MarkJames Search - Front-end Engineer (React & TypeScript)

Front-End Developer is needed in New York, United States.

Client: MarkJames Search

Location: New York, NY

Contract: Contractor, Full-time

Job Description

Position: Front–end Engineer (React & TypeScript)

Location: Hybrid – New York, NY

Our client, a leading company in the Digital Banking sector, is looking for a passionate and driven Junior Front-End Engineer with expertise in React and TypeScript to join their dynamic team. This hybrid role, based in New York, offers an exciting opportunity to develop your skills while working on innovative financial technology solutions.

As part of the team, you will play a key role in building and enhancing digital banking applications that provide seamless and user-friendly experiences for customers. You will be responsible for developing advanced technology frameworks that improve developer productivity while maintaining high-quality solutions at an enterprise scale. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving business challenges through innovation and engineering best practices. The company embraces a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and improvement, welcoming diverse perspectives and encouraging team members to challenge assumptions and think creatively.

Engineers are involved in the full product lifecycle and have the opportunity to influence the direction of the products. The mission is to accelerate financial innovation and build new financial products with a platform designed to streamline the process of launching and iterating on digital banking solutions.

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Advocating for the user experience, including performance, accessibility, and general UX best practices.
• Building reusable cross-platform components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a variety of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Taking ownership of work and seeing it through to completion.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, and CSS.
• At least 3 years of experience using React.js.
• Proficient with CSS3.
• Knowledge of Accessibility and Web Standards.
• Experience with both Responsive and Adaptive Web Design.
• Experience with using design language systems or similar.
• Understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Familiarity with ADA compliance.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, yarn, etc.
• Ability to perform benchmarking and optimization.

Additional Information

Full-stack experience is greatly preferred.