Front End Engineer

Why iCrossing

We work at the intersection of bright pixels of creativity, sharp use of data points, innovative tech, and cutting-edge digital know how. That's how we turn brand potential into business performance. And that's why we stand out.

We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds, cultures, and disciplines that come together to form one epic unit. What we do starts with our people.

We are part of the Hearst Corporation, the world's leading media, entertainment, and content company, which gives us access to the most valuable insights, talent, and audiences.

About this job

As an iCrossing Front End Engineer you'll be instrumental in innovating and developing immersive digital experiences on cutting edge,large-scale, enterprise consumer facing websites. You'll be successful by leveraging your technical front end development expertise to build these websites on an enterprise content management system (CMS).

What you'll do

• Develop front end code for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites.
• Implement high fidelity, responsive front-end layouts from creative comps.

• Collaborate with back-end developers to integrate front end code in applications.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility of front-end code across devices.
• Be a key part of an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies.
• Collaborate with Technical Managers to estimate specific work assignments, ensure the quality of your deliverables and provide status updates and highlight issues.
• You will participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.

Who you are

• 2+ years of experience building websites.
• Solid understanding of:

• HTML5, CSS (SASS/Less) and JavaScript.
• Modern web development practices including implementing responsive design and mobile first layouts.
• JavaScript libraries such as React or Angular Experience.
• Node-based workflow and build systems such as Webpack.

• Adeptness at

• GIT and best practices for version control across distributed teams.
• Multilingual website development.

• Knowledge of working with git and shells in a terminal on daily basis.
• Skills at setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment.

Great if you also have

• AEM Developer Certification and experience with:

• AEM applications using version 6.5 or AEM as a Cloud Service.
• Custom components using HTL.
• Custom templates (Editable and Static).
• Custom client libraries.

• Understanding of integration of web pages and applications with RESTful webservices.
• Ability to establish presentation layer technical requirements.
• Experience producing interim deliverables (such as style guide components, technical specifications, browser + market analysis, prototypes, proofs of concept, etc.) to the final live site or application.
• Participation in authoring of technical and business requirement documentation.
• Some proficiency in UX design, information architecture and/or graphic design, but prefer to code!

Our Mission & Values

The iCrossing mission is to Transform Experiences. The "we" is implied, but never taken for granted. This mission impacts the way we work, the way we think, the way we treat one another, and the way we evolve into what we want to be. We operate as a community of humans, and we can adapt and evolve because we are guided by values not rules.

Our core values map back to our vision.

Be Kind: lead with compassion. What you truly know about someone's life is very little.

Know The Line: lead with candor. Is what you say true, good, and useful?

We Before Me: lead for others. The sum is always going to be greater than the parts

We evolve clients for a human-centric future - creating a better world for everyone.

Benefits

iCrossing offers a range of employee benefits including generous PTO, 11 paid holidays, 401k + company match, full medical/dental/vision coverage, FSA & HSA options, family leave, commuter benefits, and more.

About our technology team

We're engineers and solutions integrators experienced at all levels of the application life cycle. No matter our individual role, every team member has two essential responsibilities: build technologies that power digital transformations and make the impossible, possible.

With a clear focus on creating engaging, rich, and dynamic customer experiences, together we create world-class data-driven solutions for Omni-channel digital marketing initiatives. Keeping up with the proliferation of devices, operating systems and APIs takes some serious technical talent - and our team has lots of it!

We are better together. Each one of us has a role in making iCrossing an energizing and inspiring place to work.