Lead Software Engineer (P77)

84.51° Overview:

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.

Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

Join us at 84.51°!

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As a Lead Front-End Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team, applying your skill, experience and creativity towards building complex and scalable solutions with a focus on the UI. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, solving exciting problems while leveraging best engineering practices. On our teams, we’re working daily with product, design and data scientists to understand the problem and translate learnings into a pragmatic and effective solution. We happily pull in a peer when we need a pair to get through a tough problem or just for a second pair of eyes. We are always balancing new feature development with efforts to continuously improve both our efficiency and our infrastructure. 

You should have: 

• A passion for bringing customer-first experiences to life through multiple product touchpoints 

• Strong leadership skills to define business problems, plan, and set priority  

• Drive and passion to research, evaluate, and recommend emerging trends/technology to solve business problems and improve the way things are done 

• Experience building data driven applications and narratives that interface with BI technologies 

• The mindset of an intrapreneurial thinker and self-starter to seek out our customer's needs and build solutions to meet them 

• Experience building and architecting mature front-end solutions including event driven architecture, micro front-ends, state management, design systems, and sharable components 

• Experience with sustainable engineering practices such as automated testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and monitoring / alerting 

 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program 

• Strong Front-End Engineering fundamentals with a minimum of 5+ years’ experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS 

• 3+ years working with modern front-end frameworks including React, Angular, and Svelte 

• Experience building and shipping multiple large software products using agile methodologies 

• Excellent communication skills - you can effectively work with engineers but at the same time collaborate with product owners, data analysts and stakeholders 

  

Preferred skills include: 

• Experience building shared libraries of components and/or design systems using JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Svelte and React 

• Experience with web components and reactive programming 

• Full stack experience that overlaps across our tech stack (Angular, Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Docker, RabbitMQ)<