The Position:

Leapfrog Online is seeking a skilled Front End Developer to join our User Experience (UX) competency; this role will implement and maintain high-volume consumer-facing, conversion-focused websites and e-commerce applications.  Candidates should have 4+ years of experience, preferably working with targeted, data-driven transactional experiences and e-commerce.

Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, test, and optimize targeted, data-driven transactional experiences and e-commerce flows.
• Participate within the UX Team—comprised of Creative, Front End Development, Content Strategy, and Content Production—as a meaningful, collaborative contributor to ideas, process, and innovation.
• Work with cross-functional teams across the organization to provide Front End perspective to potential solutions and communicate enhancements.
• Participate in code reviews, research, and internal initiatives to drive Front End goals as a forward-thinking unit within the organization.

Qualifications:

• A dependable problem-solver with an analytical mind and demonstrable applied experience with modern development standards and practices.
• Strong experience in standards-based, semantic and well-formed HTML 5 markup, with an emphasis on cross-browser, device-independent product where responsive design techniques and modularity are paramount.
• Fluent in writing elegant, truly cascading CSS to bring rich interfaces to life, and associated experience with CSS methodologies (OOCSS, SMACSS, BEM), preprocessing (SASS) and frameworks.
• Experience with JavaScript and its associated ecosystem, prototyping and developing data-driven, complex interface solutions with an eye on performance and reusability. JavaScript ES2015/ES6 experience strongly preferred.
• Familiar with the development and maintenance of web-based applications leveraging fit-for-purpose design patterns and related frameworks.
• Experience with modular templating (e.g., Handlebars/Mustache, Nunjucks) in the context of content management.
• Experience with Node-based tooling and build systems (Gulp, Grunt) and writing Unit Tests (Mocha/Chai). Applied experience with build process implementation in a continuous implementation environment preferable.
• Comfortable with Git version control and using command line interfaces (CLI).
• Comfortable with using image editing software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite), interactive prototyping tools (UX Pin), and asset optimization.
• Detail-oriented, communicative to stakeholders, and able to effectively manage time and priorities.
   

Set Yourself Apart:

• Prior digital agency or consultancy experience
• Experience with Accessibility Concepts and Implementation (Section 508, WCAG 2.0, ARIA).
• Experience with Web Components and modular build tactics such as Atomic Design.
• Email Marketing Experience
• Technical Performance Optimization Experience
• Exposure to or experience with Ruby and/or Python