Lead Front-End React Engineer-Canada

About the job

We are seeking a Lead Front-End React Engineer to develop, architect, and guide the direction of a large, multi-team, React project that is under active development. The ideal candidate is a UI specialist with deep technical knowledge and past experience in technical leadership of other engineers. The candidate will work alongside another engineers to accomplish the following responsibilities.

This is a unique opportunity to work on a large-scale product alongside an experienced team that excels at building, scaling, and sustaining digital products. This position reports to a Development Team Lead.

Qualifications

Essential skills:

• Extensive React engineering experience with a deep understanding of the framework
• Extensive Typescript engineering experience
• Ability to establish and iterate coding standards for a team
• Working knowledge of modern Front-End architecture, particularly involving Micro Frontends and Microservices
• Strong understanding of modern Front-End testing
• Knowledge of AG Grid or a similar table library

Helpful skills:

• Experience developing and maintaining NPM packages
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience optimizing Front-End applications to minimize JavaScript bundle size

The role also requires a voracious appetite to learn and apply new skills. You should be skilled at building web-based software or mobile apps, and excel at learning new languages and frameworks.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Curate the development of the project’s Front-End architecture, component library, and other tooling used by engineers across the project
• Establish and maintain coding standards to assist other engineers in achieve common tasks while sustaining a high bar for code quality
• Mature the project’s existing Front-End testing strategies to strengthen the reliability of the application
• Provide guidance on optimization strategies to build a fast and scalable application
• Mature the project's existing CI/CD pipeline
• Educate and collaborate with other engineers on modern software development best practices
• Build reusable components and hooks to expedite feature delivery

Technical Stack Highlights:

• Languages: Typescript, HTML, SCSS
• Libraries: React, AG Grid, React Query
• Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress
• CI/CD Tools: Github Actions, AWS, Sonar

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has 3+ years of front-end software engineering experience with strong awareness of Full Stack architecture
• Has experience building and scaling large-scale, mission-critical Software Products

Travel Requirements:

This position requires mandatory travel to attend two key company-wide events annually. These events are essential for our organizational goals and provide valuable opportunities for team engagement and collaboration. The company will arrange and cover all travel and accommodation expenses. Additional travel related to the role may also be required, such as travel to client meetings. 

Benefits

• Remote
• Open PTO
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Short/Long Term Disability
• Profit Sharing
• Company Retreats

Company Description

Bellwood is a dynamic Digital Product Development Consultancy. We're a team of developers, designers, product analysts and entrepreneurs that companies turn to when they want to take a software product from conception to creation and beyond.

Our Mission

Bellwood seeks to be and be known as the most trusted partner to Build and Scale software products.

Our Core Values

• We Embrace Your Goals
• We Own our Commitments
• We Succeed through Empathy
• We Take the Next Step

Join our tight-knit team of sharp technologists to leverage your talents and grow your skills. We are looking forward to meeting with you!