Frontend Developer

Frontend Developer

Contract

Chicago, IL (Local Hybrid)

Contractors Role: As a Front End Engineer in our Design System team, contractor will side by side with design and product teams to build frontend experiences. They work will elevate our digital experiences through compelling prototypes, patterns, and components that empower our partners and clients. A detail-oriented systems thinker, they can see tough challenges from multiple perspectives and uncover the technical solutions to solve design and business needs.

Qualifications:

- A minimum of two years of front-end UI development experience, writing semantic HTML, CSS, ES6 JavaScript and Typescript

- Experience working on Typescript with React framework

- Experience in writing unit test and Test Driven Development

- Experience with debugging and browser performance optimization

- Experience using GIT and source control workflows with multiple contributors

- Practical understanding of accessibility standards and WCAG 2.1 compliance

- Attention to detail, having a sense of design and layout

- Experience with Node, Webpack, and NPM libraries

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (the ability to effectively sell an idea).

- Ability to manage time wisely given competing priorities, meet agreed upon deadlines, and be accountable for work.

- Experience in working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, including waterfall and (more importantly) agile methodologies.

- Work portfolio (applications, code samples) that demonstrates systematic and creative development thinking as well as a deep understanding of UI development best practices.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

- Develops reusable/configurable components in React and Typescript

- Contributes back to our design system in the form of components, documentation, best practices, and supports.

- Exhibits deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/Typescript to help support implementation team with best practices

- Contributes to an open culture that enables development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism.

- Manages expectations and deliver effective, efficient, and thoughtful technical solutions.

- Collaborates and communicate professionally with designers, product owners and architects to understand technical needs and user requirements while effectively communicating the complexity, intent, and specifications of development tasks

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