Senior Front End Developer

Senior Front End Developer

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. 

We are seeking a PST-based Senior Front-End Developer with a passion for solving problems and making creative concepts a reality through clean, maintainable code. The client you’d be working alongside has been celebrated for its iconic design and groundbreaking engineering. And in the dev community they’re known for a meticulous approach to code that’s so pure, it’s considered an art in and of itself.

We’d like to know that you have: 

• 5-8+ years experience in front-end web development, with proven mastery of performant and scalable UI components, and cross-browser/device debugging. 
• Comprehensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and Javascript frameworks.
• Proven debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal/written communication and time management skills.
• Qualities of a team player and a soloist.
• Passion for programming and creative technology.
• An insatiable curiosity for new techniques and a razor-sharp eye for detail.
• Deep respect for design systems and standards.
• Interest or experience with web accessibility (screen readers, ARIA attributes, tab focus) and performance (code splitting, layout/paint, CSS in JS, etc.).
• Experience with: 
  • Sass/Less
  • Webpack/Gulp
  • Git/Gitflow
  • JS frameworks: React, Svelte, Vue, etc.
  • Animations/interactions: CSS animations, SVGs, GSAP/Greensock, Canvas, TweenLite/TweenMax, etc.
  • Handlebars (a plus!)

We’d like to know that you can: 

• Lead front-end projects without much oversight, this includes delegating tasks, presenting to creative teams and sometimes clients, reviewing code, etc.
• Author and contribute to a slew of proprietary implementations of the latest front-end development methodologies — custom-built for one of the world’s most widely-watched tech companies.
• Lead the charge in accessibility. Be on the forefront of implementing truly accessible content at scale. And with this client, ‘at scale’ means really, really big.
• Craft pixel-perfect, butter-smooth animations. Leverage the team's shared knowledge to exploit all the quirks of modern browsers for animations that perform consistently and beautifully.
• Partner with teammates of different disciplines including production, design, graphics production, and QA
• Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning.

The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k-$150k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.