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Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage the performance and career development of a team of UI engineers, owning significant parts of CommerceIQ’s UI applications that require strategic design, architecture, and high-quality implementation.
• Lead the development of next-generation web applications, ensuring they are efficient, reusable, and focused on customer delight, while guiding the team on technical execution.
• Oversee the exploration and design of dynamic, compelling consumer experiences, setting standards for user interface quality and innovation.
• Guide the team in architecting, developing, and testing highly interactive front-end web applications and reusable components using modern web technologies and frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js).
• Identify, define, and communicate best practices for UI application architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap, emphasizing intuitive and high-quality UI solutions.
• Be a role model and professional coach for UI engineers, fostering a culture of action, innovation, and high standards in user experience and code quality.
• Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack, ensuring seamless integration of UI components with backend systems.
• Manage teams to scale distributed UI applications, make architectural trade-offs applying appropriate design patterns, oversee code reviews, and ensure delivery with speed and quality.
• Ensure the team produces high-quality UI software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Backend developers to align UI solutions with business needs, prioritizing and executing based on company goals.
• Act as the custodian of UI development processes and SDLC best practices, ensuring the team adheres to high standards in debugging, performance optimization, and testing.
• Own hiring goals for the UI team, recruiting top talent to build a high-performing team.
• Take delivery and technical ownership of all UI-related roadmap and technical items, ensuring alignment with CommerceIQ’s innovation culture.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in a frontend stack (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) and modern web frameworks (React, Vue.js, Angular, etc.).
• Proficient in statically typed languages (TypeScript) and principles of good user experience, ensuring intuitive and visually appealing interfaces.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, functional programming, and object-oriented JavaScript (OOJS).
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and CSS post-processors, with an ability to guide the team toward pixel-perfect implementations across major browsers.
• Experience overseeing debugging and web application performance optimization, ensuring high-performing UI components.
• 8+ years of relevant engineering work experience, with at least 5+ years focused on UI design, architecture, and coding in JavaScript or equivalent frontend technologies.
• 3+ years of experience in architecting and delivering complex user interfaces, with a track record of guiding teams to ship scalable UI projects.
• 2+ years of management experience in building small to medium-sized UI teams, demonstrating growth and successful deliveries.
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to hire and build exceptional UI engineering teams.
• Actively coached, mentored, and grew team members in their careers, fostering a culture of learning and excellence.
• Good understanding and experience in practicing SDLC best practices, particularly in UI development and agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building and working with production-grade UI systems.
• Shipped several large-scale UI projects with dependencies across multiple teams.
• Built and delivered on successful cross-functional partnerships to enhance UI integration.
• Prior knowledge of ES6, Node.js, npm, and Webpack, with experience guiding teams in their use.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, Cypress, or Jest, ensuring robust testing practices.
• Been actively involved in the creation and execution of technical strategy and roadmap for UI components.
• Strong believer in innovation culture and engineering-driven UI ideas, with a passion for elegant, reusable, and highly performant UI code.
• Experience in release management and agile methodologies for UI development.