Web Engineer

Job Description

Overview: The Engineering team is responsible for building the front-end experiences that power our major brands. Our challenges range from writing algorithms which serve personalized landing pages to solving the complex UI data structures of our product detail pages. We work closely with embedded product, user experience, and design teams to build performant and forward-thinking e-commerce experiences for our customers. Responsibilities: Implementing and maintaining the web user interfaces that power all company brands from a single code base. Modeling expertise in writing code that is readable, maintainable, well tested, and documented. Designing efficient and reusable front-end systems (JavaScript/Node/Vue.js). Collaborating with Product Designers, Product Managers, and other Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products. Performance, scalability, and accessibility are top of mind. Finding ways to weave improvements in these areas into all our work is a must. Contribute ideas for improvement around coding standards and process to ensure we are applying modern best practices to our work. Participates in Pair Programming. Practice giving and receiving graceful, thoughtful, and effective peer review. Leading medium to large feature implementation with low oversight. Qualifications: We use Vue! HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), Node, asynchronous programming, JSON General familiarity with browser APIs A foundational understanding of the HTTP protocol (status codes, http verbs) Able to implement best practices for SEO and Accessibility across many devices Comfortable using developer tools, IDEs debugging, and third-party tools such as Googles Lighthouse to optimize web page and code performance A firm understanding of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation Familiarity with responsive web design patterns in semantic HTML/CSS CSS and JS preprocessing like SASS / Babel Ability to drive Git processes, branching strategy, and conflict resolution Strong communications skills - able to discuss complex technical problems across teams and non-technical audiences Proficient with modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue, React) and Webpack / Vite Understanding of state management methods and implementation (Vuex/Redux/Pina) Bonus Skills (not required) Experience with writing universal/isomorphic web applications using Node Deep understanding of RESTful paradigms Familiarity with Continuous Integration and build automation Device and browser testing using automation (testcafe/webdriver.io) Active in the open source community