Team Lead, Progressive Web Application

Job Description

Job Description

Team Lead, Progressive Web Application (Hybrid) Survalent is looking for an innovative and enthusiastic team player to lead our map-centric Progressive Web Application (PWA) team. This team is responsible for delivering high-performance, offline-capable, secure, and intuitive web applications that support users operating in challenging connectivity environments, and extended control room (DMZ) environments. Our PWA is a mission-critical, real-time system used in the field and designed to seamlessly synchronize data once connectivity is restored.  You will be responsible for growing this space and owning the full software development life cycle, from architecture and design through deployment and long-term evolution. This role blends technical leadership, people leadership, and architectural ownership in a complex distributed system. As a Team Lead / Software Development Manager, you should be comfortable designing modern offline-first web architectures, leading the PWA team on service workers and client-side data persistence, and maintaining integrations with REST-based backend systems. You should also be a collaborative leader who enjoys mentoring developers and working closely with Product, Support, and customers. Bonus if you have a knack for visual design!  If you are passionate about building real-time web applications and eager to learn within a team of accomplished industry experts, this is a great opportunity for you!  What you will be doing :   §   Build solutions to real-time and offline software challenges using modern web technologies, including Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) with service workers, background synchronization, and client-side storage.   §   Lead a team of software developers delivering a large-scale React-based PWA that supports offline data access, encrypted client-side storage, and synchronization with backend services.   §   Own the technical plan for current and future features, while maintaining offline-first architecture, IndexedDB data modeling and synchronization strategies, service worker lifecycles, caching, and background sync.   §   Balance and prioritize Product roadmap work, customer Support requirements, and Project-based delivery while ensuring system reliability and performance.   §   Provide technical and people leadership, ensuring work assignments are challenging, meaningful, and aligned with individual growth goals.   §   Champion development processes, tools, and best practices for modern web applications, including CI / CD, code quality, and performance optimization.   §   Conduct code reviews and provide hands-on technical coaching.   §   Facilitate troubleshooting and lead resolution of high-priority customer issues related to data synchronization, offline behavior, and application performance.   §   Lead planning activities that include estimation, sprint planning, and release coordination for the PWA team.   §   Other duties as required / assigned Education and Experience :   §   Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Power Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field.   §   5+ years’ experience in Software Development   §   3+ years’ experience as a Team Lead, Software Development Manager, and / or Senior Architect.   §   Technical. Proven experience building scalable and modern progressive web applications, using React and TypeScript. Strong understanding of scalable web application architecture, including client-server interaction models, caching strategies, and real-time data refresh mechanisms.   §   Customer-focused. Experience with customers to build intuitive workflows and lead our PWA development team in creating valuable online and offline experiences.   §   Agile. Experience with many different SD Life Cycles including Scrum / Kanban / Waterfall, with an emphasis on continuous improvement.   §   Quality-oriented. Background in introducing test frameworks and test automation for web applications. Bonus for experience maintaining a quality pipeline (review / test / deploy).   §   Communication. Excellent communicator who can translate technical concepts into understandable requirements, and who can motivate a team of developers to do their best work.   §   Collaborative. Experience collaborating with other development teams, our Product group, and especially customers.  This is a full-time permanent position reporting to the Vice President, Software Development. If you are interested in joining a growing organization in this exciting role, please apply with your resume and cover letter by selecting the apply link.   About Us : Survalent Technology Corporation is the leading provider of real-time smart grid management system for enabling visualization, optimization, and improved operations for utilities. For six decades, we have helped more than 800 utilities use operational data to increase reliability, efficiency, and customer service. With our proven and reliable SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), Distribution Management System (DMS), Outage Management System (OMS), and Substation Automation (SA) solutions, utilities transform data into actionable intelligence. We partner with utilities across the globe to create mission critical solutions that will achieve the promise of the Smart Grid.    Survalent values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of all races, color, creed, ancestry, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, marital status, family status, and those with disabilities to apply.  Survalent is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.   While we appreciate the interest of all applicants, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.