Lead Front End Developer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Dublin, County Dublin and two nearshore delivery centres. Founded in 1991, we now have 7,100 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

THE ROLE:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Lead Front End Developer. The Onboarding team owns the customer-facing web app. You'll turn Figma designs into fast, accessible screens and keep them that way. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. We are headquartered in Dublin and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years building production web applications
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• Git and a pull request based workflow
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts

PREFERRED:

• Some Node.js backend work
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts

PERKS AND BENEFITS:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Long-term engagement
• Annual rate review

Please submit your CV in English.

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Steelspan DAC.