About the Role
Title: Senior Frontend Developer
Location: Northbrook United States
Job Description:
We inspire purpose-filled living that brings joy to the modern home. With a team of more than 8,000 associates spanning 130 store and distribution locations across the U.S. and Canada, we achieve together, drive results and innovate to inspire. Drawn together by a shared passion for our customers and a spirit of fun, we deliver high-quality home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced and bring beauty and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making-and our story is still unfolding.
We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Senior Front End Developer.
The Senior Front End Web Developer will work with the eCommerce team to implement customer-facing solutions using React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to improve the online shopping experience of Crate and Barrel and CB2 customers. This position requires strong proficiency in UI development as well as close collaboration and communication with Design / UX and product management business stakeholders. Projects primarily are on our customer facing websites.
This role is an Individual Contributor position which can be worked fully remote.
A day in the life as a Senior Front End Developer…
- Designing, developing, and implementing solutions using React, HTML, CSS, and Javascript as your tools
- Working with Brand Teams, Product teams, QA, Analytics and stakeholders to understand and communicate progress
- Conceiving and building responsive and adaptive solutions for website applications
- Working on an Agile team to estimate, develop, test, deploy, and maintain, while collaborating with team members on eCom roadmap and backlog, sprint planning, execution, review, and retrospective
- Participating in technical design meetings with other developers and assisting in defining the front end web architecture, code reviews, and unit testing
- Adhering to pattern-libraries, style guides, site documentation, SDLC
- Coordinating with the front-end development team to ensure adherence to best practices
- Optimizing website speed / performance and enhancing SEO
What you’ll bring to the table…
- Demonstrated ability building websites using HTML/CSS/Javascript for 5+ years
- Excellent knowledge of CSS and Javascript coding best practices
- Ability to build responsive, cross-browser, highly-performant, and accessibility compliant applications (ie WCAG)
- Knowledge using script framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, Node.js)
- Proficiency in using built-in browser tools like Chrome Developer Tools
- Experience working with testing and personalization tools (e.g. Optimizely and/or Adobe Target experience is a plus).
- Experience with bundlers like WebPack
- Strong communication skills
We’d love to hear from you if you have…
- Experience working with JavaScript, Bootstrap or Foundation along with working with CSS preprocessors (LESS or SASS) or CSS Modules / Styled Components
- Experience with JIRA preferred
- Retail experience preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, or Visual Communication desired or relatable experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Minimum of 5 years of Front End UI development experience