Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.
Kettle is seeking PST-based Front-end Development Lead 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.
Candidates should have:
- 7+ 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:
- Manage and mentor a team of 2 or 3 mid- to senior level front-end developers, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow.
- 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 $135k-$165k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.
