Tech Lead

On any given day you might: - Grow and manage a local team of software engineers and QA specialists. - Jump on hands-on coding to help developers in the team to get tasks done and remove blockers. - Collaborate with staff from the greater R/GA network on local or remote projects. - Influence ideation, handle feasibility conversations and prototype concepts in collaboration with other engineers and designers. - Recommend to internal technology stakeholders and client stakeholders (technical and non-technical) the appropriate process, technology architecture and front-end framework to bring experiences to life. - Advise on resourcing mix to execute projects. - Estimate work time and effort with precision. - Manage sprint process, daily tasks, and team workload efficiently, while communicating progress, blockers, and goals clearly with the bigger team. - Carry out regular code reviews, enforce coding best practices, source control and deliverables. - Understand team (individual and collective) strengths and weaknesses and balance workload and tasks accordingly to promote best results. - Constantly enforce cutting-edge, well-crafted, high-quality, modern front-end code from each engineer in your team. - Educate and inspire technical teams with emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools. - Educate and inspire non-technical teams around the use of technology. - Enforce clear, cohesive, comprehensive and well-written technical documentation at all times, in-code files and external documentation (diagrams, technical design document, technical approach, summary deckware). - Enforce security guidelines around code writing, documentation, non-disclosure agreements and client confidentiality at all times. The Ideal Person: - Experience managing an engineering team or leading projects with multiple engineers. - Mastery-level experience with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, and JS). - Understanding of WebGL or heavy CSS3 animations - Mastery-level experience developing with modern front-end frameworks (React, VueJS, Angular JS, Vanilla JS). - Mastery-level experience implementing responsive and adaptive web solutions. - Mastery-level experience integrating RESTful Web services and 3rd party APIs. - Mastery-level experience with Git. - Mastery-level experience setting up and managing development workflows using task runners such as Yarn and Webpack. - Experience working with remote teams (city to city / country to country). - Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes and tools (BitBucket/GitLab pipelines, Jenkins). - Knowledge of Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development. - Experience working closely with designers. - Experience integrating front-end experiences with modern or legacy CMS/eCommerce platforms such as Contentful, Drupal, Prismic, Sitecore, Adobe - Experience Cloud, Shopify, Magento, Demandware. - Experience with modern server-side programming languages such as NodeJS and/or Python. - Good knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Alibaba Cloud. - Experience with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. - Knowledge of mobile app development languages such as React Native, Swift or Kotlin. - Interest in data and machine learning. You bring: - 7+ years' experience in an engineering position. - Constant learner and passion for your field.