Principal Engineer - UI / UX

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and experienced Principal Engineer to take up front-end development efforts. You will design and develop elegant interfaces that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit. You will collaborate on scalability issues involving visualizing massive amounts of data and information. You will identify, define, and communicate best practices for the front end.

You are passionate about building secure, high-performing, and scalable front-end applications. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance, and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and direct the UI/UX team, define software architecture, and collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems and determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products.
• Define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, and determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products.
• Translate wireframes into functional requirements, and write well-abstracted, reusable, high-performance code for UI components.
• Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive, and interactive interfaces.
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture, or new technologies.
• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high-powered desktop computers to low-end mobile devices.
• Understand and coach/teach others, showing a high level of ethics and teamwork.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• 7 to 10 years of experience in developing responsive, elegant, efficient, and cross-browser front-end applications using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Hands-on experience with various MVC frameworks and UI libraries such as ReactJS and D3.js .
• Hands-on experience with map APIs like Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, and other powerful, information-rich maps.
• Familiar with UX processes and design.
• Proven ability to drive large-scale projects with a deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration, and leadership.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment, and decision-making skills.