Sr. Frontend Engineer [UI Focused - Automotive]

We are seeking a Sr Frontend Engineer with 4+ years of experience building large-scale web applications with distributed teams. This is a 12-month contract with the opportunity for extension or conversion to FTE. You'll be joining a high visibility product team focused on producing a best-in-class customer experience in the automotive industries, designing and building the next generation client architecture serving 9M+ monthly visitors.

Skills

1. Ability to take ownership of work items and help cultivate new ones with a Product-first mindset
2. Frontend app development
3. Be self-organizing, respect projects conventions, communicate clearly and briefly
4. GraphQL API concepts and implementation patterns
5. Testing (unit, integration, CI/CD E2E)
6. Ability to work and communicate primarily across GMT-5 through GMT-3 (where our teams reside and work), with a minimum of 6-hour overlap with GMT-5 (the client's location). 

Languages/frameworks

1. React 16 and higher
2. SCSS (Flexbox, CSS grid)
3. Typescript
4. Next.js
5. Cypress
6. Node.js LTS
7. Understanding of infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, or Serverless)

Tooling

1. CI/CD Pipelines
2. Chrome/Firefox Debugging Tools
3. React Profiler for performance
4. Familiarity with code bundling & splitting strategies and tools
5. Sentry and similar exception analysis providers
6. Various Analytics providers

To thrive as a member of our team, you must:

• Operate with an ownership mentality by taking initiative, being resourceful, and executing with passion
• Have excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Be able to work the hours necessary to communicate with our development teams in North, Central, and South America
• Be a quick learner and be passionate about learning
• Embody creativity, be honest, humble, mature, committed, and cultivate a positive culture
• Be a team player and educator