Senior Front End Developer

The Critical Mass technology team is looking for an inspired, motivated, and experienced Senior Front End Developer to join our team. We are an experience design agency with a focus on the customer, which means that multi-discipline collaboration and prototyping are at the heart of our process. We're using the latest technologies including React, ES6 JavaScript, pub/sub architecture, and a clean component-based approach to deliver reusable, innovative, and responsive experiences. Web performance & accessibility are also key concerns because of their respective importance to user experience and perception of a premium experience.

You Will:

• Collaborate with Design and UX to prototype user interactions
• Mentor other front-end developers
• Ensure compatibility of code across devices and viewport sizes
• Assess and optimize page performance and WCAG compliance
• Work with delivery team to ensure overall quality of the experience and support this with tests and documentation

 
You Have:

• Strong communication skills with a team-centric approach to discussion and decision making within a distributed team
• 5+ years demonstrated experience using Vanilla Javascript
• 5+ years experience using HTML5 semantic markup, CSS3, and CSS & SVG-based animation on responsive consumer-facing websites
• Full command of Git, the terminal, continuous deployment and integration, and other modern fundamentals
• Strong troubleshooting ability and technical analysis skills - web performance optimization included
• Familiarity with website operations and fluency in the typical tiers on a high traffic website
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools - JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.
• WCAG accessibility experience is preferred

You May Have:

• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) on version 6.3 or later, or enterprise CMS
• Experience with Vue.js or similar
• Experience with graphQL or APIs with complex data structures
• Experience with Webpack, or other tools used to optimize and maintain front-end build systems
• Experience working in an agency environment
• A -very strong- meme game