Senior Front End Developer

Senior Front End Developer

The eCommerce front end senior engineer provides leadership, direction and implementation on technical projects that affect all consumer brand ecommerce sites. In this role, you will work within a team to implement new features and functionality as well as maintain, support and upgrade existing functionality. In addition, you will utilize prior eCommerce experience to identify and implement improvements in current technology implementations. Your duties will also include driving teams in designing software solutions to meet project requirements, maintaining and refactoring existing code, writing tests, and fixing bugs. Guiding, mentoring, coaching team members on right track to achieve technical solutions per principles.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Develop and maintain the UI tier making use of industry best practices.
• Works with product team to understand project requirements & builds reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Creating technical documentation – Designing architecture, flow diagrams, documenting technical implementation approaches and pseudocode.
• Implement rapid updates to fulfill changing business and marketing requirements.
• Develop functional and technical documentation and designs for assigned projects.
• Work within a team environment, supporting the team goals, and improving web development engineering practices.
• Analyze and optimize front end architecture and maximize page performance.
• Utilize SASS to create responsive page layouts and styles.
• Act as mentor to peers & juniors providing ideas and constructive feedback during brainstorming sessions.
• Set and evolve standards and best practices for our application development teams.
• Develop code consistent with company standard coding practices.
• Lead effort in modernizing frontend UI layer.
• Collaborating with global teams on various technical implementations, discussions.
• Assist Tech Leads, Delivery Managers with team/work status, technical roadmaps, estimations, innovation roadmaps.

What Do You Need To Bring?

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in a related field, writing semantic, modular front-end code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, unit test, system test, deployment and production support.
• Understanding of the concept of progressive enhancement.
• In-depth knowledge of mobile first responsive design.
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging.
• Experience developing code compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG).
• Experience with CI/CD theory and automated testing workflows.
• Experience with the following languages, technologies, or methodologies:
• HTML5, SASS/CSS3
• CSS frameworks (ex. SASS, LESS)
• Expert level knowledge on React, ES6, and legacy jQuery stacks, unit tests using various libraries, e.g.: Mocha, Jasmine, Jest etc.
• Workflow automation using Grunt/Gulp
• Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as Node.js and NPM.
• React/JavaScript design patterns (MVC, Flux, Redux, Hooks)
• Performance optimization tools (YSlow, Pagespeed)
• Understanding & working experience in Monolithic & Micro Frontend Architectures. Experience with Microservices.
• Understanding & strategizing DevOps principles, builds, pipelines, branching, supporting release activities.
• Experience with using backend stack like RESTful APIs or GraphQL
• Demonstrated experience in B2B mobile application development for large enterprises.
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Ability to review specifications documents and provide technical inputs on successfully implementing business solutions.
• Understanding & Knowledge of localization/internationalization principle like i10n, i18n etc.
• Experience with code quality standards and tools like sonar
• Experience writing rudimentary SQL statements (SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE)
• Understanding & basic working experience with Handlebar / Moustache templating.
• Understanding of SEO / SEM best practices.
• Preferred to have experience working on Agile Teams.
• Preferred to have worked on JSP/JSTL or equivalent server-side templating language (PHP, ASP)

Required Skills: JavaScript, HTML, CSS Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: Background Check: Yes Notes: Can sit 100% remote. They are looking for a very strong JavaScript developer. If they have JSP that would be a nice to have and would want to talk with them. This role is exclusive to Apex. Project is basically content spot on site, migrating from one system to a new one it's Adobe Exp Manager. Doing front end site work and converting e-spots (content spots) from old system to new system. For the migration off legacy they're very behind scope wise, only ¼ or ½ way done to get the system moved over. Generally, they do a one round interview process. We have follow up with this team for Friday June 3rd.