Vokal, is seeking an exceptional web engineer to join our development team. At Vokal you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects for clients ranging from early startups to the Fortune 500. You will be on a team dedicated to employing best-practices across a range of technologies. Your experience as a member of our team matters just as much as the experiences we create for our clients and the users of our products.

If you are an experienced JavaScript engineer who loves to solve problems and gets excited about agile frontend web development, we can’t wait to have you on board.

This position is based in our home office, located in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

We also offer a competitive compensation package.

Position Responsibilities

• Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop innovative, consumer-facing, and enterprise website and mobile solutions
• Interface with Vokal and third-party APIs to bring a web application to life from the ground up, leveraging HTML, CSS and JavaScript equally throughout
• Support and collaborate with clients, other developers, and designers to determine business and technical solutions
• Continually deliver creative solutions with awesome execution

Required Experience

• 3+ years of professional website frontend development experience
• Proven understanding of and experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Traits

• Motivated to be the best developer you know

Required Technical Skills

• Fluent in JavaScript
• Active understanding of semantic HTML, the DOM, and document outlines
• Able to build website layouts to design without the aid of CSS frameworks
• Responsive design techniques using CSS media queries and flexible layouts
• Interacting with JSON APIs and an understanding of HTTP status codes
• Experience writing automated tests

Preferred Skills

• Node.js development
• React Native, Cordova (vanilla, Ionic, PhoneGap), or native application development
• Grunt, Gulp, Webpack or similar
• Continuous Integration or devops experience, such as AWS or Azure
• Git and GitHub
• User experience design and information architecture
• Other language and platform experience, Python, Go, .NET, etc.
• Active open source contributor, community member, blogger or presenter

Interested? Apply Today!

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Vokal is an industry-leading digital experience agency specializing in mobile application development, responsive website development, user experience design, and branding in an interconnected world. We are redefining the expectations of what value mobile can create through our success in enterprise mobility management, digital development, and mobile experience design innovation.