Lead Front End Developer

Position summary:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Lead Front End Developer. The operations team owns the customer-facing web app. You'll turn Figma designs into fast, accessible screens and keep them that way. The company is based in Strasbourg, France. The team is spread across multiple countries. We engage team members in Bangladesh as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Your responsibilities:

• Add analytics events and help product read the results
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years building production web applications
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts

Bonus points:

• Some Node.js backend work

Perks and benefits:

Salary range: $2,450 - $2,700 monthly

• Long-term engagement
• Paid in USD

About the company:

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Roussel Systems EURL.