Lead Front End Engineer

About us

At OPENLANE we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful.

• We’re a technology company building the world’s most advanced—and uncomplicated—digital marketplace for used vehicles.
• We’re a data company helping customers buy and sell smarter with clear, actionable insights they can understand and use.
• And we’re an innovation company accelerating the future of wholesale remarketing through curiosity, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Front End Engineer with experience in frontend design and development. You will be part of the High Tech Locksmiths (HTL) (an OPENLANE Brand) Development team responsible for our Web Portal and SPA mobile optimized application. You will be involved in design, implementation, unit tests, mentoring and documentation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in popular front end frameworks, Lambdas, Node.js and API development. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 10 years frontend experience.

Requirements

• 10+ years of front end development: expert with CSS, TypeScript/JavaScript, DOM, HTML
• Expert-level experience with one or more of the following frameworks: React/Vue.js/Angular/Svelte
• Experienced with front end tools: such as Vite, Flowbite, Bootstrap, jQuery, Zod, Cypress, eslint, Pinia, etc.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or relevant experience
• SOLID principles, Data Structures, Design Patterns
• Strong Object-oriented experience: DI, Patterns, Inheritance, Interfaces
• Basic understanding of Domain-driven Design concepts
• Some backend experience: Node, Python, PHP, RDBMs.
• Proven track record of visually aesthetic and functional front end applications.
• Containers: mostly docker development environments

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