Front-End Developer

A fast-growing company that is developing a next-gen comprehensive platform to help clients with professional shipping services, is looking for a Front-End Developer. The developer will be working together with the design team to develop a tool for building interactive interfaces, rapid prototypes of design ideas, and designs that are responsive and accessible. The company is providing best-in-class tools and technology to help e-commerce businesses to get ahead of the game and compete with retail market giants. The company has managed to securely raise around $150mn in funding during their Series E round. This position requires a significant overlap with the CST time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and develop user interfaces using best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce quality products
• Streamline designs for implementation with early input from the design team, and take part in design evaluations for new features, products, and systems
• Lead the construction of a UI testing framework and tests, architect the user interface layer to maximize design and code reuse, and deliver new pages and features
• Develop the engineering team's UI competencies through mentoring, offer suggestions to make the product more usable, and simplify the user interface
• Keep abreast of high-performance best practices and run performance tests frequently
• Continuously improve web pages, and promote the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript advances
• Communicate with non-technical team members and understand the customer needs 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 7+ years of relevant experience as a front-end developer
• 2+ years of experience working with React, building and maintaining a codebase on it
• Extensive experience with web technologies, and knowledge of the latest developments across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript ecosystems
• Solid understanding of REST principles and API Design
• Demonstrable experience with integrating a wide variety of API calls
• Prior experience creating extensible style library and organizing code for reuse and maintainability
• Strong knowledge and understanding of best practices for high-performance websites
• Ability to create responsive web experiences by leveraging browser and device capabilities, while making use of emerging tools and best practices
• Strong knowledge and working experience in asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• A desire to learn new frameworks and technologies
• Working knowledge of test automation and security procedures
• Nice to have some knowledge of AWS and TypeScript
• Working experience in server-side programming languages (Go, Python, Java, or Scala), and MVC frameworks is desirable
• Prior experience building e-commerce applications and UI from scratch is nice to have
• Some experience with Internationalization is preferred 
• Nice to have some experience building stable and effective end-to-end testing
• Exceptional interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills