Front End Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Overview

Responsibilities

• Works with fellow engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software.
• Collaborates with stakeholders (technical and non-technical) to understand their needs, clarify possible options, make technical recommendations, and architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems.
• Works in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs.
• Creates tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows.
• Acts as a technical leader in the development of high-quality, well-tested, documented, CI/CD-enabled, and high-performance software solutions.
• Writes and reviews technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, and performs code reviews.
• Works closely with product designers, product managers, and engineers to implement solutions for end-user and business needs.
• Supports production systems and investigates issues when they occur.
• Upholds and continuously improves the team’s coding standards and development workflows.
• Pursues personal growth by maintaining an awareness of the state of technology, engineering techniques, and best practices.
• Contributes to and advances “best practices” within the team and our organization.
• Supports project planning, including requirements gathering, design, scoping, and estimates for upcoming work.
• Manages your own time and works well both independently and as part of a team.
• Provides exemplary peer reviews, enabling continuous learning and improvement opportunities for other team members.
• Participates in daily standups and other agile (Scrum or Kanban) routines.
• Performs related work as required.

Minimum Entrance Qualifications

• At least five (5) years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium- to large-scale web applications on Cloud Platforms.
• At least five (5) years of hands-on professional work experience building web applications and systems using modern JavaScript with React.
• Current and/or prior experience developing API endpoints.
• Experience with AWS and SQL databases.
• Experience mapping and driving systemic improvements within complex service environments.
• Understanding of OWASP and other secure development methodologies.
• Experience in languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Node.
• Experience with tools such as Fleet, SASS, Docker, Behat, GitHub, TravisCI, Acquia Hosting, and AWS Lambda.
• Experience with Drupal 9 is a plus.
• Understanding of web and mobile user interface design best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and test semantic, accessible web applications.
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code.
• Equal parts systems thinker and advocate for users.
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and focus on detail as required by the job.

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