Senior Frontend Developer

Role : Senior Angular Developer

Location : Buffalo NY (Hybrid role -3 days a week)

Contract : 6-12 Months

Interview : Video

We urgently need a Senior Angular Developer for Buffalo NY for our Financial/Banking client.

Senior Angular Developer

Position Overview

We are seeking an extremely strong, hands-on Angular Developer with 7+ years of professional experience to take end-to-end ownership of the application's UI/frontend workstream.

This is a pure Angular/UI-focused position. The ideal candidate must have deep, hands-on experience with modern Angular and the latest stable Angular version, and be capable of taking business requirements and independently converting them into high-quality, production-ready UI code.

The developer will own the frontend/UI implementation, track UI work through JIRA, write and maintain unit test cases, manage source code through GitLab, and work closely with a separate backend team responsible for Python-based microservices and APIs.

Experience with AI-assisted development and GitLab Duo is a plus.

Work Arrangement

● Up to 4 weeks of remote work is permitted at the beginning of the engagement.

● After the initial 4-week period, the position will be fully onsite.

● Candidates must be willing and able to work onsite full-time after the initial remote period.

Key Responsibilities

Angular / UI Development

● Take end-to-end ownership of the Angular/UI workstream.

● Develop enterprise-grade web applications using the latest stable version of Angular.

● Maintain strong awareness of current Angular features, APIs, architecture, and recommended development practices.

● Translate business requirements, functional specifications, and UI/UX designs into production-ready Angular applications.

● Build reusable, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality Angular components.

● Implement Angular routing, forms, validation, services, dependency injection, and UI workflows.

● Develop responsive and accessible enterprise user interfaces.

● Troubleshoot complex Angular/UI issues and drive them through resolution.

● Participate in frontend architecture and technical design decisions.

● Continuously modernize and improve Angular applications as the framework evolves.

Requirements-to-Code Ownership

● Analyze requirements and independently determine the appropriate Angular implementation.

● Convert requirements into UI components, workflows, screens, and technical tasks.

● Identify requirement gaps and clarify functional expectations with product and business teams.

● Estimate UI development effort and track work through completion.

● Take responsibility for delivering complete, production-ready functionality.

● Ensure the implementation accurately reflects business requirements and UX expectations.

JIRA &

Work Tracking

● Manage and track UI development activities using JIRA.

● Break requirements into actionable development tasks and subtasks.

● Provide estimates and maintain accurate task status.

● Track UI dependencies, blockers, defects, risks, and integration issues.

● Maintain clear visibility into UI progress and deliverables.

● Proactively identify issues that may impact delivery timelines and drive them toward resolution.

● Coordinate UI activities with product, UX/UI, QA, backend, and DevOps teams.

Unit Testing & Quality

● Develop comprehensive unit test cases for Angular applications.

● Create tests covering functional, negative, edge, and error scenarios.

● Maintain and improve unit-test coverage.

● Ensure new Angular functionality is adequately tested before delivery.

● Troubleshoot failing tests and resolve defects.

● Participate in code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality and maintainability.

GitLab

● Use GitLab for source control and collaborative development.

● Follow appropriate branching, commit, merge request, and code-review practices.

● Create and manage merge requests for Angular changes.

● Participate in peer code reviews.

● Resolve merge conflicts and maintain clean source-control practices.

● Work with established GitLab CI/CD processes where applicable.

AI-Assisted Development

● Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity and code quality is preferred.

● Experience with GitLab Duo is a strong plus.

● Use AI-assisted tools appropriately for activities such as:

● Code generation

● Unit-test generation

● Code explanation

● Refactoring

● Debugging

● Documentation

● Review and validate AI-generated code to ensure it meets application architecture, security, quality, and coding standards.

Backend & Microservices Integration

● Work closely with the backend team responsible for Python-based microservices.

● Integrate Angular applications with REST APIs and backend services.

● Understand API contracts, request/response structures, authentication requirements, and service dependencies.

● Collaborate with backend developers to ensure APIs adequately support frontend requirements.

● Track frontend/backend dependencies and proactively resolve integration blockers.

● Coordinate with backend developers when API changes impact the Angular application.

● Troubleshoot UI/API integration issues jointly with the backend team.

● Use mock or test APIs when backend services are not yet available.

Production Support

● Take ownership of Angular/UI issues from identification through resolution.

● Troubleshoot production UI and API integration issues.

● Work with backend, QA, DevOps, and product teams to resolve end-to-end issues.

● Support application releases and post-release UI validation.

● Continuously improve UI quality, performance, usability, and maintainability.

Required Qualifications

● 7+ years of professional software/web development experience.

● Extremely strong, hands-on Angular experience.

● Strong experience with the latest stable versions of Angular and modern Angular development practices.

● Deep understanding of Angular application architecture.

● Strong experience with Angular components, services, routing, forms, validation, dependency injection, and lifecycle management.

● Proven ability to convert requirements directly into production-quality Angular code.

● Strong experience building enterprise-scale Angular applications.

● Strong HTML and CSS skills for professional UI development.

● Experience integrating Angular applications with REST APIs.

● Experience working with backend teams and microservices-based applications.

● Strong experience creating and maintaining Angular unit tests.

● Hands-on experience with JIRA.

● Hands-on experience with GitLab, including merge requests and collaborative development.

● Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

● Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

● Demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver UI work from requirements through production.

Preferred Qualifications

● Experience with GitLab Duo or similar AI-powered developer tools.

● Experience using AI for code generation and unit-test generation.

● Experience integrating Angular applications with Python-based microservices.

● Experience with Angular Material or other Angular UI component libraries.

● Experience with automated UI testing.

● Experience with GitLab CI/CD.

● Experience with enterprise application development.

● Experience mentoring other Angular developers.

● Experience modernizing applications to newer Angular versions.