Front End Engineer II (Remote)

Responsibilities

• Develop mobile-first, single page apps using React for use on various devices and in various environments.
• Provide support to the rest of the web development team by converting mockups and wireframes into clean, easy to maintain, and reusable components (using Ember.js).
• Maintain and write new JavaScript and legacy plugins.
• Validate and test for 508 compliancy and cross-browser/platform/device compatibility.
• Lint, evaluate and test all JavaScript.
• Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code that adheres to code standards (check them out at https://github.com/ashdevelopment/standards).
• Absorb and assist with discovery and diagnoses of bugs in the development environment.
• Participate in Front End and scrum team meetings.
• Maintains code libraries and document technical specs.
• Research solutions.
• Participate in code standards and code reviews.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in human-computer interaction, computer science, or a related degree or equivalent experience required.
• 2 years of experience developing and architecting single page applications that adhere to web standards, using a JavaScript framework such as Ember, Angular, React, etc., while consuming APIs in a RESTful or JSON API format required.
• Experience building websites that adhere to mobile-first functionality and fluid layouts required.
• Experience writing clean, reusable, optimized, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required.
• Experience creating reusable components for use across multiple apps in the form of web components, or components as defined in Ember, React, Vue, Angular, etc. required.
• Experience with Ember preferred.
• 1 year writing ES2015, as well as Node.js required.
• Experience writing tasks in Gulp.js or a similar build tool required.
• Experience writing unit, integration, and acceptance/UI tests required.
• Experience working in an agile environment required.
• Familiar with JavaScript concepts such as prototypical inheritance, functional programing, closures, asynchronous programming, types, and promises.
• Able to architect entire single page apps, composed of reusable components, using a JavaScript framework with a solid understanding of working with models and DDAU programming.
• Able to profile JavaScript and debug the entire client side timeline, from initial request to re-rendering components, as well as explain the steps necessary to reproduce and solve issues.
• Demonstrated concern for website performance and user experience.
• Able to give examples of ways to enhance performance on single page apps.
• Up-to-date on the latest Web APIs, as well as HTML features and keeps abreast of browsers support for those features.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies and tools.
• Able to write meaningful unit, integration, and acceptance/UI tests.
• Proficiency with source control, using git or TFS.
• Knowledge of current W3C and accessibility standards.
• Able to develop sites that adhere to 508 compliance, while adopting newer accessibility standards.
• Able to develop against OWASP Top 10 security risks.
• Able to participate in code reviews and provide feedback to more junior level engineers.
• Able to work independently on tasks in a fast-paced, scrum environment, as well as represent the front end on cross-disciplined teams.
• Able to show examples of work and ideas through GitHub, CodePen, or a personal site.