Senior Front-End Engineer – Technology

Digitas is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to bring bold, award-winning ideas to life.

We use data-driven insights to guide our work, but we also believe in a healthy dose of spirited storytelling. Paving the way for this is our amazing Technology team, dedicated to transforming the marketing landscape. Right now, we’re looking for a Senior Front-End Engineer to lead the charge. Up for it? Read on.

What you’ll do:  

As Senior Front-End Engineer of Technology, you’ll deploy innovative solutions for a variety of projects. You’ll design and build highly dynamic, data-driven internet-based platforms and keep current on the latest developments and trends in internet-based technologies.

Day-to-day, your role includes:
 

• Contributing to the technical design and implementation of practical, maintainable project solutions.
• Front End development and testing of web and mobile applications.
• Performing code reviews, developing and adhering to coding standards for efficiency, readability, and reuse.
• Maintaining a consistent focus on quality for projects.
• Staying on top of evolving web standards.
• Encouraging team awareness and adoption of relevant emerging technologies.
• Working comfortably within a dynamic, challenging environment to meet client delivery deadlines.
• Openly communicating project status, risks and challenges.
• Serving as a recognized subject matter expert within fields of expertise.

We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:

• Deep familiarity with the digital environment.
• Experienced in providing to the technical design and implementation of practical, maintainable project solutions.
• 5+ years of experience with Front-end technologies.
• Demonstrable experience developing and testing modern JavaScript client applications - preferably React, jQuery.
• Proven results and history of solution delivery working with HTML5, XHTML, CSS.
• Knowledge of common productivity tools such as Gulp/Webpack & GIT source control.
• Experience translating designs into completed HTML pages while strictly adhering to specifications.
• Familiarity with concepts related to data flow and component driven architectures with practical experience.
• Integrating presentation layer code with CMS and portal technologies.
• Working closely with back-end developers to ensure the integrity of the UI throughout the development life-cycle.
• Creating unit tests to ensure visual consistency and proper functionality across releases. Ensure cross-browser, cross-platform and multiple device type compatibility and resolve issues.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of modern web development (cross-browser functionality, accessibility, etc.).
• Ability to assess existing solutions for usefulness, usability, and coding techniques.
• Solid understanding of web technologies, responsive design and alignment with the latest trends and best practices.
• Performing code reviews, developing and adhering to coding standards for efficiency, readability, and reuse.
• The capability to lead or contribute to a fast-paced agile delivery team.
• Serving as a recognized subject matter expert within fields of expertise.
• A willingness to explore and find creative solutions to difficult problems.
• Maintaining a consistent focus on quality for projects.
• Staying on top of evolving web standards.
• Encouraging team awareness and adoption of relevant emerging technologies.
• Working comfortably within a dynamic, challenging environment to meet client delivery deadlines.
• Openly communicating project status, risks and challenges.
• Excellent communication, time-management and process-management skills.
• Good exposure to Agile Scrum working environments.

Nice to Have:

·      Experience in integration with Adobe Experience Manager.

·      Node, GraphQL, TypeScript.

·      SQL and document databases.

·      Cloud platforms such as AWS and architectures for leveraging their capabilities.

·      Docker and Kubernete.

·      Experience managing build pipeline dependencies.