Front End Developer

Location: Remote, USA

Summary: Front End Developers are responsible for co-creating, and troubleshooting scalable web and mobile applications for various DMS verticals. On the day-to-day, our Front-End Developers design new features, tools, and improve functionality and user-experience of our current sites and platforms.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Creates, investigates, fixes, and proactively avoids coding and web defects.
• Works to optimize the build, release, and test processes while contributing to technical and process improvements.
• Assists in back-end, API integration and development.
• Works alongside other developers to provide code review feedback, and embraces innovation to create successful programs.
• Collaborates in the product & design to create new features, tools, and improve functionality and user-experience of our current offerings.
• Lead direction of front-end engineering and application user-interface design.
• Works with product analysts and designers on UX and overall solutions.
• Executes end-to-end testing with QA to ensure the quality and coverage of code.
• Reviews and suggests process and technical improvements with the goal of optimizing our build, release, and the testing of processes.
• Contribute to Scrum activities: groom the backlog, plan and execute work in progress, and refine processes.

• 5+ years' professional experience as a software engineer.
• Expert understanding of HTML, CSS and with proficiency with responsive web-design, JavaScript and AJAX.
• Experience utilizing RESTful web services, APIs.
• Solid understanding of HTTP standards and networking in general.
• Ability to manipulate graphics/images for use in applications.
• Experience implementing applications using style guides and wireframes.
• Understanding of backend architecture principles and RESTful design.
• Self starter, motivated by personal enrichment.
• Team-oriented and collaborative, capacity to mentor junior team members.
• Leadership ability, excellent written and verbal English skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with latest technologies including ES6+, HTML5, CSS3.
• Understanding of bundling, transpiling—Webpack, Babel, Sass.
• Experience with a server-side languages.
• Experience collaborating with other developers using GitHub/BitBucket.
• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Good eye and passion for quality UI/UX design.
• Proficiency with Sketch and Photoshop.

Extra Qualifications, Experience with...

• Javascript using functional frameworks like React.js or Vue.js.
• With scripting languages such as PHP or Python
• Tools and services: Docker, Jira, Confluence, GTM, Optimizely.
• Amazon Web Services such as EC2, S3, SES, Lambda.
• Emerging technologies we have adopted recently or are considering: JSON:API, GraphQL.
• Working within a microservice architecture.