Principal Software Engineer - Front-End Specialist

Principal Software Engineer - Front-End Specialist

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Principal Software Engineer - Front-End Specialist

Irvine, CA

Direct Hire with Client

Job ID 2021-5296

Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious cloud-based company, in their search for a

Principal Software Engineer - Front-End Specialist. This is a direct-hire opportunity and will be based out of Irvine, CA.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a passion and expertise for Front-End technologies and React ecosystems. This role will be the expert senior resource covering front-end engineering functions across multiple teams and ensure that the client solution will have a modern, elegant, and awesome user experience while keeping the technical solution scalable, maintainable, and reliable. This role will also lead and mentor front-end engineers, consult and collaborate with other principal engineers to influence or drive front-end technical and architectural decisions and roadmap.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree (Computer Science) or equivalent.
• 10 + years of experience in software engineering in a fast-paced environment with most recent 8+ years in front-end development for a microservice-based solution.
• Expert level with React and React ecosystem is a must.
• Advanced experience with front-end testing and fully comfortable with Hands-on experience developing applications deployed using public cloud infrastructures such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
• Advanced understanding of design patterns and coding practices especially as applied to front-end concerns.
• Strong understanding of modern CICD methodology and Git-based workflow.
• Good understanding of application security, authentication, and authorization.
• Thrive in a fast-paced and at times chaotic environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of Docker technologies including experience in optimizing Docker image and managing Docker image lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of Microservices architecture style.
• Strong understanding of software development and lifecycle management.
• Good knowledge of software release tooling to include but not limited to Bitbucket, Gitlab, GitHub, Circle-CI.
• Good knowledge of web and front-end testing frameworks or tools in the React ecosystem as well as hands-on experience with applying TDD/BDD to Front-end software engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Work with product and technology teams to understand roadmap priorities, innovate and evolve front-end feature sets for client products.
• Drive design and implementation decisions based on sound engineering design principles and best practices.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads to make sound technical decisions and help build effective engineering practices.
• Champion good software engineering habits (e.g., clean code principles, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and agile habits) and apply pragmatic software design patterns to solve front-end engineering challenges.
• Own, diagnose, and resolve front-end technical issues and code defects.
• Produce design and code that focuses on user experience, testability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Propose and drive the design and engineering enhancement to improve the front-end technical solution.
• Collaborate with other principal engineers to establish an engineering community of excellence (COE) to evangelize architecture, code or security reviews, innovative engineering, and knowledge sharing.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and lifelong learning.
• Identify and work with SRE to implement opportunities for automation to enhance efficiency in the software delivery cycle and the reliability of the Client product.
• Maintain a strong understanding of front-end engineering innovation to contribute to Client product architecture and solution.
• Other duties as assigned.

About the Client
This position is with one of our prestigious Clients. A leading cloud-based company based out of Irvine, CA.

About Solugenix
For over 50 years, Solugenix has been a global technology development and services firm with locations in California, Arizona, India, and the Dominican Republic. As a pioneer in Professional Staffing and IT Consulting, we have partnered with some of the biggest global corporations across many industries. Our history was built on a foundation of partnerships with global brands like McDonald’s, Microsoft, CIT Group, Johnson & Johnson, Herbalife, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and many others who look to Solugenix to be their trusted partner in providing professional staffing, non-IT, and IT solutions.
We live our core values in everything that we do, starting with “doing the right thing” for our employees/contractors and “committing to client success”. This is a big part of how we continue to make lists like “2019 Forbes Small Giants”. We also forge strategic partnerships with vendors and corp-to-corp candidates (C2C) that share our core values and encourage you to partner with us.
In addition to generating ground-breaking, industry-defining solutions for our clients and our own projects, we partner with clients with whom we share core values and a common professional culture to help them find talent for their valuable opportunities. At Solugenix, we invest in the personal development and growth of every individual. While this is a position with one of our esteemed clients, Solugenix will continue to invest in your personal growth and development, providing you with a successful career as well as ensuring client success.