Staff Angular Front-End Engineer

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Job Description

Staff Angular Front-end Engineer

Salt Lake City Utah

About WGU

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As a Staff Angular Front-end Engineer youll drive a high-impact migration to a cutting-edge monorepo architecture shaping the future of our front-end platform and influencing engineering practices across the entire organization.

What Youll Do

• Lead the migration of our front-end applications to a monorepo architecture ensuring a scalable maintainable and high-performing Angular ecosystem.
• Act as the Angular subject matter expert setting best practices for component architecture state management and performance optimization.
• Design and implement robust CI pipelines to support continuous integration across multiple teams; partner with DevOps on CI/CD strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring guiding engineers in modern front-end engineering patterns and monorepo best practices.
• Collaborate closely with product and platform teams to identify technical risks dependencies and solutions early in the development lifecycle.
• Drive operational excellence improving code quality testing strategies and deployment reliability across the engineering organization.
• Contribute to long-term front-end platform strategy influencing tooling coding standards and architectural decisions.

What Youll Bring

• Expert-level experience with Angular (v12) including advanced knowledge of RxJS NgRx or other state management solutions and modular application design.
• Proven experience designing implementing and maintaining monorepo architectures (e.g. Nx Bazel or similar) for large-scale front-end applications.
• Strong track record of building and maintaining large-scale front-end architectures including performance and scalability considerations.
• Deep understanding of front-end build systems and CI pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins or comparable tools).
• Skilled in modern TypeScript HTML5 CSS3/SCSS and front-end testing frameworks (Jest Cypress etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence cross-team engineering practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance technical trade-offs and drive consensus across teams backed by 10 years in software engineering (or equivalent experience).

Bonus Points if You Have:

• Experience with AWS services or other major cloud platforms to deploy and scale front-end applications.
• Provided hands-on leadership and mentorship to a team of junior engineers fostering their technical growth and career development.
• Background in distance education or EdTech understanding the needs of online learners.
• Technical certifications in front-end frameworks cloud technologies or CI/CD architecture.

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