Description
Frontend/UI Lead – React (Hybrid)
Cognizant Interactive
Cognizant is a strategic partner to the Fortune 2,000, helping the world’s most influential companies to build software and solutions, empowering our clients’ businesses and enabling their competitive advantages.
Cognizant Interactive helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to create new value, and differentiation and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach that uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to experience solutions that enable brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing, and commerce capabilities
Job Summary
Cognizant is looking for a Senior React Developer with six to ten years of experience in developing customized products for our clients. The role is expected to drive technology discussions and analyze the current landscape for gaps in addressing business needs. Cognizant needs a motivated individual to challenge the status quo and provide thought leadership/best practices to enhance our current services and technologies.
An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Someone that values the “team” and maximizes the opinions and expertise of their teammates to deliver quality.
You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.
Location: El Segundo CA
Responsibilities:
Frontend/UI Lead – React will be responsible for leading a team of frontend developers focused on the design and development of frontend solutions across the Digital and Marketing Technology domain, including:
- Should be able to lead a POD of engineers for the React Frontend development project
- Provide mentoring to the junior developers by grooming them on development best practices, creating client-specific developer guidelines, and be able to review code and fix them
- Be able to speak up to set realistic expectations for a project with client and product owner
- Strong communication skills. Being able to effectively communicate with Product owners, Enterprise architects, development teams, and business and IT stakeholders.
- Be able to speak up to set realistic expectations for a project
- Strong communication skills. Being able to effectively communicate with development teams and stakeholders.
- Manage multiple project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise.
- Help us grow our team by interviewing and recruiting new engineers
- Develop a culture of high ownership, technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
- Strong programming fundamentals with Advanced OOPS concepts.
- Discuss with customer business groups to understand functionality and come up with innovative ideas for web development for the best user experience
- Coordinate with the offshore Team to set project expectations and mentor junior members of the team.
- ES6 Good understanding of framework lifecycle, events, JavaScript Object modeling, and reusable libraries.
- Good Expertise in analyzing the Document Object Model (DOM) Layout, DOM Functions, Java Script functions, Cascading Styles across cross-browser using FireBug, and Developer Tool Bar.
Qualifications:
- Overall 8+yrs years of software development experience
- 5+ years of React JS frontend development with backend integration experience (preferably client side)
- Deep understanding of React Architecture and Hooks. Webpack, SCSS/SASS, LESS, etc.
- Experienced in working with Redux architecture using complex Object-Oriented concepts to improve the performance of the websites.
- Experience in using React JS components, Forms, Events, Keys, and Router, plus Redux, Animations, and Flux concepts.
- Experience in development RWD and SPA with React, Redux, Routers, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, GraphQL, ES6, Babel, Express, ESlint. Understands Server-Side Rendering, Virtual DOM, Performance optimization, Typescript & Material UI
- Familiarity with integration patterns and invoke/ consume APIs/ RESTful Services/ Data API using NodeJS, Spring framework.
- Experience with Automated Unit, Contract & E2E Testing – Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine, Cypress, Playwright, Wiremock & Pact JS
- Experience in TDD and BDD approach.
- Experienced in deploying React Apps using CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working with Container Platforms – Docker & Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of deployment concepts of rollout and rollback, web server, app server deployment, database scripts rollout, and monitoring
- Ancillary aspects of software development like IDE, SAFe, Agile, Story development across layers; Digital Engineering, and Product Engineering basics
- Experience with customizing build with webpack, Rollup & babel.
- Exposure of implementing Adobe Site Catalyst, Test & Target.
- Experience in implementing React JS applications in compliance with ADA / 508
- Experience in Adobe Experience Manager will be a plus.
The Salary rate for this position is between $86K – 155K, depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary rate, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Why Choose Cognizant?
It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core.
Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical training to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to obtain certifications in the newest technologies.
Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion-for our clients, our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.
If you’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network Assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to leverage the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service.
Cognizant is an equal-opportunity employer provider and is committed to creating a diverse environment. Cognizant considers all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state, federal, or local law.
About Cognizant
Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is a member of the S&P-500, Nasdaq-100, and Fortune 200, and was recently ranked as the #1 Fastest-Growing “All-Star” by Fortune Magazine. Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a seamless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.
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Qualifications
Technical Skills
SNo
Primary Skill
Proficiency Level *
Rqrd./Dsrd.
1
React JS
PL3
Required
2
HTML 5
PL4
Desired
3
JavaScript
PL3
Desired
4
CSS
PL4
Desired
* Proficiency Legends
Proficiency Level
Generic Reference
PL1
The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2
The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3
The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4
The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.