Location: Buffalo, NY---Hybrid(3days a week)
This is open for W2 contract and Fulltime both.
We are seeking an extremely strong, hands-on Angular Developer with 7+ years of professional experience to take end-to-end ownership of the application's UI/frontend workstream.
This is a pure Angular/UI-focused position. The ideal candidate must have deep, hands-on experience with modern Angular and the latest stable Angular version, and be capable of taking business requirements and independently converting them into high-quality, production-ready UI code.
The developer will own the frontend/UI implementation, track UI work through JIRA, write and maintain unit test cases, manage source code through GitLab, and work closely with a separate backend team responsible for Python-based microservices and APIs.
Experience with AI-assisted development and GitLab Duo is a plus.
Key Responsibilities
Angular / UI Development
- Take end-to-end ownership of the Angular/UI workstream.
- Develop enterprise-grade web applications using the latest stable version of Angular.
- Maintain strong awareness of current Angular features, APIs, architecture, and recommended development practices.
- Translate business requirements, functional specifications, and UI/UX designs into production-ready Angular applications.
- Build reusable, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality Angular components.
- Implement Angular routing, forms, validation, services, dependency injection, and UI workflows.
- Develop responsive and accessible enterprise user interfaces.
- Troubleshoot complex Angular/UI issues and drive them through resolution.
- Participate in frontend architecture and technical design decisions.
- Continuously modernize and improve Angular applications as the framework evolves.
Requirements-to-Code Ownership
- Analyze requirements and independently determine the appropriate Angular implementation.
- Convert requirements into UI components, workflows, screens, and technical tasks.
- Identify requirement gaps and clarify functional expectations with product and business teams.
- Estimate UI development effort and track work through completion.
- Take responsibility for delivering complete, production-ready functionality.
- Ensure the implementation accurately reflects business requirements and UX expectations.
JIRA & Work Tracking
- Manage and track UI development activities using JIRA.
- Break requirements into actionable development tasks and subtasks.
- Provide estimates and maintain accurate task status.
- Track UI dependencies, blockers, defects, risks, and integration issues.
- Maintain clear visibility into UI progress and deliverables.
- Proactively identify issues that may impact delivery timelines and drive them toward resolution.
- Coordinate UI activities with product, UX/UI, QA, backend, and DevOps teams.
Unit Testing & Quality
- Develop comprehensive unit test cases for Angular applications.
- Create tests covering functional, negative, edge, and error scenarios.
- Maintain and improve unit-test coverage.
- Ensure new Angular functionality is adequately tested before delivery.
- Troubleshoot failing tests and resolve defects.
- Participate in code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality and maintainability.
GitLab
- Use GitLab for source control and collaborative development.
- Follow appropriate branching, commit, merge request, and code-review practices.
- Create and manage merge requests for Angular changes.
- Participate in peer code reviews.
- Resolve merge conflicts and maintain clean source-control practices.
- Work with established GitLab CI/CD processes where applicable.
AI-Assisted Development
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity and code quality is preferred.
- Experience with GitLab Duo is a strong plus.
- Use AI-assisted tools appropriately for activities such as:
- Code generation
- Unit-test generation
- Code explanation
- Refactoring
- Debugging
- Documentation
- Review and validate AI-generated code to ensure it meets application architecture, security, quality, and coding standards.
Backend & Microservices Integration
- Work closely with the backend team responsible for Python-based microservices.
- Integrate Angular applications with REST APIs and backend services.
- Understand API contracts, request/response structures, authentication requirements, and service dependencies.
- Collaborate with backend developers to ensure APIs adequately support frontend requirements.
- Track frontend/backend dependencies and proactively resolve integration blockers.
- Coordinate with backend developers when API changes impact the Angular application.
- Troubleshoot UI/API integration issues jointly with the backend team.
- Use mock or test APIs when backend services are not yet available.
Production Support
- Take ownership of Angular/UI issues from identification through resolution.
- Troubleshoot production UI and API integration issues.
- Work with backend, QA, DevOps, and product teams to resolve end-to-end issues.
- Support application releases and post-release UI validation.
- Continuously improve UI quality, performance, usability, and maintainability.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software/web development experience.
- Extremely strong, hands-on Angular experience.
- Strong experience with the latest stable versions of Angular and modern Angular development practices.
- Deep understanding of Angular application architecture.
- Strong experience with Angular components, services, routing, forms, validation, dependency injection, and lifecycle management.
- Proven ability to convert requirements directly into production-quality Angular code.
- Strong experience building enterprise-scale Angular applications.
- Strong HTML and CSS skills for professional UI development.
- Experience integrating Angular applications with REST APIs.
- Experience working with backend teams and microservices-based applications.
- Strong experience creating and maintaining Angular unit tests.
- Hands-on experience with JIRA.
- Hands-on experience with GitLab, including merge requests and collaborative development.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver UI work from requirements through production.
