Frontend Developer

Position Description
Seeking an innovative and passionate Mid to Senior Front-End Developer to help build the next generation of our award-winning, online banking web applications used by millions of customers. The ideal candidate should be passionate about front-end technology, great user experience and have extensive experience developing dynamic, responsive web applications. Candidates should have strong HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills and experience in building large-scale web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue or Ember.

Job Responsibilities
As a Senior Front-End Developer, you will help guide your team on its journey to create innovative digital banking products for our customers.
Partner with business, UX design and back-end API teams to create world-class customer experiences for the online channel using Agile development methodologies.
Collaborate with other developers on solutions and mentor junior developers.
Enforce secure coding standards through peer code reviews and automated testing.
Guide development teams to review business requirements, design documents, test plans/test cases and performance testing plans.
Effectively communicate technical solutions and recommendations to senior level management 

REQUIRED:

5+ years of experience and a bachelor's degree in science, or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Expert level experience with browser-based technology, user interface development, responsive web design and engineering cross-browser, cross- device compliant code (must have)
Expert level experience with HTML5 and web template engines --Markdown, Handlebars, JSX, Jade (must have)
Expert level experience with CSS3 and CSS Preprocessors - SASS, LESS, etc. (must have)
Expert level experience with JavaScript/ES6/Typescript (must have)
Strong working experience with MVC JavaScript frameworks - React, Vue, Angular, Ember, etc. (ember is ideal but as long as a candidate as any one of the other frameworks will be considered)
Strong working experience with consuming REST API using asynchronous methods (must have - application is API based)
Strong working experience with version control (Git/Bitbucket) and branching strategies (must be able to work in large distributed team, being
able to properly manage and sequence code control is crucial)
Experience with command-line utilities, build tools - Webpack, Grunt, Gulp (must have, these are crucial tools for building the source code)
Server-side JavaScript development (must have)
Enterprise exposure in defect analysis and resolution (must have)
Excellent communication skills at all levels, from team members to senior management
Must be able to help communicate ideas and best practices to more junior developers (expected to mentor JR dev's on the technical side of things)
Enthusiasm and a desire to be part of an innovative team
A commitment to quality, and a desire to improve (soft skills are very important in this role)

Nice to have (not required):
Expert level experience with writing high-quality, semantic, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code
Strong working experience with creating highly-performant, optimized websites
Experience with 508 Compliance/Web Accessibility
Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks -- Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, etc.
Experience with NodeJS
Must have the ability to work in a team within an Agile operating model
Ability to exchange constructive and respectful feedback
Must be able to collaborate with wider groups on standards and best practices