Senior UI Architect

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:

• Love building high-use, high-scale web apps
• Have strong opinions and aren’t afraid to share them
• Can architect on the fly and quickly build fast, reliable, and scalable products
• Proactive about solving problems and already thinking 100 steps ahead to make our product better
• Best when in the zone, pounding out code

Day to day responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• 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)
• Spearhead migration of Meteor/Blaze hybrid (responsive) application to React
• Improve team velocity and reliability by introducing and enforcing better development processes and patterns

Requirements:

• Must be local and work in our Boston, MA office daily
• 3+ years building high-scale modern web applications
• Experience with TDD/BDD patterns in modern JavaScript development
• Extensive experience with React and componentized, decoupled front-end development
• Experience/exposure to Meteor.js is a plus but by no means a requirement
• Comfortable in a fast pace, high pressure, start-up culture that expects great things every day