Position Description

Seeking an innovative and passionate Tech Lead to manage and grow a front-end development team in building the next generation of our award-winning, online banking web applications used by millions of customers. The ideal candidate should possess technical leadership experience and be passionate about front-end technology and great user experience. Candidates should have strong HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript fundamentals and extensive experience developing responsive, large-scale web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or Ember.

Job Responsibilities

As a Front-End Tech Lead, you will help champion your team on its journey to create innovative digital banking products for our customers.

• Partner with business, UX design and back-end API teams to create world-class customer experiences for the online channel using Agile development methodologies
• Guide development teams to review business requirements, design documents, test plans/test cases
• Partner with architecture and external development teams to design technical solutions
• Effectively communicate solution recommendations to senior level management
• Lead the development and deployment of new features with your team
• Enforce performance & code quality standards through peer code reviews and automated testing
• Assist with hiring, onboarding and mentoring of new developers for your team

Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Expert-level experience with browser-based technology, user interface development, responsive web design and engineering cross-browser, cross-device compliant code
• Expert-level experience with HTML5 and web template engines -- Markdown, Handlebars, JSX, Jade
• Expert-level experience with CSS3 and CSS Preprocessors - SASS, LESS, etc.
• Expert-level experience with JavaScript/ES6/Typescript
• Expert-level experience with writing high-quality, semantic, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Strong working experience with MVC JavaScript frameworks - React, Vue, Angular, Ember, etc.
• Strong working experience with creating highly-performant, optimized websites
• Strong working experience with consuming REST API using asynchronous methods
• Strong working experience with version control (Git/Bitbucket) and branching strategies
• Experience with 508 Compliance/Web Accessibility
• Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks -- Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, etc.
• Experience with command-line utilities, build tools - Webpack, Grunt, Gulp
• Experience with NodeJS and server-side JavaScript development
• Enterprise exposure in defect analysis and resolution

Behavioral & Communication Skills

• Excellent communication skills at all levels, from team members to senior management
• Must have the ability to work in a team within an Agile operating model
• Ability to exchange constructive and respectful feedback
• Must be able to help communicate ideas and best practices to more junior developers
• Must be able to collaborate with wider groups on standards and best practices
• Enthusiasm and a desire to be part of an innovative team
• A commitment to quality, and a desire to improve

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