React Lead

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Job DescriptionWe are looking for a hands-on and experienced Senior React Front End Developer to build scalable performant and reusable frontend solutions for modern web applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in React, JavaScript, TypeScript and contemporary UI engineering practices. Experience with Storybook for component development and Angular as a secondary framework is a plus. This role also includes mentoring junior developers contributing to solution design and ensuring adherence to frontend best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Front End Development:

Develop and maintain reusable UI components using React TypeScript JavaScript ES6 HTML5 CSS3SCSS and JSON

Build modular and maintainable UI libraries and component systems

Write and maintain unit tests using tools like Jest React Testing Library or similar frameworks

Integrate RESTful APIs and manage asynchronous data flows Promises asyncawait Axios Fetch

Ensure responsive accessible WCAG and high performance frontend implementations

Use Storybook to build document and test UI components in isolation

Upgrade and manage JavaScript and npm dependencies ensuring security and stability

Ensure cross browser compatibility and optimized rendering performance

Architecture Solution Design:

Collaborate with architects and backend developers to design scalable frontend architectures

Participate in technical solution design and make key decisions around component structure state management and performance optimization

Contribute to establishing and evolving coding standards tooling and frontend best practices

Leadership Mentorship:

Lead and mentor junior frontend engineers assisting them in improving skills and code quality

Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback

Promote a collaborative high quality engineering culture

Collaboration Delivery:

Work closely with UXUI designers QA teams and product stakeholders to deliver high quality digital experiences

Participate in Agile ceremonies sprint planning estimations standups retrospectives

Support troubleshooting debugging and performance tuning across environments

Required Qualifications:

7 years of frontend development experience with strong hands on expertise in

React TypeScript JavaScript ES6

HTML5 CSS3SCSS JSON

Experience in building component based architectures and reusable UI systems

Strong understanding of state management Redux Zustand Recoil or similar

Experience using Storybook for UI component development and documentation

Familiarity with CICD Git workflows and modern build tools Webpack Vite Babel

Strong understanding of responsive design accessibility WCAG and cross browser compatibility

Experience in mentoring conducting code reviews and providing technical leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Angular as a secondary frontend framework

Knowledge of frontend performance optimization and modern rendering patterns

Exposure to analytics or personalization tools eg Adobe Analytics Google Analytics

Experience in insurance or other regulated industries.