BU57P2 UI Developer

Division and Unit Overview

The mission of the ACS Communications Division is to provide news and ACS information and to communicate the vital role of chemical professionals and the chemical sciences in solving critical global challenges and improving everyday life.TheDigitalProduct & ExperienceTeam serves our constituents by enhancing user and customer interactions and delivering value across all digital channels in the world of chemistry.

Position Summary

TheDPXTeam isseekinganenergetic and skilled UI Developer with a strong front-end development background and a passion for building accessible responsive and user-centered digital experiences. This role will focus on translating UX/UI designs business requirements design system standards and user insights into high-quality front-end interfaces. The ideal candidate has strong experience with HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript responsive web development accessibility and modern front-end best practices. They should be comfortable collaborating with designers UX researchers content strategists product managers business stakeholders and technology teams to deliver polished digital products.

The UI Developer will play a key role in supporting and related digital products by building reusable UI components improving front-end quality supporting design system adoption and ensuring digital experiences are consistent accessible performant and aligned with ACS brand standards.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop responsive accessible and high-quality front-end interfaces using HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript and modern web standards.
• Translate wireframes high-fidelity designs prototypes and design system documentation into production-ready UI.
• Collaborateclosely with UX/UI designers UX researchers content strategists product managers and backend AEM developers to deliver user-centered digital experiences.
• Buildmaintain and improve reusable AEM UI components templates and front-end patterns.
• Support and contribute to the organizations design system by ensuring consistency between design assets and front-end implementation.
• Ensure web experiences meet accessibility standards including WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 requirements.
• Apply responsive mobile-first cross-browser performance SEO and progressive enhancement best practices.
• Conduct front-end QA to ensure visual accuracy usability accessibility performance and consistency with approved designs including troubleshootingUI issues across browsers devices CMS templates/components.
• Participate in sprint planning design reviews backlog refinement critiques and technical discussions.
• Document front-end patterns CMScomponentusage implementation notes and UI guidance for internal teams.
• Stay current with front-end development trends CMS best practices accessibility standards and AI-assisted development tools.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Degree in computer science web development digital media interaction design human-computer interaction or equivalent professional experience.
• 4 years of experience in front-end development UI development or related web development roles.
• Strongproficiencyin HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript and modern front-end development practices.
• Strong understanding of responsive design mobile-first development cross-browser compatibility and progressive enhancement.
• Experience developing within enterprise CMS and commerce platforms especially Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Magento Commerce WordPress or similar systems.
• Experience translating Figma Adobe XD or similar design files intoaccuratefront-end implementation.
• Experience working with design systemscomponentlibraries reusable UI patterns or shared front-end frameworks.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards including WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508.
• Familiarity with APIs JSON design tokens headless CMS concepts and component-based architecture.
• Experience with CSS architecture design tokens reusable styles and scalable front-end patterns.
• Experience with front-end build tools and workflows such asNPM Vite Webpack or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum Kanban).
• Detail-oriented with strong interpersonal skills and teamwork
• A growth mindset and curiosity for improving user experience front-end quality development workflowsandalways looking to improve things and new innovations.
• A strong portfolioshowcasingyour development workprocessand final outcomes including but not limited to wireframes interactive prototypesandopen-source project contributions.

Highly preferred

• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot Cursor ChatGPT Claude or similar tools to improve development speed code quality prototyping testing or documentation.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks or libraries such as React Vue Angular or Web Components.
• Experience with performance optimization Core Web Vitals SEO-friendly front-end implementation and semantic HTML.
• Familiarity with analytics or behavioral insight platforms such as Adobe Analytics Google AnalyticsContentSquare or similar tools.

Pleasesubmita resume cover letter and an exemplary portfolio of past professional work oropen-sourcecontributions or personal projects isrequired.

This role is based in our Washington DC office. A reasonable rate of compensation for this position is$95000-$115000per year.ACS employees work a hybrid schedule consisting of working onsite two days per work week as decided by functional area. The balance of the week is open to working remotely though employees are always welcome onsite each day if they choose.

ACS currently provides the following benefits for this position: paid vacation leave paid sick leave paid holidays health insurance flexible spending account or health care savings account dental insurance life insurance vision insurance retirement benefits short- and long-term disability and 4-week work from anywhere; each benefit is subject to the terms of the applicable program. Additional benefits may apply based on skills experience and location.

Any actual offer of employment reflecting the total compensation package and benefits will be made in the sole discretion of ACS. ACS reserves the right to amend or modify its employment benefits and compensation structure at any time.

Required Experience:

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