Front End Developer Technical Lead

Job Description:

Technical Lead – Front End Development Team

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

3M is seeking a Technical Lead for Front End Development to join the Corporate Research Digital Lab (CRDL) to develop scalable Data Systems. As part of an agile team, you will enable applications that support research in a variety of markets including energy, manufacturing, personal safety, transportation, electronics, and consumer.

As a Front End Technical Lead, you will have the opportunity to design, build, and support applications with your team for users across the globe:

• Meet with 3M researchers and identify how they work through their day with your human factors colleagues.
• Define standards, tools, and processes for the look and feel of research applications.
• Advise management on technical strategies and architectures
• Network with other technical leaders to make decisions on architecture direction for enterprise applications and share ideas.
• Collect trouble reports and resolve problems
• Collect metrics and monitor the use of products, allowing proactive support of 3M users and prioritization (or retirement) of features
• Produce training materials for the products, and regularly meet with stakeholders to understand what is liked and not liked
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Collaborate with back-end developers and designers to improve usability.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and collaborate with other technical leaders at 3M on adoption and best practices
• Aggressively publish internal technical documents and present to Tech Forum, or internal special interest groups

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher Computer Science or a related field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Eight (8) years’ experience as a software developer, emphasis on building user interfaces in a private, public, government or military environment
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and React.js and Angular JavaScript frameworks, and using these tools on cloud platforms. 

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Understanding of performance optimization techniques for front-end applications.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript features (ES6+) and browser APIs 
• Experience with UI/UX design tools (e.g., Figma) and turning the designs in those tools into production code.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and GraphQL.  Familiar with SQLalchemy toolkit
• Familiar with Python.
• Experience with developing, maintaining, and distributing a UI component library based on a design system
• Familiar with ASP.NET MVC applications with a React UI front-end
• Designing and implementing automated testing to automate quality assurance and proactively address software errors and potential security problems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Proficiency with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Experience interfacing with UX/Human Factors teams and strategizing code development to deliver their designs.
• Understanding of accessibility standards and best practices, particularly W3C standards and guidelines. 
• Ability to learn quickly to help with architecture decision making.

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Location: Hybrid to Maplewood MN preferred, remote in the U.S. is possible

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being 

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