Front-End Architect/Technical Lead UI Design Systems

Working Location: MASSACHUSETTS, WESTBOROUGH; Nationwide 

Workplace Flexibility: Field

Are you looking for a company that cares about people’s lives and health, including yours? Let’s inspire healthier lives, together.

 

Olympus, a leading medical technology company, has focused on making people’s lives better for over 100 years.

Our Purpose is to make people’s lives healthier, safer, and more fulfilling.

 

Our Core Values are reflected in all we do: Integrity – Empathy – Agility – Unity – Long-Term View

 

We deliver on our purpose and our core values by staying True to Life.

Job Description

The Front-End Architect/Technical Lead for the UI Design System Team is a key technical leader within our organization. They play a crucial role in guiding and mentoring their team of talented engineers while also writing code and being a strong individual contributor.  Working closely with the design team, the product owner, the application engineering teams, the Technical Lead is responsible for leading the UI Design System Team as it delivers the objectives set by the Product roadmap.  They will be expected to champion technical best-practices, oversee the technical health of their team's codebase, provide guidance and mentorship on UI best practices to the application engineering teams, and collaborate on the technical and architectural direction for UI development across the platform and its applications.

To succeed in this role, the Lead for the UI Design System Team must be a technical thought leader who communicates effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders to meet the needs of the business.  They must possess a deep understanding of modern software engineering principles and be able to provide effective technical guidance to their team.  They will need to be highly organized, able to manage competing priorities, and able to adapt to rapidly changing requirements.  They will be passionate about technology and have a strong desire to mentor and coach others.  They will also be an excellent communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

If you are a talented and innovative technical leader with a passion for making a meaningful impact, we want you on our team.  If you're ready to join a team of game-changers and work on a project that has the potential to transform lives, we encourage you to apply for this role and help us create a brighter future for healthcare.

Job Duties

• Strong emphasis on front-end development, and web-application framework development.
• Write high-quality, secure, and maintainable code to deliver on agile user stories, ensuring that our platform and applications are reliable and scalable.
• Develop and maintain unit tests with a high degree of code coverage, ensuring that our code is rigorously tested and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate with the team to break down epics into actionable user-stories, driving the development of new features and functionalities.
• Perform code reviews on other team members' pull requests, providing constructive feedback and guidance to improve the quality of our code.
• Provide software design and software design reviews for the team, ensuring that our platform is built on a solid technical foundation.
• Champion technical best practices, staying up to date on the latest tools, technologies, and industry trends.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production, working closely with the team to identify and implement effective solutions.
• Create clear and concise documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, and code comments that illustrate the type of code needed.
• Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility, ensuring that our platform meets the needs of our users.
• Document each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance, ensuring that our platform is easily maintainable and upgradable.
• Maintain compliance with applicable policies and procedures for areas such as Quality, Security, and Privacy, ensuring that our platform is secure and compliant with industry standards.
• Share insights that help improve productivity, leveraging your knowledge of software delivery methods to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

Job Qualifications

Required:

• A college or advanced educational degree is not necessarily required for this position.  We also value education achieved via work experience, coursework and training, and even self-guided learning.
• Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience, ideally most or all of it delivering SaaS in a cloud hosted environment.
• Other Considerations (travel/hours availability, etc.):
  • Strong overlap wi