Principal UI Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

Principal UI Engineer

Cambridge, MA

About this position:
Context Labs is seeking a Principal UI Engineer to help drive the development of our online user experience efforts. As a technical leader on the engineering team, you will help with all aspects of UI design and development. You will work closely with stakeholders to determine optimal user experiences and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to implement them. This diverse role is expected to have a strong grasp of front-end architecture and development. This position reports directly to the VP of Engineering.

In this role you will:

• Implement scalable and maintainable technological solutions for UIs.
• Perform frontend design, UI architecture, requirements analysis, investigation of new technologies, and software development.
• Lead the UI team in creating estimates, assist with planning resources and tasks, and track team progress throughout the software development life cycle.
• Collaborate with the rest of the development team and the product owner to define and estimate requirements and be able to translate these into specific development tasks.
• Be hands-on in software development in various projects using front-end-oriented, current frameworks, and techniques.
• Lead the UI development team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development.
• Establish and enforce best practices and standards for front-end development including performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Lead by example, act as a role model, coach, mentor and provide continuous feedback to other team members.
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies.
• Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in UI development
• End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures
• Big picture with strong attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, NodeJS, and NPM
• Experience with RESTful API integration
• Proficiency with HTML5 & CSS3
• Expert experience with VueJS 3 and Nuxt 3 required.
• Proficiency in unit and functional testing
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience in a DevOps environment where testing and automation are ingrained in the way you work.
• Experience with CI/CD workflows and tooling like Jenkins
• Experience with internationalization and localization
• Experience with containerization of UI software using Docker.
• Great communication skills

Additional Experience:

• Experience with backend programming
• Basic understanding of effective data visualization principles
• Knowledge of Cytoscape, D3, Plotly, Vega, echarts, or another data visualization framework
• Experience developing a reusable UI Component library using tools such as Lerna, Storybook
• Experience with accessible UI development
• Experience with Kubernetes based environments
• Experience with iOS, Android, or other Cross Platform development tools

Why you’ll like it here:

• Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You’ll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery.
• We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change.
• Context Labs mission is to transform complex data into continuously proven information. Powered by Immutably, an innovative, trusted data fabric platform, our integrated solutions deliver context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the world’s most complicated, persistent problems.

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. If you’re interested in applying, please do so.

Context Labs embraces an equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at [e-mail].

Who we are:

Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the world’s climate information. The company enables data to become trusted, shared, and utilized as Asset Grade Data (AGD), providing insights and solutions to inform markets. Context Labs mission is to provide the world’s trusted data fabric platform, delivering Asset Grade Data to customers using the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform, deploying machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and cryptographic blockchain technologies, for context-driven insights.

Building on the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform, the company has deployed customer service layers (1) Decarbonization-as-a-Service (DaaS), tailored to accelerate the Global Energy Transition, and its (2) CLEAR Path platform to enable customers to optimize value creation with the highest quality carbon credits. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is comprised of a leadership team that has been instrumental in the at-scale growth of the Internet, in prior companies. The company has offices in Amsterdam, Cambridge, Mass., and Houston.

We are a team that is hiring and growing! Learn more about Context Labs here:

www.contextlabs.com