Senior Front-End Engineer REACT Solutions Engineer IV

“I can succeed as a Senior Front-End Engineer at Capital Group.” 

As a Senior Front-End Engineer, you’ll collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and back-end engineers to validate requirements, plan developer stories, and design APIs. Your responsibilities include implementing reusable components, developing test plans, ensuring code quality, and optimizing our applications. You’ll also contribute to documentation, participate in lifecycle activities, mentor other developers, and occasionally evaluate new technologies and vendors.

As part of the Digital Investor Platform team, you will play a key role in fostering mastery within our front-end engineering practice.  Through collaboration with UX designers, product owners, architects, and other engineering teams, you will also be instrumental in applying this mastery as we rebuild our site and add new features that will help the millions of investors we serve.  And through practice and application, you will have the opportunity to work on fun, interesting, and important problems that will contribute to your growth and development as an engineer.  You will be successful in this role if you possess the necessary technical skills, are outgoing in identifying and building relationships with key stakeholders and are inquisitive and driven to solve problems in a collaborative fashion.

“I am the person Capital Group is looking for.” 

•          You have at least 7 years of experience in software engineering and application development with an emphasis on the front-end.

•          You have experience building and supporting public facing transactional web applications (e.g., banking or e-commerce).

•          You are proficient in modern JavaScript, including concepts like closures, promises, async/await, and modules.

•          You are proficient in TypeScript, including a strong understanding of interfaces, types, generics, and advanced type features.

•          You are fluent in React and its core concepts, including JSX, event handling, state management, and hooks.

•          You are proficient with ReactJS libraries and development tools such as Material UI, Vitest, and Storybook, as well as working from design applications such as Zeplin.

•          You have experience with RESTful APIs including an understanding of best practices for efficiently fetching and handling data to ensure optimal performance and user experience.

•          You have experience with various tools and libraries to mock data and methods in a testing environment, such as Vitest, Jest, React Testing Library, and MSW (Mock Service Worker), and a comfort level using tools like Postman for advanced mocking scenarios.

•          You are proficient in various CSS approaches, including CSS-in-JS. 

•          You are experienced in maintaining code quality with test case management tools and other utilities (e.g., linting tools).

•          You are proficient in Git and Git concepts, including creating and managing pull requests, and conducting thorough pull request reviews.

•          You are well versed in agile methodologies and tools (Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence).

•          You have strong written and verbal communication skills.

•          You can create and present demos to both technical and non-technical audiences.