Lead Front End Developer - Contract to Hire

Position Details:

Title: Lead Front End Developer

Location: Frisco, TX 75034

Duration : 03 – 06 Months Contract to Hire

· This role reports to the Director of Experience Design.

· Candidates must be able to provide examples of work (ideally showing designs referenced, code produced, and accessible examples)

· Develops user interface design prototypes to serve as a guide for system/program development.

· Build high-fidelity prototypes with working HTML/CSS/JavaScript directly from a UX/UI static and dynamic prototype designs from designers

· Build and maintain HTML and CSS for different components and styles in a live style guide

· Ability to complete documentation on how to use components in the style guide

· Ability to diagnose UI bugs in the working application and fix them in the web application

· Completes code reviews with other developers

· Stays abreast of new trends and produces proof of concepts to show design team what is possible.

· Travel is estimated to be below 5%

· Experience working in an agile environment, updating tasks in scrums, meeting commitments provided to different agile teams

· Participate in collaborative review of functional and technical requirements.

Educational and Experience Requirements

· BS/MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field of study. 5+ years of required experience coding.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

· Ideal team player personality: Candidate must be Humble, Hungry, and Smart.

· Ability to work well with both technical and non-technical team members in both small and large settings.

· Willingness to learn (from teammates and professional sources) as well as readily share knowledge

· 5+ years in front end development particularly HTML5, CSS, SCSS, and JavaScript

· Basic understanding of design sensibilities focusing on ensuring outstanding usability and aesthetics characteristics.

· Experience with Web Application development and Responsive Design Framework.

· Experience with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, AngularJS, etc.

· Familiarity with MVC, MVVM and Single Page Application.

· Strong organizational, writing, and verbal skills. Able to attend meetings, take notes, and ensure tasks are completed

· Ability to prioritize work load and consistently meet deadlines.

· QA experience - particularly ability to cross browser test

· Code development management experience (using Git(hub) and pull requests)

· Style Guide creation and update experience (particularly with Handlebars and JSON)

· Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Online (VSO) ideally (or other similar development work tracking such as Jira or ScrumWorks)

Additional Desired Qualifications

· Angular 2 experience

· Flexbox experience

· Power BI, QlikView, Tableau, etc. data visualization coding experience

· Experience with Fractal.build documentation

· Usability testing experience or certifications

· Experience developing for touch and gesture UIs

· QA certifications

· Familiarity with Slack, Trello,

· Experience working with Team to build complex enterprise applications.

· Familiarization of Agile methodologies is a plus particularly SAFe.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.