Senior Front-End Developer

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Museum of Modern Art is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Front-End Developer to join our engineering team. This critical role is responsible for owning the technical front-end design system architecture and implementation ensuring a consistent high-quality and performant user experience across all digital products.

Responsibilities:

Serves as the technical owner of the front-end codebase architecture and deployment strategy for various internal and public-facing applications.
Designs develops and maintains a robust reusable component library and front-end design system enforcing standards for accessibility (WCAG) performance and responsive design across all devices.
Drives the adoption and proficiency of our core front-end stack: Tailwind CSS Stimulus and Ruby on Rails. This includes selecting appropriate libraries and patterns for complex user interfaces without relying on heavier frameworks.
Delivers well-tested optimized and high-performance code focusing on minimal JavaScript payloads and efficient CSS rendering.
Works closely with Product and Design to translate visual concepts into highly accurate functional and maintainable code.
Acts as a front-end Subject Matter Expert (SME) conducting peer code reviews setting coding standards and mentoring other developers on best practices in modern lightweight front-end development.
Troubleshoots and resolves complex performance rendering and architectural issues in production environments.
Maintains and improves existing front-end systems and integrations.
Works with external vendors as needed to integrate or build out new front-end functionality.
Performs any other duties reasonably related to the functions described above.

Requirements:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of 5five years of professional software development experience with at least 3 three years focused on Senior Front-End development and architecture.
Expert-level proficiency with JavaScript (ES6) HTML5 and CSS3.
Deep experience with Ruby on Rails and integrating modern front-end tools into the Rails ecosystem.
Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing interfaces using Tailwind CSS.
Proven expertise with Stimulus (or a similar lightweight convention-based framework) for interactivity.
Strong understanding of responsive design performance optimization (Lighthouse/Web Vitals) and web accessibility standards (WCAG).
Experience with Agile development pair programming and test-driven development (TDD) including unit and end-to-end testing of UI components.
Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong problem-solving analytical and organizational skills.
Exceptional written and oral communication skills to effectively articulate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Reports to:Associate Director of Enterprise Applications

Salary Range: Minimum of $140000 to a maximum of $160000 per annum

Application instructions: To apply please visit MoMA Jobs. Applicants should submit a resume and a statement of interest.

Equal Employment Opportunity has been and will continue to be a fundamental principle at the Museum where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race color religion sex age national origin disability pregnancy genetic information military or veteran status sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression marital and civil partnership/union status alienage or citizenship status creed genetic predisposition or carrier status unemployment status familial status domestic violence sexual violence or stalking victim status caregiver status arrest or conviction record to the extent required by applicable law credit history or any other protected category as established by applicable law including the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL).

Required Experience:

Senior IC