User Interface Engineer Technical Lead
About The Position
Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC is seeking a User Interface Engineer Technical Lead in Atlanta, Georgia. This role involves providing technical leadership to drive architecture, design, performance, and code quality in alignment with departmental vision. The position requires active participation in Scrum teams for design, development (including POCs), testing, and deployment, utilizing responsive web development principles. The lead will assist in defining the department's role in corporate strategy, set aligned objectives, and promote high technical excellence within the IT development staff. Responsibilities include maintaining communication with project teams, verifying designs, adjusting solution architecture, defining and promoting best practices for continuous improvement in resilience, quality, scalability, and performance, and ensuring adherence to technical excellence standards and relevant certifications. The lead will also ensure engineers have the necessary training and tools to perform optimally and deliver quality software. Anticipating future technology needs based on business requirements, participating in the selection and rollout of new technologies, and defining relevant technical skills (patterns, security, resilience, programming languages, certifications, performance, software design, documentation) are also key aspects of the role. Collaboration with the UX design team to achieve the best end-user experience, designing and implementing React-based UI components for highly interactive user experiences, driving API definition for back-end communication, and optimizing front-end applications for speed, scalability, and reuse are essential. The role also includes leading offshore engineering teams to ensure satisfaction of functional requirements, minimum quality and performance standards, and code stability.
Requirements
- Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major internet applications and systems.
- Must have 6 years of experience in working through the full software development lifecycle, including design, functional and technical requirements, coding, debugging, testing, release, and operational support.
- Must have 6 years of experience in realizing applications from conception and design to implementation and support.
- Must have 6 years of experience in using agile software development methodologies, modern API and service design, and object-oriented programming methodologies.
- Must have 6 years of experience in following software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Must have 6 years of experience in communicating technical issues to technical, non-technical, and management groups and presenting to senior leadership and team members.
- Must have 6 years of experience in developing software or information systems, including developing transactional applications in heterogeneous environments and architectures for multi-user systems.
- Must have 6 years of experience in using CI/CD toolkits, including Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and building Single Page Applications (SPA), Web and RESTful services, and event-driven architecture.
- Must have 6 years of experience in working with UI technologies HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and REACT, and using version control, including Git and Stash.
- In lieu of a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience as stated, employer will accept a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience as stated, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership to all teams in the domain to drive architecture, design, performance and code quality in alignment with vision and direction set for the department/across departments.
- Actively participate within the Scrum teams to design, develop (write POCs), test and deploy software.
- Use responsive web development principles and best practices.
- Assist in determining the role of the department in the overall corporate strategy and set objectives that are aligned with this role.
- Promote and ensure a high level of technical excellence in our IT development staff that is in keeping with a high-performing organization.
- Maintain continual communication with assigned project teams, verifying what was designed was built and adjusting the solution architecture as appropriate throughout the project.
- Help define and promote best practices and guidelines to ensure continuous improvement in resilience, quality, scalability and performance within the engineering staff.
- Ensure that standards are followed for technical excellence, including relevant certifications.
- Help ensure Engineers have the relevant training and tools required to perform optimally within a high-performing organization and to deliver quality software products.
- Anticipate future technology needs based on business requirements and participate in the selection and roll out of new technologies and tools.
- Help to define relevant technical skills needed, including patterns, security, resilience, programming languages, certifications, performance, software design, documentation, etc.
- Collaborate with UX design team to drive for the best possible end-user experience.
- Design and implement React based UI components for highly interactive user experience.
- Drive API definition for communication to back-end.
- Optimize front-end applications for speed, scalability and reuse.
- Lead offshore engineering teams to ensure satisfaction of functional requirements, minimum quality and performance, and code stability.
Benefits
- health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- retirement planning (401(k))
- paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
- flexible vacation with pay
- seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
