Senior Software User Interface Developer

Frontline Education

(Chicago, Illinois)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About Frontline Education

Frontline Education is an integrated insights partner serving more than 9,500 K-12 organizations and millions of educators, administrators and support personnel in their efforts to develop the next generation of learners.

Summary

Frontline Education is seeking a Senior Software UI Developer to design, build, test, deploy and support elegant, scalable and reliable software solutions for our customers. This is a fast-paced and exciting role that provides opportunities to work on a wide array of projects.

Responsibilities

Collaborating within and across cross-functional, agile teams to deliver software that achieves business objectives using a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) model.
Contributing to and evangelizing Frontline Education engineering standards and practices.
Mentoring more junior developers and peers.

Ideal Candidate

**Personal Attributes**

* A ‘One Team’ mindset in which success is only achieved through the success of others 
* A Systems Thinking approach that ensures solutions solve the problem at hand within the construct of a larger platform 
* An entrepreneurial spirit: willing to try new ideas, learn fast, and continuously improve 
* A consultative approach to evangelizing concepts and teaching others to fish
 
**Qualifications, Key Skills and Competencies**

* Bachelor’s Degree in Relevant Field and/or 10+years’ experience 
* Expertise in web-based applications and web architecture 
* SaaS experience is preferred 
* Working experience with Agile methodologies 
* Strong demonstrable experience developing component based, front-end web, mobile and responsive solutions utilizing:

*      JavaScript 
  *             Experience with one or more JavaScript libraries is preferred 
  *             Experience with typical JavaScript build processes; gulp/grunt/WebPack 
  *             Experience with one or more unit testing frameworks is preferred 
 
*    HTML5 
  
  *         Experience with 508/c or WAI standards for accessible websites

*       CSS3

*         Experience with one or more CSS extensions or authoring frameworks such as Less, Sass, Stylus, etc. is preferred 
  * Experience with responsive web design frameworks and techniques is preferred 
  * Able to provide expert-level guidance on web standards, usability best practices, accessibility guidelines, and UI trends

Personal Attributes

A ‘One Team’ mindset in which success is only achieved through the success of others
A Systems Thinking approach that ensures solutions solve the problem at hand within the construct of a larger platform
An entrepreneurial spirit: willing to try new ideas, learn fast, and continuously improve
A consultative approach to evangelizing concepts and teaching others to fish

Qualifications, Key Skills and Competencies

Bachelor’s Degree in Relevant Field and/or 10+years’ experience
Expertise in web-based applications and web architecture
SaaS experience is preferred
Working experience with Agile methodologies
Strong demonstrable experience developing component based, front-end web, mobile and responsive solutions utilizing:
JavaScript
- Experience with one or more JavaScript libraries is preferred
- Experience with typical JavaScript build processes; gulp/grunt/WebPack
- Experience with one or more unit testing frameworks is preferred
HTML5
- Experience with 508/c or WAI standards for accessible websites
CSS3
- Experience with one or more CSS extensions or authoring frameworks such as Less, Sass, Stylus, etc. is preferred
- Experience with responsive web design frameworks and techniques is preferred
- Able to provide expert-level guidance on web standards, usability best practices, accessibility guidelines, and UI trends