About AAPC
AAPC is a leading organization in the healthcare industry, dedicated to providing top-tier education, certification, and resources for healthcare professionals. We foster a culture of humility, support, drive, transparency, and innovation—values that guide everything we do.
Position Overview
AAPC is seeking a Lead React Developer to spearhead our front-end development efforts. This role is ideal for a highly skilled developer with leadership capabilities, who is eager to mentor a team, set technical direction, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders while remaining hands-on in coding and architecture.
The ideal candidate thrives in both leadership and development, ensuring best practices, driving innovation, and guiding the team toward high-performance web applications.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Define and implement best practices in front-end development, ensuring scalable, high-performing web applications.
- Set technical direction and architecture for React-based applications, integrating with headless CMS and eCommerce platforms.
- Stay ahead of industry trends and proactively recommend improvements to technology and processes.
Hands-On Development
- Architect, develop, and maintain React applications with Next.js.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in TypeScript and JavaScript.
- Optimize applications for performance, accessibility, and scalability.
- Work closely with UX/UI designers to translate designs into seamless user experiences.
Team Mentorship & Collaboration
- Lead and mentor front-end developers, conducting code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and accountability within the team.
- Work cross-functionally with product owners, marketing, UX designers, and backend developers to align development goals.
Code Quality, Testing & Deployment
- Ensure high code quality through unit and integration tests.
- Establish code review standards and enforce best practices in Git workflows.
- Debug and resolve complex technical issues with an analytical approach.
Qualifications & Skills
Must-Have:
- 5+ years of React development experience with a strong understanding of hooks, context, and performance optimizations.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), Next.js (v14.x+), and Storybook.
- Expertise in integrating with RESTful APIs & GraphQL.
- Experience working with headless CMS (Contentful).
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and Jira.
- Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), and modern front-end tooling (Webpack, Turbopack, NPM).
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines, Git version control (Github), and automated testing.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, communication, and ability to lead a team.
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining the ability to grasp abstract concepts and the broader strategic vision.
Bonus Skills:
- Experience with leveraging search platforms (Algolia).
- CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce) integrations.
- Prior BigCommerce enterprise-level project experience is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with A/B testing (VWO), analytics (Google), and performance monitoring tools (New Relic).
- Experience working with a CDP (Rudderstack)