Front End Engineer

Front End Engineer-(23013375)

Description

Position Summary

Participates in the development and architecture of responsive web sites, applications, and marketing materials. Collaborates with server-side engineering, design, product, and marketing teams to execute, test, and deploy quality interactions of varying complexity.

Plans and leads technical solutions.Supports Sr. and Lead developers, as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborates with design and development teams (back-end developers, testers, business analysts, UX designers, researchers, and creatives) to deliver features on Big Lots digital products.
• Develops Javascript and React applications for Big Lots’ ecommerce website and other digital properties.
• Translates business requirements, wireframes, and comps into estimable, testable acceptance criteria that serve as a charter for fault-tolerant, cross-browser compatible, and accessible front-end code.
• Delivers front end code on time and to spec with a balance of what’s good, what’s best, what’s now, and what’s next.
• Advocates for the best user experience as a member of a customer-obsessed team of front-end technologists working to build a library of extensible, scalable, and reusable UI code.
• Assists in planning and architecting technical solutions.
• Creates interfaces for new and enhanced functionality on our ecommerce platform.
• Implements and supports stack improvements and stack related documentation.
• Maintains awareness of development trends / technologies and participates in the cross pollination and elevation of the Front-End Team skillset.
• Performs research for new features, functionalities, and site optimizations.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, information technology, web development, or related field required.
• Minimum four years of experience developing interfaces with an in-house, corporate, agency or similar interactive / digital design / development team required.
• Expertise in development with JavaScript, React, Node required.
• Experience with modern Javascript standards like ES6+ and using them with modern frameworks to build reusable components required.
• Strong knowledge and working experience with Javascript libraries / frameworks (JQuery, third party plugins, etc.) required.
• Expert knowledge of modern front-end tooling and practices including CSS preprocessors, Javascript package managers, and Test-Driven Development preferred.
• Applied experience with accessibility standards and WCAG AA compliance required.
• Experience with version control systems (SVN, Git, etc.) preferred.
• Experience developing for transactional and marketing platforms (eCommerce, financial, insurance, etc) preferred.
• Experience in mobile driven development preferred.
• Experience implementing analytical tagging using Adobe Launch preferred.
• Experience implementing marketing emails using Salesforce Marketing Cloud preferred.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple projects from concept through final production required.

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