The Front-End Technology Lead (FETL) is responsible for designing and writing code, performing code reviews, developing technical documentation and becomes a key contributor in their team and project. A Front-End Technology Lead acts as a technical leader in projects, ensuring that the team maintains high levels of performance, and builds and strengthens the relationship with the client.

The FETL will work closely with clients, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts and end users.

You will: 

• Will be supporting presentations to clients regarding technical perspectives.
• Ensures to implement, configure, and troubleshoot with front-end helpers such as Babel, Webpack, Yeoman, Gulp or Node.js as a subject matter expert in front-end technology.
• Code reviewing, mentoring and enforces coding guidelines and best practices for more Junior teammates.
• Helps coordinate the team’s technical communication with other groups such as Creative, Business and Management
• When acting as the technical leader, owns the technical architecture and design of the web solution and oversees the front-end development activities.
• Gathers new user and business requirements, maps them to appropriate technical solutions and estimates the associated development tasks.
• Ensures concise and clear documentation is maintained by all peers for the projects as dictated by each Capability’s guidelines and best practices.
• Owns software release activities, including but not limited to reviewing code changes, client demos, QA hand-offs, and presenting solutions and justifications for tasks
• Debugs or troubleshoots complex or critical issues that cannot be handled by junior positions, and provides root cause analysis
• Establishes project scaffolding and associated automation tools for the project
• Creates training programs for technologies within fields of expertise
• Actively participates in Capability activities and initiatives
• Responsible to setup regular one-on-one meetings to provide coaching, feedback, career development, and status reporting

You have:

• Advanced English Proficiency (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation)
• At least 5 years of experience working exclusively with Front-End technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
• Proven experience developing applications with React JS. (Experience with Next JS and Graph QL are also highly desired)
• Work experience with cross-browser and cross-device compatibility
• Work experience with Responsive development
• Expert knowledge of recent development patterns and practices (Mobile First, MVC, Object Oriented development)
• Expert knowledge on integrating front-end solutions with APIs and web services
• Proficiency with popular JavaScript frameworks and cross-browser compatibility
• Work experience configuring, using, and troubleshooting tools such as process automation & scripting (eg. Webpack or Gulp) and pre-process tools (eg. SASS, LESS)
• Minimum of 2 years of proven track record as a technical team leader, communication, teamwork and leadership skills experience required.
• Capable of configuring automation tools such as Webpack or Gulp and including common project tasks such as: pre-processing, minification, code obfuscation, etc.
• Knowledge of design patterns (e.g., model-view-controller, observer, object oriented, etc.) and working with several mainstream libraries and frameworks (jQuery, Angular, VueJS, or any other)
• Proficiency with data transfer formats and protocols popular in web applications (eg. JSON, XML, HTTP)
• Capable of designing and choosing a quality assurance process for the project including guidelines for unit tests, load testing, performance testing
• Capable of writing code compliant with modern accessibility (eg. ARIA, WCAG, Microformats, ADA, RDF) and SEO guidelines and best practices
• Capable of working with new technologies and building proof of concept prototypes.
• Capable of troubleshooting, debugging and doing root cause analysis of web platform issues
• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline; or equivalent strong experience as Software Development Lead in exact areas of expertise required for CM (Digital Agencies projects, Web development projects, SCRUM/Agile software projects).

What We Offer:

• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• End-of-year closure days (not deducted form vacation balance)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• And more…

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.  If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

The ask stems from our want to:

• Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
• Improve collaboration and team relationships.
• Increase employee engagement

This working model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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