Staff Engineer - Front End

Description

If you’re excited about solving complex challenges and enjoy learning new skills in an ever changing web application, we’d love to hear from you! Join our like-minded people and make your footprint in building our next cutting edge web application. You must be well-rounded, self-motivated, experienced with multiple UI technologies and frameworks, and enjoy fast paced development cycles. You must be an expert in understanding complex, large-scale JavaScript applications in the cloud, such as Angular, React, Vue, etc. We love to see portfolios of recent project designs and/or code samples. Responsibilities:

· Providing technical leadership to a team of cross functional engineers, and be accountable for the technical decision making for your team

· Manage, organize, and motivate the front-end engineering team

· Lead architectural and technical improvement projects

· Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs

· Ensure the quality and stability of the front-end codebase

· Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

· Develop and maintain user-facing features

· Share your experience and continue to learn

· Optimize the application for maximum speed, scalability, and maintainability

· Be active in the developer communit

Requirements

Exceptionally skilled Front-End Web Engineer with a solid technical background and leadership skills, able work in a fast-paced environment primarily using the latest front-end development practices.

· 10+ years expert UI programming skills with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, including extensive experience with React and/or Angular, and Node.js

· 5+ years in a Tech Leadership role in building scalable Web Applications on modern cloud based tech stacks

· Deep technical expertise on JavaScript frameworks and single page application design and development

· Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and design patterns

· Proficiency with the DOM and asynchronous event-programming models

· Track record of cross browser development on a large scale public facing application

· Ability to complete projects with minimal supervision and direction

· Solid understanding of responsive design, web standards, and UI/UX best practices

· Experience with blue/green deployments as an application release model

· Experience using multiple JavaScript/CSS frameworks and libraries (Angular, React, Bootstrap, Storybook, etc.)

· Experience with UI testing and automation frameworks (Protractor, Jasmine, Cucumber, etc.)

· Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodology

Bonus skills:

· Active collaboration in open-source communities

· Experience with CSS pre-processors such as Sass, Less or Stylus

· Experience with node development workflows (npm, gulp, etc.)

· Experience with data visualization APIs and JSON (Highcharts, D3, Google Charts, etc.)

· Previous Mobile (web and/or native) development experience a plus

· Financial Services experience is a plus

Education:

· Degree in computer science or related fields