Front End Engineer

About us

Hearst Newspapers is looking for a talented front-end engineer to help us. Lead engineers play a crucial role on our engineering team, helping overseer the architecture and overall implementation plans for all of our user facing applications.

Lead engineers collaborate in an agile software development environment with other members of our team including engineers, QA, designers, as well as product managers and project managers. They have a deep impact in our UI development processes by establishing and documenting development standards and common components for common usage across all of our web applications.

Responsibilities

We are looking for someone with a solid technical background and leadership skills, able to work in a fast-paced environment, building software that scales.

As lead engineer, you provide development leadership within an agile team. As someone with a strong software development experience, you guide teams into building the highest quality solutions to business problems.

You’ll then work with engineers by sharing your knowledge based upon your cooperation with other departments. You will help us consistently deliver on ongoing projects.

Team mentorship

• Facilitate project estimates
• Project coding and platform development
• Understand front end development process
• Keep up to date on the latest technologies
• Mitigate project issues Team code reviews

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or 7+ years front end development
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work well in a team, and technical leadership experience
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive. We want a self-starter
• Proficient working in an agile software development environment
• Proficient in testing the front-end code for supported browsers and devices
• Proficient in JavaScript and Typescript
• Proficient in HTML / CSS
• Production experience with Node.js and React

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience working with GraphQL
2. Production experience with a NoSQL database such as MongoDB/ DocumentDB or AWS DynamoDB
3. Familiar with technologies such as PHP, MySQL, and the Unix command line
4. Production experience with a functional programming pattern or language
5. Production experience in incorporating reliable unit and end-to-end testing
6. Strong portfolio of work showing experience developing standards- compliant front-end code for product and/or marketing websites, web applications, and/or mobile experiences

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