Lead Developer IV

Position: Lead Developer IV
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 173652

Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Developer IV to oversee the technical execution of a mobile backend ecosystem for a Customer Self-Service Companion application. The ideal candidate will act as a technical decision-maker, ensuring reliability, alignment with enterprise standards, and hands-on involvement in critical areas. This role requires expertise in mobile architecture, hands-on leadership, and a focus on performance and quality.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and development of an Angular application wrapped with Ionic/Capacitor, including state management, modular design, AWS cloud, and iOS-specific integrations.
• Act as a player/coach by setting coding standards, performing code reviews, mentoring developers, and owning CI/CD iOS builds, signing, and harness pipelines.
• Drive best practices for iOS performance, security, offline support, and UX quality to deliver a stable, production-ready mobile app.
• Own overall system architecture, including mobile backend services, messaging, and data stores.
• Lead design decisions for event-driven architectures, push notifications, real-time updates, and authentication/authorization flows.
• Set development standards and code quality expectations.
• Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum delivery model to ensure quality outcomes.
• Provide guidance on industry best practices, guidelines, and governance for web applications and websites.
• Stay updated on the latest technologies and innovations in web application development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Mastery of modern web technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JS frameworks (e.g., Angular.js, jQuery).
• Experience with responsive web design, cross-browser compatibility, and page optimization.
• Knowledge of SEO concepts and coding for Search Engine Optimization.
• Proficiency in REST APIs, AJAX, XML, XSD, XSL, XPATH, and MVC Frameworks.
• Advanced skills in object-oriented coding and scripting languages such as Java, .NET/C#, PHP, and Ruby.
• Experience with relational database modeling and creating advanced SQL queries/procedures.
• Ability to set up and configure websites with IIS and Apache.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Ability to travel to off-site locations if required.

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Pay Range: $90- $95

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