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Jim Merritt

Senior Software Engineer

Experience

Topstep

2025–Present

Senior Software Engineer

Led trader platform feature development, scoped work for the team, set architecture and review standards, mentored engineers, and drove collaboration across product, design, and engineering toward a shared feature-driven focus.

BrewLogix

2024

Senior Frontend Developer

Led feature planning, GitHub Actions setup, team patterns, tech adoption, mentoring juniors, mono-repo architecture, React Native via Expo, and cross-team collaboration.

Mach One Digital

2021–2024

Senior Frontend Developer

Led frontend architecture, UX/UI decisions, design systems, React Native (Expo) app development, web app builds, API integrations, and backend/frontend planning in small teams.

Kroger

2018–2021

Frontend Developer

Led technical efforts for a smaller team, planned core shopping features, championed TypeScript adoption, collaborated with UX/UI on discovery flows.

Pure Romance

2016–2018

Software Engineer

Angular development, front end design and development for multiple platforms, UX/UI, site planning and testing, HTML email production, managing and coaching junior level designers.

Intrinzic

2013–2016

Digital Designer, Front End Developer

Front end design and development, UX/UI, site planning and testing, graphic design, logo design and brand development.

Skills

Core Technical
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Node
  • React
  • Next
  • React Native
  • GraphQL
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PWA Architecture
  • UI/UX
Data & Platform
  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle
  • Redis
  • BullMQ
  • OpenAPI
  • AWS
  • Snowflake
  • Datadog
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • Storybook
Team & Architectural
  • Platform Architecture
  • Frontend Architecture
  • API & Contract Design
  • Observability
  • Technical Scoping
  • ADRs
  • Agile Development
  • Team Development
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Code Mentoring
  • AI-Assisted Development

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