Kin + Carta

At Kin + Carta, we’re not here to talk about changing the world. We’re here to make it work better.

Chicago, IL

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Lead Front End Developer

Kin + Carta

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The Lead Front End Developer will guide a team of junior developers to develop and support enterprise-class web applications using all front-end technologies. This is a hands-on technology expert, shaping concepts and seeing the through to detailed design and implementation across a variety of devices and platforms. Responsible for quality and inspiring innovation, the Lead Front End Developer must have knowledge of HTML / CSS and JavaScript as well as proficiency with JavaScript frameworks, coupled with a strong creative contribution.

We’re looking for an individual with initiative, drive and desire to help to build a strong technology practice.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for the delivery of all digital projects
Be a hands-on technology expert, shaping the concept and seeing it through to detailed design and implementation across a variety of devices and platforms
Responsible for the quality of deliverables across a variety of projects
Interface with various back-end technologies, frameworks and services
Lead and partner with other developers, architects, creative technologists, experience designers, visual designers, business consultants, experience strategists, client executives to provide connected thinking for our clients
Lead Interactive Developers must demonstrate the ability to master new / emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools, and share this knowledge with the technical community
Estimate with project managers and client executives staffing needs, schedules, roadmaps, and other operational details to successfully track and drive inflight projects
Advocate for establishing and following coding best practices
Assist with code reviews to ensure the team adheres to the best practices
Takes initiative to offer technical direction and creative solutions
Create prototypes, spikes, architectural diagrams and production code, bringing to life experiences and reconcile the impacts our client’s technology, business & user needs with brand considerations

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience leading 3+ complex platform implementation projects from design (architecture) through implementation and delivery for consulting clients
Excellent understanding of UX
Experience interfacing with various back-end technologies, frameworks and services
Excellent Javascript knowledge, HTML5, CSS3
Expertise with modern Javascript frameworks
Cross-platform / Responsive design & development and Responsive/Adaptive builds

Preferred Qualifications:

Work independently and as a member of a team
Work and communicate effectively with programmers and other IT staff and non-IT functional areas
Lead and coach staff toward thought leadership and project excellence
Engage in skills assessments and promote professional development of staff
Candidates should be flexible / willing to work across this delivery landscape which includes and not limited to Agile Applications Development, Support and Deployment
Excellent problem solving skills
Excellent organizational skills
Being proactive and willingness to learn, develop and adapt

About Kin + Carta

Kin + Carta exists to make the world work better by delivering transformative digital growth for our clients. As a digital transformation firm, we apply creativity, data, and technology to help clients invent, market, and operate new digital products and services that turn prospects into customers, and customers into advocates. Kin + Carta seamlessly integrates the strategic consulting, software engineering, and marketing technology needed to help businesses 'Make It Happen'.

Consultants at Kin + Carta have the opportunity to: engage with the most cutting-edge emerging technologies, solve difficult problems for some of the world’s biggest companies, and work within a breadth of industries.

Kin + Carta is headquartered in Chicago and London with offices across four continents. Our culture and shared ways of working unite us globally, but it’s our diverse specialisms, our connections, and our courage that makes our firm a recognized best place to work.

We welcome our Kin to show up as their full selves every day. Because this is so important to us, Kin + Carta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you need accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

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Where we are

Our Chicago office is in a great tech-focused building right by Ogilvie and Union Station in the West Loop.

Technology we use

Engineering
Product
Sales & Marketing

- .NETLanguages
- C#Languages
- C++Languages
- JavaLanguages
- JavascriptLanguages
- SwiftLanguages
- ReactLibraries
- AngularJSFrameworks
- Node.jsFrameworks
- SpringFrameworks
- AngularFrameworks
- OracleDatabases
- Google AnalyticsAnalytics
- IllustratorDesign
- PhotoshopDesign
- SketchDesign
- AsanaManagement
- ConfluenceManagement
- TrelloManagement
- RallyManagement
- HubSpotCRM
- SalesforceCRM

DeMario Moore

Product Strategy Consultant

PLEDGE TO DIVERSITY

Real action leading to real impact

An openly gay Black man, Moore has faced challenges based on his identity both professionally and personally. At Kin + Carta, however, his experience has been overwhelmingly supportive. Initiatives like Impact, a formal diversity, equity, and inclusion program, and Hiring Our Heroes, a career training for transitioning service members, show Kin + Carta is taking actionable steps to impact underrepresented groups in tech.

Working at a place that not only recognizes the challenges I face when I leave my home but also works actively to limit those challenges is extremely rewarding. I come in knowing that I have an entire organization standing behind my fight to be respected and treated fairly.

DeMario Moore

Product Strategy Consultant

Morgan Sweet

User Experience Design Principal

RECOGNIZING PRIORITIES

Flexibility fosters work-life balance

When Sweet’s child was ill for nearly five days straight, questions ensued: Who will stay home? How will work react? What can get pushed until next week? Kin + Carta alleviates concerns like these by respecting employees’ lives outside of work with flexible work schedules. Sweet’s team was understanding of her absence, removed items from her to-do list and even surprised her with a care package upon her return.

We have parents, we have puppy parents, we have people buying homes, people getting married, people taking night classes and so forth. There’s flexibility provided for us to live life outside of work in a way that is most valuable for us personally.

Morgan Sweet

User Experience Design Principal

Sampath Kunta

Technical Principal

INDUSTRIES OF OPPORTUNITY

Advanced tech meets complex problems

Due to the high number of industries they build for, Kin
+ Carta engineers must quickly learn new technical skills and get up to speed on client and industry needs. Recently, Kunta supported a cloud-based iPad application for farmers that mapped tractor location and seed tracking data, which even included farm visits for field testing. New projects for new companies means never being bored.

We’re like bees, cross-pollinating best practices around different industries. As a consultant, you get opportunities to work with various industries to implement things that you have tried and learned before.

Sampath Kunta

Technical Principal

What are Kin + Carta Perks + Benefits

Culture

Volunteer in local community

Annually we celebrate "Pay It FWD" — a day of volunteering where employees combine forces & give back!

Partners with Nonprofits

Friends outside of work

Eat lunch together

Intracompany committees

Our Diversity, Philanthropy, Wellness, and Social Committees can be joined by any member of our Kin who is interested in collaborating on events and making an impact upon our culture!

Daily stand up

Open door policy

Team owned deliverables

Team based strategic planning

Group brainstorming sessions

Pair programming

Open office floor plan

Diversity

Dedicated Diversity/Inclusion Staff

Unconscious bias training

We offer quarterly "Overcoming Unconscious Bias" training, which creates a common language about bias and arms Kin with tactics to mitigate it across the firm.

Diversity manifesto

Someone's primary function is managing the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives

Mean gender pay gap below 10%

Diversity Employee Resource Groups

Anyone at Kin + Carta can create an affinity group — a safe space for a group and its allies to celebrate and reflect on shared experiences, as well as advocate for positive change across the firm.

Hiring Practices that Promote Diversity

Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Kin + Carta's FSA offers that employees contribute to: Flexible Spending Account, Limited Purpose Spending Account, Dependent Care FSA, Transportation, & Parking.

Disability Insurance

Dental Benefits

For PPO & HMO, Kin + Carta's dental plan pays 100% preventative care (includes oral exams, cleanings, x-rays, and fluoride treatment).

Vision Benefits

We offer national vision coverage through VSP which provides 100% coverage for annual eye exams after a $10 copay, lenses covered after a $25 copay and frames and contact lenses are covered up to $130

Health Insurance Benefits

Kin + Carta offers three national medical plans through BCBS. Two plans are HDHP with an optional HSA, and one plan is a PPO with set copays. We contribute up to $1,000 per year, in employee HSA.

Life Insurance

Wellness Programs

From sponsored 5Ks to Lunch & Learns, our Wellness Committee enables a workplace that encourages environmental and social support of a healthy lifestyle.

Onsite Gym

Team workouts

One of our Wellness Committee's annual initiatives includes sponsoring race teams throughout the year, like the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge.

Mental Health Benefits

Our benefit plan offers Kin access to an Employee Assistance Program.

Retirement & Stock Options Benefits

401(K)

401(K) Matching

Performance Bonus

Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits

Generous Parental Leave

Remote Work Program

Family Medical Leave

Return-to-work program post parental leave

Company sponsored family events

Vacation & Time Off Benefits

Generous PTO

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Days

Perks & Discounts

Beer on Tap

Casual Dress

Commuter Benefits

Company Outings

Some of our favorites include our New Hire Happy Hours, our company-wide holiday party, our annual volunteer event (Pay It FWD), and team outings!

Game Room

Kin + Carta's game room is decked out with snacks, a ping pong table, Wii games, a shuffleboard, and board games for all employees to use when they need a break.

Stocked Kitchen

Our Office Experience team helps to ensure that we always have fruit, coffee (brewed & a fancy espresso machine!), tea, snacks available, and all of the flavored LaCroix that we can handle.

Some Meals Provided

We celebrate our employee's birthdays with a monthly breakfast or lunch that the whole company is able to attend.

Happy Hours

Company-wide happy hours, as well as team happy hours are common at Kin + Carta. The themes and locations differ, but they are always a good time!

Professional Development Benefits

Job Training & Conferences

We offer a wide range of internal training programs, as well as a training budget to pursue professional development.

Lunch and learns

Cross functional training encouraged

Promote from within

Mentorship program

All Kin are assigned a People Leader who provides 1-to-1 support, career mentoring, and leadership advocacy.

Time allotted for learning

Employees are allotted two extra PTO days to use for their own personal training and development.

Online course subscriptions available

Customized development tracks

Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

We have a variety of fun perks, but our favorites focus on our employee's development. We know that investing in employee growth is crucial to our success as a forward-thinking firm. All full-time employees have an annual personal training budget and time off allocated to training. Employees will use this to take classes, buy materials, and go to conferences. We also have internal training programs and knowledge sharing through Capabilities and Lunch and Learns!

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An Insider's view of Kin + Carta

What are some social events your company does?

Kin + Carta celebrates holidays with our office in Argentina - our US offices have introduced Argentina to Halloween, and the Buenos Aires office introduced the US to “Friends Day” in July. We also have a book club, a board game club, football and a Bachelor fantasy draft, co-rec sports, wine tastings and happy hours to celebrate new hires.

Andrea

Client Lead

What does your typical day look like?

My days are pretty dynamic — I could be preparing to lead a workshop, working on a product roadmap, sitting with research on customer interviews, mentoring team members, etc. A few things are constant every day, though: I get to solve interesting problems, I get to be creative, and I get to work with amazing people.

Michelle

Capability Lead

What makes someone successful on your team?

To me, what makes individuals on my team successful is a recognition that there is always something new to learn and always more room for growth. An open, honest desire to not only learn from your teammates' expertise, but also to share your own, is a huge part of what makes a teammate at Kin + Carta successful.

Reid

Technical Principal

What unique initiatives do you have that encourage innovation?

As a digital innovation firm, creativity is in our DNA. We hold an annual client summit to harness the creativity of our Kin. Employees self-organize around our R&D function, solving problems with emerging technologies to show off to our clients. Many of these ideas have gone on to help our clients better understand their end-user.