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Description
As a highly experienced and passionate Senior UI/UX Lead at our company, you will be responsible for owning and driving both user experience design and frontend architecture across our product suite. Your role will involve leading design strategy, establishing UI architecture standards, guiding cross-functional teams, and playing a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-quality software solutions while ensuring best-in-class engineering standards. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the end-to-end design and development process, from user research and prototyping to final implementation and delivery. - Architect scalable, modular, and maintainable frontend solutions, including micro frontend frameworks and component-based design. - Drive UX strategy through data-backed insights, usability testing, user journey mapping, and design thinking workshops. - Build and maintain a design system that ensures consistency, accessibility (WCAG compliance), and alignment between design and development. - Define and enforce frontend testing strategies (unit, integration, and E2E) using tools like Jest, Cypress, and React Testing Library. - Implement frontend observability practices including real user monitoring, performance tracking, and error logging (e.g., Sentry, Datadog). - Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance applications. - Implement trunk-based development practices to enable continuous integration and rapid delivery. - Develop clean, maintainable, and testable code following SOLID principles and software design best practices. - Ensure high levels of unit test coverage, test-driven development (TDD), and behavior-driven development (BDD). - Actively contribute to hands-on coding, code reviews, and refactoring to maintain high engineering standards. **Engineering Excellence & Best Practices:** - Drive the adoption of modern engineering ways of working, including Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD. - Advocate for automated testing, infrastructure as code, and continuous monitoring to enhance software reliability. - Apply Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and unit testing to ensure code quality and functionality. - Conduct thorough code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices in readability, performance, and security. - Implement and enforce secure coding practices, performing vulnerability assessments, and ensuring compliance with security standards. - Collaborate effectively in agile environments, embracing DevOps principles and fostering a culture of continuous delivery and improvement. **Technical Leadership & Collaboration:** - Partner with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to design scalable and distributed systems. - Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning. - Collaborate closely with DevOps teams to optimize deployments, observability, and production resilience. - Lead technical discussions, contribute to design documentation, and provide guidance on modern software architectures. **Qualifications Required:** - 10+ years of experience in UI/UX design and frontend development, with at least 3 years in a leadership/UI architect role. - Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Angular, or similar modern frameworks. - Deep understanding of UI architecture, design patterns, and performance optimization techniques. - Hands-on experience in user research, wireframing, prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch). - Familiarity with design systems, accessibility guidelines, and responsive design principles. - Strong command over version control (Git), CI/CD practices, and agile product development workflows. - Exposure to backend integration, GraphQL/REST APIs. - Experience with frontend monitoring and analytics tools such as Matomo, New Relic - Proficiency in TDD, BDD, and automation-first mindset to ensure high test coverage and reliability. - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices. - Experience conducting code reviews, vulnerability assessments, and secure coding. - Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). - Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in fast-paced, agile environments. - Knowledge of performance tuning, observability, and production monitoring. - Strong communication and collaboration skills.,
