Front-End Developer

Job Summary

my529 is hiring a Front-End Engineer to build and maintain responsive high-performance web applications using React JS. This role collaborates with a UX/UI designer, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Backend engineers. my529 is a nonprofit, self-supporting agency that administers a public trust. my529 is the State of Utah's 529 education savings plan and is consistently ranked as one of the best 529 plans in the nation.

Responsibilities

• Consistent delivery of quality features within a delivery team’s agreed timeline for completion
• An ongoing focus of representing front end concerns by providing feedback and insight to delivery team members during the lifecycle of a story/feature implementation
• Maintaining front end application health and security through vigilant reduction of technical debt while coding, running security scans before deployment
• Participating in ongoing secure code training
• Balancing reliance on third party libraries with as much functionality as possible from vanilla/proprietary JavaScript
• Support fellow front end engineers by employing best practices in code reviews and technical meetings
• Keeps user concerns forefront while balancing a reasonable engineering effort when considering proposed Requirement Acceptance Criteria and UX mock-ups

Skills & Abilities

• Experience creating and maintaining Single Page Applications (SPA) using React JS; A solid understanding of JSX, the React Component Lifecycle & State, the Virtual DOM, Context, Routing, Reusability, and Data Flow
• Experience with Redux JS Action Creators, Reducers and the Redux Store
• Experience with Material-UI's React component library and Material Design concepts
• Experience creating and maintaining Responsive applications
• Experience creating unit tests for React components and Redux Reducer classes
• High degree of comfort & proficiency within Chrome Developer Tools
• Working understanding of RESTful API's (JSON) and web services
• Basic understanding of SQL relational databases
• Experience working with a team using GIT Source Control, branching/merging/versioning
• Experience with Agile project management
• Exposure to secure coding practices
• Experience maintaining your local work environment in Visual Studio Code on macOS

Minimum Qualifications

• 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience)
• EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Preferences

• Three+ years of front-end web application development
• Two+ years of React specific experience
• Proficiency coding in modern JavaScript, CSS and HTML
• Experience using many JS frameworks and libraries
• Experience using Artificial Intelligence such as Github Copilot within the IDE
• Enjoys learning
• Enjoys change and growth
• Is adaptable
• Appreciates the "best idea wins" culture