Technology Lead, Front End

As Technology Lead you’ll be tasked with delivering on fast-paced, creative, campaign-centric projects. You’ll put your knowledge of HTML, CSS, jQuery and JavaScript to architect accessible, scalable, and performant web experiences. You’ll collaborate closely with Project Delivery, Creative, QA and DevOps team members through each iteration of work, helping to push your project to the finish line. Previous leadership experience will be key to guiding & mentoring a small team of more junior developers through day-to-day problems, as well as ensuring a high quality of work.

You will:

• Work with the Technology Director on strategic initiatives and campaign work
• Architect the technical solution designs for development and provide developer estimates
• Oversee the development process, ensure appropriate project standards are being followed and lead code reviews
• Provide hands-on development support to project team where necessary
• Collaborate iteratively with the Creative team, creating and adjusting prototypes accordingly
• Provide mentorship for the development team

You have:

• 2+ years experience as a Tech Lead or in a comparable technology leadership role
• Strong fundamental and practical knowledge of HTML, CSS, jQuery and JavaScript
• Experience managing or leading a team
• A strong problem-solving, detail-oriented approach
• Experience collaborating with Creative team members
• Experience managing development and delivery of commercial websites
• Familiarity with website operations on a high traffic website
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and development pipelines
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools - JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc
• Experience with enterprise-grade content management platforms such Adobe Experience Manager or Sitecore is a "nice to have" skill
• Experience working in a multi-tenanted architecture is "nice to have"

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, on-boarding, and employee experience possible!  Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success.  In effort to do so, we’d like to establish the ask that you plan to work from an office a minimum of 2 days a week.  The ask stems from our want to:

• Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
• Improve collaboration and team relationship.
• Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM.  We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.