Front-End Engineer

A rapidly-growing company dedicated to helping users find financial security in freelancing is looking for a Front-End Engineer. The engineer will script high-quality code, design, build, and implement the front-end ecosystem that enables web development. The company helps users to find the best retirement investment plan for their freelancing future. This will be a long-term, full-time role requiring 5+ hours overlap with the PST time zone.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, modify, upgrade, and maintain a foundation of front-end ecosystem and underlying tools used for building product experiences
• Implement changes to optimize the productivity of the front-end engineering team
• Lead and implement innovating concepts for front-end development experience
• Treat user experience as the top priority in all projects in the pipeline
• Debug problems that span systems and design solutions for the whole stack
• Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Holds themselves and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Write high-quality code and work outside the front-end technologies
• Be adept at clear, concise, well-organized, and written communication 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a front-end developer
• Must possess professional experience of working with languages Vue.js, React, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Experience with Typescript and RESTful API
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Ability to create reusable, scalable components
• Solid understanding of key design principles and server-side CSS
• Understanding of SEO principles
• Excellent troubleshooting and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Ability to utilize front-end ecosystem to work on complex web applications with a global user base
• Capability to debug problems and design solutions to optimize the whole stack
• Must be able to utilize user preference - internal and external, for developing efficient applicants
• Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator is nice to have
• An understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing is desirable
• In-depth knowledge of cross-browser compatibility, progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, responsive design, website performance, and accessibility