Lead UI Developer

Job Title: Lead UI Developer Location: Charlotte, NC or (Raleigh, Atlanta, Greenville is fine but they should be able to drive & come to Charlotte office as needed on their own cost)
Employment Type: (Full-time or contract)
Duration: Long Term
About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global
Responsibilities:
Job Description:

• We're looking for recent experience with pure React+Typescript, with best practices from React 18 (like no CLASSical components or CLASSical HOCs). Frameworks on top of React (like NextJS) aren't what we're looking for.
• No frameworks. NextJS and other frameworks "on top or React are more a minus, than plus.
• Candidate should have recent experience with Redux and Redux Sagas specifically (not alternatives like Zustand and other state management libraries). It can be ReduxJS Toolkit (also known as RTK), but I will get deep into what it solves and why, and how it works. We're not leveraging RTK too much in our code base.
• Candidate should have experience with working/creating/maintaining basic components (buttons, dropdowns, layouts, etc) without any 3rd party library such as Chakra, MUI, Antd, or others. They ought to be experienced with "styles-in-JS pattern using either styled-components, or @emotion/styled. Preferably including advanced patterns like custom themes, theme mapping and wrappers, mobile responsive components, things like these.
• Experience with latest data routing from react-router-dom is a plus, but not a deal breaker
• Experience with mono repositories will be a plus (NX workspace is a huge plus), but not a deal breaker
• When I'm sure they're familiar enough with things listed above, I WILL ask about architecture layering, it's "why and "how .
• Practiced ownership over their engineering decisions, and being exposed to the autonomy and decision making outside of "what CSS style to apply here

Required "soft skills :

• Strong communication skills
• Should understand and being able to explain what they're doing and how it works.
• Good understanding of a higher level architecture and be able to have reasonable discussion about engineering and architecture conformity of the technical decisions they make.
• Able to take long term consequences into consideration when making decisions.
• Familiarity with technical debt, consequences of having it, and ideas how to avoid having it.

Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.