Front End Developers Jobs

As a Front End Software Engineer, you will join a highly functioning team comprised of a combination of full time and part-time professionals across the globe. If you can demonstrate success then you will have a chance to work across multiple products of increasing power and complexity.

If you are interested in part-time contract work then you may work remotely as long as there is significant overlap of your working time with the Central Time Zone in the United States. If you’re interested in joining us on a full time basis then this is an on-site position based at our office in Wichita, Kan. You must be authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Participate fully in code reviews and work with internal designers, developers and QA to ensure quality code.
• Write, test, maintain and document re-usable code.
• As part of a team, deliver complete frontend sites and products.
• Build responsive design, handle page navigation and turn mock-ups into web pages quickly and according to spec.
• Parse APIs (JSON) into front-end interfaces using Angular 2, HTML & CSS (LESS).
• Collaborate daily with other frontend developers, backend developers, and our data team across the full software development lifecycle.

Technical Skill and Experience Requirements:

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithm design, and complexity analysis
• Software development fundamentals, including testing, troubleshooting and using version control (we use GitHub).
• Familiar with and/or have experience with Agile development under the SCRUM methodology.
• Demonstrated achievement in front-end development technologies using JavaScript frameworks (we use Angular 2+), HTML5, CSS3 and advanced JavaScript (portfolio required).
• Team player with excellent communication skills.
• 5+ years of professional development experience.
• Ability to create component-based reusable and testable modules and pages.
• Experience using data interchange formats, such as JSON or XML.

Nice to Have Skills and Experience:

• Eye for detail.
• Understanding of one or more of these: databases, platforms, APIs, caching layers, proxies, or other web services used in the system.
• Ability to write unit tests using BDD or TDD.
• Background in Angular (1 or 2), Meteor.js, Bootstrap, Webpack, Node or Gulp.
• Experience building responsive web sites.

Keys to Success

• Enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top.
• Willingness to work as part of a team and embrace best practices, like version control, code reviews, documentation and workflow management tools.
• Genuinely excited about technology, have a strong interest in learning & using the latest tools, and constantly want to learn new things.
• Team player willing to take direction, yet with the initiative to identify and act on matters without waiting for direction. This one is really important.
• Highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where opportunities are many times of your own making.
• Demonstrated ability to brutally prioritize. Be prepared to give examples of critically important projects you didn’t get done in favor of even more important projects. What criteria did you use to make your decision?
• Strong communication skills, both with technical and nontechnical audiences.