Frontend Developer

Job Title: Software Developer

Location: Onsite in Urbandale

Position: Highly likely to extend

Visa Sponsorship: Not available

Role Overview: This role focuses on front-end development, supporting a design system to ensure a consistent user experience across a large digital product. Ideal candidates will have experience in a design system/component library environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop reusable components for a shared product design system.
• Analyze requirements from 10-20 product development teams to create a common, intuitive component API.
• Collaborate with product managers and UX designers to meet business and user needs.
• Follow industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
• Test components across browsers and devices.
• Maintain the component library and manage contributions from other teams.

Required Skills:

• Deep experience in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, React JS, and Node JS.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript foundations.
• Proficiency in NodeJS for front-end development.
• Functional React components and hooks.
• Strong HTML and CSS skills, understanding their interaction with React.
• Responsive Web Design.
• Version Control (Git).
• Basic understanding of TypeScript.

Bonus Skills:

• Cypress component testing and Visual Regression Testing.
• CSS Preprocessors (SASS or LESS) and CSS-in-JS tools (Emotion, Styled Components).
• Material UI.
• Engineering practices like TDD, Software Automation, CI/CD.
• Agile and XP methodologies.
• Experience in a design system/component library team or internal tools team.

Major Duties:

• Develop, code, configure, and test programs and systems.
• Implement enhancement design solutions to improve software applications.
• Analyze assignments and determine software specifications.
• Execute necessary documentation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure features meet business needs.
• Follow agile software design methodology.

Education:

• Degree in Engineering/Technology or Information Technology discipline, or equivalent experience (4 years or equivalent).

Work Experience:

• 1-3 years in programming/software development.
• 1-3 years in software development processes.
• 1-3 years participating in Agile Development.
• 1-3 years working in an Agile Environment.