Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Material Bank is a global material marketplace serving the architecture and design industry through a B2B commerce platform. The Lead Front End Engineer will design, build, and deliver features for the new MB3 platform, develop its front-end architecture, and collaborate with product, design, QA, and backend engineering teams. The role also owns front-end performance, accessibility, SEO, analytics, monitoring, testing, and frontend modernization.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the front-end architecture for a brand-new platform, ensuring it aligns with the overall technical vision and business goals
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design and QA teams to translate wireframes and design mockups into interactive and visually appealing user interfaces and build “the right things the right way”
- Optimize UI components and application code for performance, scalability, and responsiveness, ensuring a smooth user experience even during high traffic periods. Be very aware of Accessibility, UX, and responsive design
- Create and maintain documentation for UI components, coding standards, and best practices to facilitate collaboration among team members
- Help the team to rewrite, refactor, and decouple frontend from a CommerceTools application to a NextJS app & build tests using playwright
- Help build the strategy, select the right tools, and implement SEO, site analytics, A/B testing, monitoring, etc
Skills
- Master's degree in computer science
- 5+ Strong expertise in React and related libraries, with the ability to design and develop complex user interfaces using React components
- Proficiency in HTML, REACT and CSS, including knowledge of CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS
- Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces
- Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions to ensure consistent performance across different web browsers
- Create intuitive and responsive User Interfaces (UI) that provide an exceptional user experience, leveraging your expertise in front-end technologies
- Able to maintain high-performance service requirement
- Prior experience building e-commerce customer portals
- High proficiency at problem-solving with focus on speed of delivery, being a team player, and being into details
- Knowledge of CommerceTools is a plus
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Sick Days
- Paid National Holidays
- Employer contributions to medical, dental, vision, and short-term/long-term disability plans
- Employee assistance program
- 401(k) eligible after your first 90 days of employment
- Career growth support to help you take your career to the next level
- Hybrid working model, with the option for remote, in-person, or a combination of both, as determined by department leaders
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