Senior Front-End Developer

Senior Front-End Developer

The Museum of Modern Art is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Front-End Developer to join our engineering team. This critical role is responsible for owning the technical front-end design system, architecture, and implementation, ensuring a consistent, high-quality, and performant user experience across all digital products.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the technical owner of the front-end codebase, architecture, and deployment strategy for various internal and public-facing applications.
• Designs, develops, and maintains a robust, reusable component library and front-end design system, enforcing standards for accessibility (WCAG), performance, and responsive design across all devices.
• Drives the adoption and proficiency of our core front-end stack: Tailwind CSS, Stimulus, and Ruby on Rails. This includes selecting appropriate libraries and patterns for complex user interfaces without relying on heavier frameworks.
• Delivers well-tested, optimized, and high-performance code, focusing on minimal JavaScript payloads and efficient CSS rendering.
• Works closely with Product and Design to translate visual concepts into highly accurate, functional, and maintainable code.
• Acts as a front-end Subject Matter Expert (SME), conducting peer code reviews, setting coding standards, and mentoring other developers on best practices in modern, lightweight front-end development.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex performance, rendering, and architectural issues in production environments.
• Maintains and improves existing front-end systems and integrations.
• Works with external vendors as needed to integrate or build out new front-end functionality.
• Performs any other duties reasonably related to the functions described above.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of five years of professional software development experience, with at least three years focused on Senior Front-End development and architecture.
• Expert-level proficiency with JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.
• Deep experience with Ruby on Rails and integrating modern front-end tools into the Rails ecosystem.
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing interfaces using Tailwind CSS.
• Proven expertise with Stimulus (or a similar lightweight, convention-based framework) for interactivity.
• Strong understanding of responsive design, performance optimization (Lighthouse/Web Vitals), and web accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Experience with Agile development, pair programming, and test-driven development (TDD), including unit and end-to-end testing of UI components.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills to effectively articulate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Reports to: Associate Director of Enterprise Applications

Salary Range: Minimum of $140,000 to a maximum of $160,000 per annum

Application instructions: To apply, please visit MoMA Jobs. Applicants should submit a resume and a statement of interest.

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