Lead Front End Developer - Contract to Hire

Mindlance is a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers in IT, financial services, engineering, semiconductor, clinical and pharmaceutical domains. You can learn more about us at www.mindlance.com.

Position Details:

Title: Lead Front End Developer

Location: Frisco, TX 75034

Duration : 03 – 06 Months Contract to Hire

· This role reports to the Director of Experience Design.

· Candidates must be able to provide examples of work (ideally showing designs referenced, code produced, and accessible examples)

· Develops user interface design prototypes to serve as a guide for system/program development.

· Build high-fidelity prototypes with working HTML/CSS/JavaScript directly from a UX/UI static and dynamic prototype designs from designers

· Build and maintain HTML and CSS for different components and styles in a live style guide

· Ability to complete documentation on how to use components in the style guide

· Ability to diagnose UI bugs in the working application and fix them in the web application

· Completes code reviews with other developers

· Stays abreast of new trends and produces proof of concepts to show design team what is possible.

· Travel is estimated to be below 5%

· Experience working in an agile environment, updating tasks in scrums, meeting commitments provided to different agile teams

· Participate in collaborative review of functional and technical requirements.

Educational and Experience Requirements

· BS/MS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field of study. 5+ years of required experience coding.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

· Ideal team player personality: Candidate must be Humble, Hungry, and Smart.

· Ability to work well with both technical and non-technical team members in both small and large settings.

· Willingness to learn (from teammates and professional sources) as well as readily share knowledge

· 5+ years in front end development particularly HTML5, CSS, SCSS, and JavaScript

· Basic understanding of design sensibilities focusing on ensuring outstanding usability and aesthetics characteristics.

· Experience with Web Application development and Responsive Design Framework.

· Experience with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, AngularJS, etc.

· Familiarity with MVC, MVVM and Single Page Application.

· Strong organizational, writing, and verbal skills. Able to attend meetings, take notes, and ensure tasks are completed

· Ability to prioritize work load and consistently meet deadlines.

· QA experience - particularly ability to cross browser test

· Code development management experience (using Git(hub) and pull requests)

· Style Guide creation and update experience (particularly with Handlebars and JSON)

· Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Online (VSO) ideally (or other similar development work tracking such as Jira or ScrumWorks)

Additional Desired Qualifications

· Angular 2 experience

· Flexbox experience

· Power BI, QlikView, Tableau, etc. data visualization coding experience

· Experience with Fractal.build documentation

· Usability testing experience or certifications

· Experience developing for touch and gesture UIs

· QA certifications

· Familiarity with Slack, Trello,

· Experience working with Team to build complex enterprise applications.

· Familiarization of Agile methodologies is a plus particularly SAFe.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.