Lead Front End Engineer

Job Title: Lead Front End Engineer

Location: New York City or Remote work (On-prem facilities may become available at the beginning of Q4 for local team members, giving access to full company resources).

Mode of interview: Phone and Video

Contract length: 2+ year

Must Haves:

• This position requires previous experience leading a team in Front End JavaScript engineering and UI. The candidates would need to be extremely strong in UI, JavaScript, and have a solid background in testing.

• Must have Advanced-level JavaScript engineering expertise - less focused on Pixel-Perfect development (although an understanding of UX principles and standards is important) and more geared towards code in the browser.

• The Ideal candidate will have worked on:

o Tokenization, Encryption, Signatures, etc. in a JavaScript context.

• Expertise in ECMA6 / ECMA7. For example:

o Promises

o Scoping

o Literals

o Map/Set, WeakMap, WeakSet

o Arrow Functions

o Typed Arrays

o Classes

o Destructuring

• Expertise in CSS & Preprocessors such as LESS, Stylus, etc.

• Possess a solid understanding of two or more component-based frameworks and their ecosystems.

o Vue, React, Vanilla, etc. (React and Vue are preferred)

• Have an appreciation for the complexities associated with writing JavaScript SDKs, libraries, and third-party integration code.

o The JS that this Engineer will write will talk directly to Java-based Microservices & RESTful Services.

• The ideal candidate will have gained expertise in enterprise-class shops, while engineering solutions that function at scale. The bigger and “cloudier”, the better.

• Must possess a Quality Engineering mindset & gladly writes Unit Tests with a smile on their face.

o Will be using tools such as Mocha, Karma, Protractor, Cucumber, Jasmine, etc.

• We need true Engineers, who have gone through their programming career primarily using JavaScript, as opposed to Java, C#, etc. (Candidates should know JavaScript backwards and forwards). We DO NOT want “JS Ninjas”, “Script Kiddies”, or “Web Vikings”.