Front End Development Manager
We are looking for a Front-end Development Manager who is passionate about great user experience design and can develop user interfaces and web applications. You'll be using React or Angular and working with HTML5, CSS3 & SASS. You value JS as much as you do CSS and you can explain that “how it looks” is “how it works”. You'll have the opportunity to lead full life-cycle projects, from requirements gathering and technical design through development, launch, and support. Each project gives you the chance to solve unique business problems for our clients, interacting with them directly to create the best solution.
As Front End Development Manager, you will be responsible for managing and coaching a team of developers. This includes interviewing & hiring, goal setting, providing training and feedback, conducting performance reviews, and recognizing positive contributions.
Our scrum teams are small. Your influence will be felt through the code you write and the ideas you bring to the table. Picture yourself interacting directly with clients and collaborating actively with Product Owners, User Experience Designers, and Back-End Developers.
What you’ll be doing:
- Building semantic, accessible, and maintainable front-end interfaces with HTML5, CSS3 and SASS, JavaScript frameworks
- Playing a key role in client communication, project planning, and estimation of front-end tasks
- Managing a team of developers and coaching them for success
- Lead the team of front end developers and collaborate on standards
- Working in an Agile Scrum environment
- Maintaining and improving front-end code bases across a wide variety of projects
- Translating business and user requirements into usable web applications and sites
- Collaborating with UX and UI Designers to promote UX and achieve optimal solutions for clients
- Taking the lead on automated browser and device testing and bug fixing
- Be an internal advocate for UX Design and Front End Development
We want someone who:
- Has 5 + years of experience in front-end development and speaks fluent CSS3, SASS, HTML5 and JavaScript
- Has deep experience with JS and frameworks (React, Angular, etc.), or simply put: can build single page apps
- Pushes to stay current and apply the most innovative industry best practices
- Has strong leadership qualities and experience managing or mentoring staff
- Is positive, proactive and collaborative while also demonstrating humility
- Has intellectual curiosity to pursue the unknown and to continuously learn
- Has experience in agile environments and comfortable with quick iterations
- Has deep experience working with responsive layouts and doesn’t rely on responsive frameworks
- Has experience with Flexbox
- Has experience diagnosing and resolving cross-browser/device challenges and bugs
- Has experience with the structure and usage of REST API's
- Has working experience with modern build systems, source control (TFS, Git, etc.), and task runners (Webpack)
