-level developers.

The team will focus on designing, developing, and delivering modern enterprise web applications, with senior team members providing technical leadership, establishing development standards, and mentoring other developers.