Lead Front End Developer - Contract to Hire

Position Details

Title: Lead Front End Developer

Location: Frisco, TX 75034

Duration

03 – 06 Months Contract to Hire

• This role reports to the Director of Experience Design.
• Candidates must be able to provide examples of work (ideally showing designs referenced, code produced, and accessible examples)
• Develops user interface design prototypes to serve as a guide for system/program development.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes with working HTML/CSS/JavaScript directly from a UX/UI static and dynamic prototype designs from designers
• Build and maintain HTML and CSS for different components and styles in a live style guide
• Ability to complete documentation on how to use components in the style guide
• Ability to diagnose UI bugs in the working application and fix them in the web application
• Completes code reviews with other developers
• Stays abreast of new trends and produces proof of concepts to show design team what is possible.
• Travel is estimated to be below 5%
• Experience working in an agile environment, updating tasks in scrums, meeting commitments provided to different agile teams
• Participate in collaborative review of functional and technical requirements.

Educational and Experience Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field of study. 5+ years of required experience coding.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

Ideal team player personality

Candidate must be Humble, Hungry, and Smart.

• Ability to work well with both technical and non-technical team members in both small and large settings.
• Willingness to learn (from teammates and professional sources) as well as readily share knowledge
• 5+ years in front end development particularly HTML5, CSS, SCSS, and JavaScript
• Basic understanding of design sensibilities focusing on ensuring outstanding usability and aesthetics characteristics.
• Experience with Web Application development and Responsive Design Framework.
• Experience with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, AngularJS, etc.
• Familiarity with MVC, MVVM and Single Page Application.
• Strong organizational, writing, and verbal skills. Able to attend meetings, take notes, and ensure tasks are completed
• Ability to prioritize work load and consistently meet deadlines.
• QA experience - particularly ability to cross browser test
• Code development management experience (using Git(hub) and pull requests)
• Style Guide creation and update experience (particularly with Handlebars and JSON)
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Online (VSO) ideally (or other similar development work tracking such as Jira or ScrumWorks)

Additional Desired Qualifications

• Angular 2 experience
• Flexbox experience
• Power BI, QlikView, Tableau, etc. data visualization coding experience
• Experience with Fractal.build documentation
• Usability testing experience or certifications
• Experience developing for touch and gesture UIs
• QA certifications
• Familiarity with Slack, Trello,
• Experience working with Team to build complex enterprise applications.
• Familiarization of Agile methodologies is a plus particularly SAFe.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.