Description:
Our Front-End Engineers are responsible for designing and developing engaging user experiences for our new product release. Working daily with the Product, Development, and QA teams, our engineers own, define and implement our user experience. This implementation is a key part of the role. Additionally, our engineers are accountable for the delivery, quality, and success of the user experience for our product throughout the entire lifecycle, including optimization and innovation with new features. This role will be key in building our user experience. We are looking for someone with demonstrated success in building front-end pages for successful SaaS business applications.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in our Agile system of project planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, and release planning
- Present your design methods, explorations, and trade-off rationale along with a recommendation to team partners, business stakeholders and UX leadership
- Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation
- Conduct User research and usability testing
- Throughout the product development process, you are collaborative, creative, and detail-oriented. You can demonstrate previous experience in:
- Creating an amazing user experience (not just designing it but implementing it too)
- Ensuring the product requirements are fulfilled
- Maintaining Conexiom’s standards in code quality, security, and extensibility
- Working within the context of the broader product direction and ensuring UX consistency across the product portfolio
- Mentor and lead other front-end engineers to drive best software practices and quality
Qualifications:
- A strong portfolio comprised of projects which demonstrate strategic, creative, and user centered design solutions to complex software problems
- Able to test design ideas using CSS and JavaScript, or prototyping software, as a way of building interactive proofs of concept
- Familiarity with agile, iterative design processes
- 5 to 8 years of experience with software design best practices
- Must be organized, able to work independently, and able to quickly change focus between different projects
- Strong experience with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, React, Redux, i18n, Sass, Material UI, TypeScript and principles of responsive design, cross-browser, and web app design – bonus marks if you know functional programming
- Proponent and practitioner of TDD, and experience with Jest and React testing libraries
- Good understanding of server-side languages (e.g. C#, ASP.NET, Python, etc.)
- Good understanding of version control for software (e.g. Git, SVN)
- Good understanding of APIs and databases
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science or Engineering