Frontend Developer

YOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO:

Consult

• Provide thought leadership to prospects and customers in areas of digital customer experience technologies 
• Build relationships and become a trusted advisor for Appnovation’s customers, business development, client services and project leadership teams
• Partner with Appnovation colleagues from Strategy, Creative/UX, Data Science, Architecture, Engineering, Creative Technology, Quality and Delivery on ideation, proposal definition and delivery of world class innovative customer experiences
• Actively contribute to Pre-Sales activity, product lifecycle planning, statement of work (scope, deliverables, tasks, effort estimations and risk/constraint identification) and project delivery
• Contribute to the ideation process for user experience and delivery process refinements
• Lead effective interpretations of client’s needs as outlined in creative briefs
• Audit existing implementations, identify gaps, recommend improvements and benefits
• Translate marketing strategies and creative requirements into technical specifications
• Articulating and advocating best practices

Build

• Solve complex user experience functional and technical challenges
• Combine design theory, and take into consideration content, navigational structure and usability issues to create a powerful and integrated experience
• Implement and promote adherence of group technology standards and practices to ensure the highest degree of software quality
• Adhering to client technology standards and practices

• Create and present demos, proof of concepts or work in progress based on unique customer scenarios in client facing meetings
• Conduct code reviews
• Deliver code that is optimized for effectivity, efficiency and security
• Stay current with technology and industry best practices to ensure that skill set/knowledge base remains broad and current

Share

• Bring in new sources of creative inspiration to your work and team
• Create knowledge base articles for marketing, case studies, whitepapers and/or to share experiences with broader Appnovation team
• Deliver applicable supporting documentation
• Educate staff members through training and individual support

JOB SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS:

Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business (marketing focus preferred), computer science, or equivalent 
• 6+ years of web and/or mobile user interface development experience, developing across multiple platforms and has delivered projects as part of a team
• Expert knowledge in HTML5 and CSS3, responsive design, flexbox, SCSS or LESS
• Deep understanding of modern web and/or mobile interface development frameworks and build tools
• Deep understanding of combining design theory and user centric design principles with content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility and SEO considerations
• Deep understanding of typography, illustration, storyboarding and iconography
• Deep understanding of Javascript and component-based architecture
• Deep understanding of software quality attributes (eg. Correctness, Reliability, Adequacy, Learnability, Robustness, Maintainability, Readability, Extensibility, Testability, Efficiency, Portability)
• Strong understanding and experience with version control systems
• Strong understanding of security and privacy by design principles
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and processes
• Strong understanding of BEM, SMACSS, CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, Scoped CSS
• Strong understanding of client-side state management and routing
• Ability to comfortably build user interfaces from scratch with no frameworks or boilerplates
• Experience working with a modern JS frameworks (eg. Angular, React or Vue.js)
• Experience working with ES6 and modular JavaScript programming
• Experience working with WCAG 2.0 or 2.1 Level AA web accessibility guidelines
• Experience with e2e testing, CircleCI, GitHub Pull Request workflow
• Experience working with one or more Content Management Systems (coupled and headless) and Digital Asset Management Systems (eg. Adobe, Sitecore, Drupal or Contentful)
• Experience working with microarchitectures, SOAP and REST APIs
• Experience working with delivery methodologies (eg. Waterfall, Agile - Scrum, SAFe, DAD)
• Understanding of working with ML and ML APIs

Nice to Haves: 

• Data dashboards, Veeva/Salesforce certifications, experience with PWA, Service Workers, Webpack, and performance optimization
• Experience managing and mentoring other developers an asset

WHO YOU ARE:

• Continuously enhancing creative and technical skills
• Experience in customer facing roles
• Excellent communication skills