Lead UI Developer with GitHub Copilot

Requirements:

• 7+ years of web application development experience, including at least 2 years leading UI work
• Strong practical experience with Angular v14+ and React
• Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript ES6+, HTML5, and CSS3/SCSS
• Experience with reactive programming using RxJS and state management with NgRx or Redux
• Experience designing front-end architecture and reusable component libraries shared across applications
• Skills in responsive, accessible, cross-browser development and performance optimization, including bundle size, lazy loading, and rendering
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs, including authentication, pagination, and error handling
• Experience with unit and automated testing using tools such as Jasmine, Karma, Jest, Cypress, or Playwright
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and code quality tools such as SonarQube
• Experience building and deploying front-end applications as on-premises containers on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP)
• Daily, hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, including inline suggestions, chat, and agent mode
• Sound prompting practices and the ability to identify shortcomings in AI-generated code and review it appropriately
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and comfort working in a small team with short deadlines and shifting priorities
• Clear communication skills and confidence working directly with clients
• Preferred, but not required: experience with micro-frontends such as Module Federation, data grids or charting libraries such as AG Grid or ECharts, rolling out AI coding tools to teams, agent-based AI tools, custom instructions or MCP servers, AI design-to-code tools, Node.js, or OpenShift routes, config maps, Helm charts, or Pipelines

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, testing, and release of Angular and React applications, contributing a substantial share of the code
• Take UI features from initial requirements or designs through production using short build-and-feedback cycles
• Establish practical front-end standards and reusable patterns suited to a small, fast-moving team
• Create reusable components and shared libraries for use across screens and projects
• Deliver responsive, accessible (WCAG/ARIA), cross-browser interfaces
• Integrate REST APIs and backend services, handling authentication, errors, and loading states
• Optimize application performance, including bundle size, lazy loading, rendering, and change detection
• Collaborate directly with clients, backend developers, and designers, often without dedicated business analysis or QA support
• Review code, pair with fellow developers, and support their growth
• Develop and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, and uphold CI/CD pipelines and quality checks
• Estimate work, raise risks early, and plan in short cycles
• Investigate production issues and identify root causes
• Use AI coding tools daily for coding, testing, refactoring, debugging, and documentation
• Help the team use AI tools effectively through shared prompts, reusable instructions, and examples based on the clients codebase
• Define review standards for AI-generated code and ensure client code and data are used only with approved tools

Technologies:

• AI
• Angular
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Cypress
• DevOps
• ES6
• Git
• GitHub
• HTML5
• Helm
• Support
• Jasmine
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Jest
• Karma
• MCP
• NgRx
• OpenShift
• Playwright
• REST
• React
• Redux
• RxJs
• SCSS
• TypeScript
• Web
• UX UI Design
• NodeJS
• Blockchain
• Mobile

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We are Synechron, a global consulting firm using digital innovation and technology to help businesses transform. Our work spans AI, consulting, digital, cloud and DevOps, data, and software engineering, including solutions developed through our FinLabs. We have more than 16,400 employees across 60 offices in 20 countries and serve financial services and technology organizations. For this role, our client is assembling a small team to build and deliver UI quickly; the Lead UI Developer will be hands-on and guide the front-end direction. The stated base salary for positions filled in Dallas, Texas, or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is $115,000–$120,000 per year, plus benefits; compensation varies by geography and other factors. Our benefits include paid annual leave, sick leave and holidays, parental leave, insurance, retirement savings, education and commuter benefits where available, training, Udemy for Business access, coaching, opportunities to work abroad, and projects with leading financial institutions. We foster an approachable, diverse global culture and support flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, and learning and development. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

last updated 43 week of 2026