Senior Frontend Engineer

Our mission is to connect people to their passions. Our four online stores—Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, MotoSport and, SteepandCheap—aim to supply our customers with the gear, knowledge, and inspiration necessary to get out there and chase down life’s greatest moments. We do this by providing the biggest and best assortment of premium outdoor products, superior shopping experience, personalized Gearhead expertise, lightning-fast and accurate fulfillment, and inspirational, informative, and community-centered content.

Backcountry is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Front End Engineer to join our team. As our Senior Front End Engineer, you will enjoy working across the software stack to design, develop, and deploy engaging experiences for the web. You are empowered by CSC IQ to get to your next career stage!

What you'll be doing:

• Lead our front-end programming. Ensure high standards are maintained through regular peer code reviews
• Writing well designed, testable, readable and scalable code
• Assisting in the development of new features, enhancements of existing features
• Review code with peers to provide and get feedback on implemented solution
• Contribute to documentation where necessary
• Write and maintain unit and automated tests
• Coordinate and work closely with team members and other engineering teams
• Keep up with the latest web technologies, patterns and design.

What you bring to this role:

• 5+ years of experience building robust, complex, and accessible user interfaces and applications
• Strong experience using React, JavaScript ES6/TypeScript
• Familiar with AWS
• Strong understanding of web fundamentals
• Strong Analytical, problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• A commitment to unit and automated testing of UI components and interaction flows
• Bonus: UX design, functional programming, full-stack experience

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