You have talent, by happy coincidence, Beyond needs talent.
We're on the lookout for a Freelance Senior Front End (User Interface) Developer to join our NY studio in early September. You'll have spent at least five years sharpening your skills and constantly keep up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and techniques in the world of Front-End Development. As passionate as you are meticulous, you will always apply coding best practices to your work; adhere to specified coding standards and style guides, and help us further the evolution of Beyond’s own development standards and practices.
Above all, you’re an awesome human who loves being surrounded by — and collaborating with — smart, talented folks in a fun, fast-paced environment. If that sounds like you, reach out and show us what you’ve got.
There is the possibility for this role to convert to full-time in the future.
About the role:
What does it mean to be a Senior Front End Developer at Beyond? Well, you'll have the opportunity to do things like:
- Help design beautiful experiences that transform the world around us
- Apply creative problem solving to all you do
- Use HTML/CSS, JavaScript and other tools to bring design comps and wireframed interactions to life while supporting the smooth integration of back end code.
- Move between rapid prototyping/creating proofs of concept to create the initial coded expression of a solution, to participating in the build and delivery of solutions for production and the performance, scalability, security, and other factors enterprise applications demand
- Work closely with Back End Developers, UX Designers, Visual Designers, and Product Leads to deliver compelling web and mobile experiences for our clients and their users
- Occasionally work onsite in client offices, collaborating with both client / 3rd Party engineers as part of the broader team
- Work flexibly, proactively, and collaboratively with team members from multiple disciplines
- Present your work and communicate thought and reasoning behind it to all audiences, internal and external
Required skills:
- 5 or more years of demonstrated professional working experience writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Strong fundamental knowledge of JavaScript outside of any library/framework abstraction.
- Experience working with RESTful web services.
- Experience developing high traffic, consumer-facing applications.
- Experience diagnosing and solving cross-browser/cross-platform issues.
- Experience with modern Javascript frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular.
- Demonstrated understanding of Responsive Web Design principles.
- Rich interactions including CSS and JS animations, Canvas, SVG Frameworks/Libraries.
- Familiarity with package management and task automation tools (npm, yarn, gulp, grunt)
Bonus points for:
- Full-stack JavaScript (Node, MeteorJS, ReactJS)
- Native mobile app development (Swift preferred, Objective-C or Java as applicable)
- Python experience, and at a minimum interest in learning
- Familiarity with Google Cloud specifically (developing for App Engine, using Cloud Storage to host assets, etc)