Senior Front End Developer
Wantable, United States
Job Description
Full-time Salary
SUMMARY:
At Wantable we care about providing a consistent and streamlined user experience across our software platforms. We are currently investing in the future by iteratively migrating areas of our user journey from AngularJS and a home grown SCSS framework to Hotwire/Turbo + Stimulus with Tailwind within our Rails 7 Monolith.
MISSION:
We’re looking for someone to lead the charge on the UX and frontend side with the help and backing of our current team of designers, marketers, full stack engineers, product managers, support engineers and data scientists. You’ll find yourself working in our current and future technology platforms, Shopify themes and Dynamic Yield to maintain design and UX parity between systems and introduce new features. This position reports to the Director of Site Experience on our Marketing team but will partner and work closely with Engineering.
Wantable empowers you to work remotely or at our headquarters and cafe space in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point Neighborhood.
You’re a good fit at Wantable if you
- Are a manager of one
- You have experience in UX and constantly put yourself in the users’ shoes
- Collaborate well on high level design and architecture decisions but are comfortable working solo heads down on components
- Encourage sound architectural practices and general improvements with code reviews
- You understand the importance of and can balance the desire for code perfection with business need
- You are attentive to detail and execute with a high regard for brand guidelines
- Are humble in conversation, but confident in your skills
- Are helpful and approachable (e.g. when a teammate needs help, you'll be there)
- When faced with a hard problem you can break it down into digestible pieces
- When you get stuck you're open and willing to ask for guidance
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, and maintain websites and applications
- Ensuring that all front-end code is optimized for speed, performance, and accessibility
- Understand and execute the software development life cycles and processes at Wantable
- Collaborate with designers and engineers to provide a seamless user experience
- Ensure all web pages are consistent in their layout and design across our current and future platform, Dynamic Yield and Shopify.
- Solid understanding of modern web design principles and best practices.
- Conduct regular code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other members of the development, marketing and/or creative team.
- Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in UX and front-end development.
- Establish and meet project deadlines
- Adhere to and develop coding standards set forth by other developers as well as define new standards and hold others accountable
- Engage with end-users, designers, other developers, and business personnel to create and implement software solutions
- Provide thought leadership within information technology and across the organization striving for top quality customer experience/satisfaction and high company morale
What we are looking for
- The desire to make big and bold contributions that significantly impact the Wantable customer journey and ultimately drive key performance indicators
- Someone with a keen eye for detail and be able to deliver the highest quality of work that meets the specifications of the design team and brand guidelines.
- At least 5 years of experience in UX and front-end development, with a strong portfolio of web design projects.
- Solid understanding of UX and web design principles and best practices.
- Multiple years of industry experience with each of the following:
- Collaborating with backend developers and sharing project responsibilities to create well functioning, aesthetically pleasing websites
- CSS/SCSS and HTML/HAML
- Developing responsive web applications
- Tailwind
- Accessibility
- Consuming REST API’s (we use a Rails backend)
- ECMAScript 2015/ES6 and above
- Vue, React, Angular or similar javascript frameworks
- Github or similar version control and code review
Nice to have qualifications
- Knowledge, experience or interest in any of the following:
- Rails, Hotwire, Stimulus
- Building best in class ecommerce applications
- Writing front end unit and integration tests
- Dynamic Yield Experience in Templates or similar dynamic CMS
- Shopify theming, LiquidJS or any other experience with Shopify as an ecommerce platform
- Platform engineering or devops, deploying/managing/supporting applications in cloud bas