Senior Front End Developer (3 months contract)

Senior Front End Developer

At Horizontal Digital we hold ourselves to one key belief: Youre only as good as your worst customer experience. This manta is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites apps portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy data design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lock Arms

We forge relationships that make our impact 1000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

Show Hustle

Were not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead we anticipate opportunities collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change

From new technologies to workplace philosophies we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate whats next.

Elevate empathy

We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle

We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger more inspiring ideas.

But enough about us. Lets talk about you.

As a Senior Front End Developer (Single Page Applications) on Horizontals development team you will collaborate with cross-functional teams on multiple accounts focusing on delivering high quality technical solutions in the single page application space in addition to helping set a broader vision and path forward for the continued adoption of modern development practices across teams. You will execute high-quality technical solutions on time and on budget using modern development methods. You will help drive innovative and effective user experience through technology and evangelize common standards and best practices across the front-end team.

What youll do:

• Collaborate with Horizontal Digital and/or client and project management teams tech leads architects developers and designers on the implementation and development of enterprise Nextjs and React solutions including data display information architecture and 3rd party platform integrations

• Implement platform specific solutions and SDKs involving Nextjs and React specifically Sitecore Drupal and potentially other platforms (like Contentful and Vercel)

• Implement project specifications using a mix of Nextjs and React core functionality community modules and custom developed modules that adhere to Nextjs and React community coding standards

• Identify new technologies frameworks and processes that enhance our ability to deliver cutting edge solutions to our customers

What you bring:

• Three or more years of experience

• Thorough understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements Design Development Testing) and exposure to Agile or iterative SDLCs

• Expertise in the back end of the front end specifically application and business logic API and service integration Consuming user interface code and working with user interface developers

• Expertise in JavaScript React (or other similar libraries/frameworks) Node and front-end application development

• Expertise with front end tooling and package management (Webpack npm Gulp etc)

• Competent in other front-end technologies like HTML and CSS

• Competence in semantic and accessible applications and presentation

• Experience working with WCAG 2.x AA guidelines and implementation

• Experience with version control tools (Git) and industry standard branching and merging practices

• Education B.S. or BA or work experience equivalent

Who you are:

• You have a desire and passion to work in the marketing technology industry

• You are a critical thinker and problem solver with an obvious attention to detail and organization

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to calmly and rationally collaborate with technical and non-technical peers

• You are resourceful and enjoy learning new things

Required Experience:

Senior IC