Senior Front End Developer

Crate and Barrel is an industry-leading home furnishings specialty retailer, known for its exclusive designs, excellent value and superb customer service. In addition to a thriving direct marketing division that services more than 90 countries, the company operates stores throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as international franchise locations in the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Mexico, Turkey, Russia and the Philippines.

We are seeking a Senior Front End Developer to join our team in developing the next generation of our eCommerce architecture. This position is located at our Northbrook, Illinois corporate offices. As a Crate and Barrel Senior Front End Developer, you will join an innovative eCommerce team responsible for delivering solutions built for sustainability and performance. You will collaborate closely with product managers, testers and other software engineers to design, test, code, deliver and maintain software modules within an Agile Scrum environment.

• Design, develop, and implement solutions using HTML, CSS, and Javascript as your tools and ASP.NET (MVC) as your environment.
• Conceive and build responsive and adaptive solutions for website applications.
• Work on an Agile team to develop, test, deploy, and maintain, while collaborating with team members on product backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, review, and retrospective.
• Participate in technical design meetings with other developers and assist in definition of front end web architecture.
• Work with product team and stakeholders to understand and communicate progress.
• Update, maintain and adhere to pattern-libraries, style guides, and site documentation.
• Be an active contributor to front-end development best practices.

• You have been building websites using HTML/CSS/Javascript for 3+ years, and you can show it.
• You can communicate to people in product management, design, user experience, and QA, and they will understand you.
• You have excellent knowledge of CSS and Javascript coding best practices.
• You can build responsive, cross-browser, highly-performant, and accessible applications.
• You can work with jQuery right away. You have some experience and knowledge of another script framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, node.js).
• You have worked with Twitter Bootstrap or Foundation or the like. You know about CSS preprocessors (LESS or SASS).
• Maybe you’ve worked with C#, ASP.NET MVC, the .NET Framework, and VisualStudio.
• You have basic knowledge of SQL language.
• Bachelor’s degreein Computer Science, Graphic Design, or Visual Communication desired but not required.
• You have good reading, written and verbal language skills (English).
• Work location can flex to our Chicago location occasionally subject to the needs of the business.