Senior Front End Engineer

Full-time Kansas City, MO
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We have an exciting client who is expanding their team and looking to hire an additional Front End Engineer.  This client has a dev first culture and embraces technology enthusiasts who want to work in an environment where open opinions and suggestions are expected while also allowing for autonomy.  The team is a curated group of highly skilled engineers who collaborate and work together toward common goals.  


Some perks
Remote work as needed and a great office environment
Generous vacation 
Results focused management and flexible schedules
Annual Developer Retreats
Medical, Vision, Dental
401K

Responsibilities

Working primarily with JavaScript (React)
Successful candidate will be extremely self-motivated, self-organizing, and exhibit a bias to action. 
Self-sufficiency goes hand-in-hand with the level of autonomy  

Responsibilities Include: 
● Create and maintain reusable front end code 
● Take ownership of development projects and see them through to timely completion 
● Work with team to collaborate on shared source code 
● Work with product and design teams to deliver exceptional user experiences 
● Seek improvement in self and team, pushing everyone to be better through modern development practices and sharing of discovered knowledge 

Qualifications

Required Critical Skills & Qualifications: 
● Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 
● 3+ years contributing to front end software development as part of a team 
● Strong fundamentals in JS, HTML, CSS. 
● Experience building large applications in a modern framework. (React, Angular, Vue, etc...) 
● Able to contribute to application design and architecture discussions. 
● Experience consuming RESTful APIs. 
● Familiar with using Git to manage source code. 
● Able to engineer for performance when working with large data sets. 

Preferred Skills & Qualifications: 
● Experiencing working with mapping libraries. (Google Maps, Mapbox) 
● Deep knowledge of React. 
● Experience with tools like Redux to manage complex application state. 
● Experience authenticating with 3rd party services using protocols like OAuth. 
● Experience managing build processes using tools like Webpack. 
● Experience working with Websockets. 
● Experience with image recognition tools.