Web Developer Specialist

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Engages stakeholders, product owners, and cross-functional teams to align on business needs, digital strategy, and content governance.
• Facilitates technical workshops, showcases, and knowledge-sharing sessions to promote web innovation, accessibility, and technical standards within the organization.
• Advocates for best practices in front-end development, including performance optimization, accessibility (WCAG 2.2+), and responsive design principles.
• Oversees web content strategy and implementation using headless CMS platforms (e.g., Contentful, Strapi, Sanity) and decoupled content systems.
• Collaborates with content owners to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant content publication, leveraging metadata-driven structures and APIs for dynamic content delivery.
• Implements personalized, accessible, and performant content experiences using modern UX/UI design principles and Core Web Vitals benchmarks.
• Ensures content workflows adhere to accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2+), SEO best practices, and performance optimization guidelines.
• Leads the execution of domain lifecycle strategies, including decommissioning, archival, data migration, and stakeholder communication.
• Maintains and optimizes legacy and modern web properties, ensuring alignment with security standards, performance benchmarks, and technical compliance.
• Coordinates with backend teams to deliver full-stack functionality, integrating modern front-end interfaces with API-driven services and serverless functions.
• Diagnoses and resolves technical issues, bugs, or regressions across multiple environments, browsers, and devices.
• Oversees adherence to responsive design systems, grid layouts, and mobile-first design patterns across web platforms.
• Utilizes design tokens, component libraries, and atomic design principles to ensure consistency in layout, branding, and scalability.
• Collaborates closely with UX/UI designers, contributing to Figma-based design systems and ensuring seamless handoff to development teams.
• Prototypes, tests, and iterates on new features or redesigns in collaboration with UX/UI teams, ensuring alignment with user-centric design principles.
• Architects, develops, and maintains reusable component libraries using modern frameworks such as React (with Hooks/Context/Redux or Zustand), Vue (3+), or Svelte.
• Leads the planning, development, and delivery of scalable web application modules using modular architecture and reusable components.
• Optimizes front-end builds using tools like Vite, Webpack 5, Rollup, or TurboPack within a modern CI/CD pipeline (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab).
• Produces and maintains technical documentation, design specifications, and architectural diagrams to support development and scalability.
• Performs system and requirement analysis, contributing to backlog refinement, technical feasibility assessments, and sprint planning.
• Applies advanced debugging, testing, and profiling techniques to resolve complex performance and integration issues.
• Owns the unit, integration, and E2E testing lifecycle, ensuring code quality and coverage using tools like Jest, Cypress, Playwright, ESLint, Prettier, and SonarQube.
• Integrates with backend platforms (e.g., RESTful APIs, GraphQL, E-commerce engines, CRM systems) and middleware using secure, scalable, and efficient practices.
• Implements test-driven development (TDD) or behavior-driven development (BDD) methodologies to ensure robust and maintainable codebases.
• Evaluates and improves performance metrics using Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse audits, and Real User Monitoring (RUM) tools.
• Conducts regular code reviews, enforces linting and styling rules, and mentors junior developers on best practices and emerging technologies.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience as a Web Developer, Front-End Engineer, or similar role, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade web applications.
• Deep expertise in HTML5 semantics, including accessibility (WCAG 2.2+ compliance) and SEO best practices.
• Advanced proficiency in modern CSS, including Flexbox, CSS Grid, custom properties (CSS variables), keyframe animations, transforms, clamp(), and media queries.
• Experience developing and maintaining design systems and reusable component libraries using tools like Storybook, Figma Tokens, or Zeroheight.
• Strong experience with utility-first CSS frameworks (e.g., Tailwind CSS) and extending/customizing design tokens for scalability.
• Solid background in responsive, mobile-first development and layout debugging using browser developer tools.
• Expertise with CSS preprocessors (SASS, SCSS) and post-processing tools (PostCSS, Autoprefixer).
• Familiarity with modern CSS architecture patterns (e.g., BEM, OOCSS, Atomic Design, ITCSS).
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript (ES2023+), including modern syntax, features, async programming patterns, and modular architecture.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, including strict typing, interfaces, generics, and configuration for large-scale applications.
• Strong experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries, such as React (with Hooks, Context, Server Components), Vue 3, or SvelteKit.
• Proficient in setting up and configuring build tools (e.g., Vite, Webpack 5, ESBuild, Rollup) and optimizing builds for performance.
• Understanding of advanced JavaScript bundling concepts, including code splitting, tree shaking, lazy loading, and module federation.
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and third-party services (e.g., authentication, analytics, payment gateways).
• Familiarity with GraphQL concepts, including queries, mutations, schemas, and caching mechanisms.
• Competency in performance debugging using Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, and real-user monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, SpeedCurve).
• Strong version control skills using Git, with an understanding of branching strategies, pull request workflows, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI).
• Experience with automated code quality tools like ESLint, Prettier, and Stylelint.
• Working knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2+) and experience implementing accessibility best practices.
• Proven experience mentoring junior developers, conducting code reviews, and promoting knowledge sharing across teams.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to articulate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to scope project tasks accurately, identify and mitigate risks, and align deliverables with stakeholder expectations.
• Professional-level English communication skills, with a minimum of B2 proficiency (C1 preferred).

Nice to Have

• Experience with serverless architectures and cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of additional front-end frameworks or libraries beyond React, Vue, or Svelte.
• Experience with performance monitoring tools like New Relic, SpeedCurve, or Datadog.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in front-end development with a focus on enterprise-grade web applications.
• Deep expertise in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES2023+), and TypeScript.
• Experience with modern frameworks such as React, Vue, or Svelte.

Benefits & Perks

• Not specified in the description.