Lead UI Developer

Northern Trust | UI Lead Dev or Architect | Hybrid in Chicago, Illinois | 12 Month Contarct with Extensions (Up to $65/hour)

Top Skills - Must Haves

Javascript

React

Css

Html

Node.js

Full stack

React.js

Api

node.j

OAuth

azure

Top Skills' Details

"Tell me what you've done/contributed to vs. what the team is doing/company is doing"

Top Skills required

React

Typescript

Node

Cloud familiarity

Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves

redux

figma

zustand

module federation

azure/cloud

Backstage

Contractor s Role:

Your primary goal for this job role will be designing, implementing, and supporting modern interactive UI solutions developed in JS frameworks such as ReactJS. Besides, you should be able to coordinate with Backend Developers, HTML coders, and Graphic Designers for a complete web development experience. You should be knowledgeable about packing & deploying apps via CI/CD pipelines to a cloud platform.

Requirements:

Strong React Development Experience

5+ years of professional software engineering experience

Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript

Experience with Node.js backend development

Experience with React and modern frontend development

Experience integrating with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Familiarity with authentication and authorization (OAuth, SSO, etc.)

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Notes from call, 2nd take

Direct contact with manager is allowed

Prairie, Judge, Signature, Direct Source

Help contribute to tool chain and platform, guide other resources more leader to team vs. individual contributor

Too much priority on backstage vs. core dev

They want "lead" React dev with strong Typescript/Javascript

What have you contributed to vs. used

What did you do vs. what is the company/team doing

previous candidate seemed to just add keywords vs. having actual skills

Platform team, so overall experience (pipelines, suggesting features/improvements)

Pick it up with guidance, but able to quickly work on their own, pick up task and execute

Any project leadership, provide ideas to team, are helpful

Owning app from dev to CI/CD to production

Building platform applications, building accelerators

Pluses

Comfortable with node as backend

Communicating with databases

Backstage familiarity

Have they written command line interface, automated scripts with node, releasing open source libraries for home/pet projects

This team builds libraries and share across enterprise as platform team

Cloud experience is a plus (NT uses Azure, but others are fine

If no cloud they should have GitHub Actions, CI/CD

Just answer the question if you don't know it just say you don't know it

Brief resumes that include GitHub/portfolios

Any hackathons proof you're not just a 9 to 5 person, but have done extra activities within coding, presentations outside of work, etc from

First Qual Call:

React very strong

Platform engineering team experience

Backstage tool working knowledge (harness, as well)

Platform engineering

Understanding of software delivery

Primarily front end work

Backend will be some API work, azure work, but light level of familiarity with backend, API integration

-IDP and platform eng background is more important than FS experience

Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

Excellent reputation, modern dev environment and long-term opportunity.

Work Environment

Collaborative dev environment

Business Drivers/Customer Impact

adding capacity together mid-build project completed.

Why is the position open(provide details)

New dev effort

External Communities Job Description

Excellent opportunity to provide development expertise for a collaborative/shared service team within prominent wealth management company in Chicago's "Loop.