Position: UI / Frontend Developer
Location: Houston, TX
Interview: Online
Type: Contract
Year of Exp: 8+ Years
Required Skills:
We’re looking for a Frontend Engineer to lead a team of curious, diverse engineers and build modern user experiences in a highly autonomous, collaborative setting.
Responsibilities
• Lead frontend delivery, setting a high bar for code quality, reliability, and user experience.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices across architecture, testing, and documentation.
• Partner closely with product, UX, and backend teams to translate outcomes into scalable UI solutions.
• Establish strong engineering hygiene: pull request workflows, design reviews, and test automation.
• Promote responsible use of AI-assisted engineering (e.g., Copilot/agentic tools) to improve velocity and quality.
Required Qualifications
• BS/BA degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including 3+ years with React and TypeScript.
• Expert proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the React ecosystem.
• Experience with frontend architecture patterns at scale (e.g., Micro Frontends) and monorepo tooling (e.g., Nx).
• Strong testing mindset, including unit/functional/integration testing.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills in Agile delivery environments.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience improving coding velocity and quality using GenAI and agentic tools (e.g., Copilot); experience integrating LLM capabilities into engineered solutions is a plus.
• Experience with NGINX and modern deployment patterns.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs and working effectively with microservices.
• Experience building cloud-native applications (AWS/Azure/Pivotal or similar) and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
• Engineering experience in fintech (Investment Banking or Capital Markets preferred).
