3M Front End Developer Technical Lead 

United States, Minnesota 

741022569

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

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.

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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