- Company Name
- American Unit, Inc
- Job Title
- Data Engineering lead
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Data Engineering Lead
**Role Summary:**
Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of a front‑end investment insights platform for a global private equity firm. Own the component ecosystem, micro‑frontend modules, and CI/CD pipeline while driving technical excellence and cross‑functional collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.
**Expectations:**
- Minimum 12–15 years of engineering experience, heavily focused on front‑end.
- Proven architectural leadership in React‑based systems at scale.
- Experience with AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate) and micro‑frontend deployments.
- Strong communication skills, capable of presenting decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Prior exposure to financial or investment domain is preferred; product‑company background (Google, Apple, FB, Intel) is a plus.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Own the component library and front‑end ecosystem used across multiple micro‑apps.
- Package, version, and distribute shared components with clear migration paths; support Bootstrap and Tailwind environments.
- Define and enforce testing strategy (unit, integration, visual, E2E).
- Lead the implementation of React micro‑apps backed by AWS serverless, defining CI/CD standards for publishing and deployments.
- Produce documentation, usage guides, and integration examples for downstream teams.
- Partner with Product and Design to translate ambiguous requirements into actionable plans.
- Present architectural decisions to client Tech Leads and Engineering Committees.
- Mentor and support a distributed engineering team (NY + offshore) through reviews, onboarding, and unblockers.
**Required Skills:**
- **Frontend Technologies:** React, Next.js (SSR/CSR), Redux / Zustand / React Context / state machines, Storybook, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, CSS/SCSS, Styled Components or CSS‑in‑JS.
- **Performance & Profiling:** Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, Chrome DevTools, React Profiler; metrics such as FCP, LCP, TTI, TBT.
- **Real‑Time Communication:** WebSockets.
- **Component Ecosystem:** Familiarity with Material UI, Ant Design, Chakra UI (nice to have).
- **AWS & DevOps:** Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate), containerization, semantic versioning, CI/CD pipelines.
- **Tools & Processes:** Storybook, CI/CD, version control, documentation standards.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- AWS certifications (Developer / Solutions Architect) are a plus.