Lead Front-End Developer

About the role

Bring your technical expertise, passion, and curiosity to a leadership role on a creative and energetic team that builds innovative digital experiences for our clients. As a Lead Front-End Developer, you’ll work closely with every part of One North. You’ll partner with industry-leading strategists and designers, work alongside architects and developers, and help shape technical direction from discovery through launch. The Lead Front-End Developer provides technical leadership across client engagements while staying close to the craft of delivery.

As a Figma Service Partner, we work deeply within the Figma ecosystem, from early design exploration through production handoff and design system management. This position is for remote or hybrid workers. Our home office is based in Chicago, and applicants in the Chicago area are expected to be in the office part time for a light hybrid onsite/remote work model. We are also open to remote locations across the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Craft beautiful, useful end-user experiences while engineering for performance, accessibility, and maintainability
• Lead front-end implementation efforts across client engagements, providing technical direction from discovery through delivery
• Establish project-level architecture, development standards, and implementation approaches in partnership with architects and project teams
• Identify technical risks early and recommend practical mitigation strategies
• Provide thoughtful guidance, code review, pairing, and mentorship for front-end developers and senior front-end developers
• Partner with designers to translate design intent into pixel-considered, production-ready experiences
• Guide implementation of design systems, component libraries, and front-end standards across client work
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teammates to deliver strategic solutions to our clients’ challenges
• Contribute to estimation, planning, staffing recommendations, and scope definition for front-end work
• Help evolve internal standards, component patterns, AI-enabled workflows, and engineering practices

Requirements

• 6 or more years of professional front-end development experience, ideally in an agency or consulting environment
• Advanced practitioner of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using current best practices
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript. Comfortable in a typed codebase and able to model complex data well
• Significant production experience with React and Next.js
• Strong understanding of front-end architecture, component design, and scalable implementation patterns
• Bespoke CSS/SCSS fluency. Comfortable architecting styles from scratch without leaning on Tailwind or other utility frameworks
• Experience designing, building, consuming, and governing component libraries and design systems
• Deep proficiency with Figma and the broader Figma product suite (Figma Design, Dev Mode, FigJam, variables, libraries)
• Ability to build resilient, responsive sites that deliver consistent experiences across screen sizes, devices, and browsers
• Demonstrated ability to meet WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards
• Solid grasp of SEO fundamentals, especially semantic markup and Core Web Vitals
• Hands-on experience with headless CMSs (Contentful, Sanity, Contentstack, or similar), including content modeling collaboration in addition to integration
• Comfortable integrating third-party libraries and SDKs to meet project requirements
• Confident with Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review
• Experience with JavaScript animation libraries (GSAP, Framer Motion, Three.js, etc.)
• Demonstrated success leading technical delivery across projects and mentoring developers

Skills

• Exceptional communicator who genuinely enjoys collaboration
• Strong mentoring and coaching mindset
• Ability to align technical decisions with business goals and client needs
• Sharp eye for detail and high personal standards around the work
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making informed recommendations
• Ability to influence without relying on formal authority
• Professional curiosity, with a habit of staying current on where the industry is heading
• Engaged in best practices, standards, and the broader front-end community

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage including Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO and a health savings account with employer-funded contributions
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Life/AD&D insurance and Short/Long Term Disability insurance (free for full-time employees, with optional additional voluntary coverage)
• 401(k) plan with employer-matched funds
• Transportation Benefits for pre-tax contributions to pay for parking and public transit
• 4 weeks of paid time off, plus company paid holidays, with additional accrual after 3-year and 10-year anniversaries
• Paid Parental and Primary Caregiver Leave for new births, adoptions, or foster placements
• Employee Perks Program offering member-only discounts and corporate rates on various services and products

Pay

Base salary range of $118,100-$174,700. We reserve the right to pay above or below this range based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses and profit sharing.