Front End Web Engineer

Vokal

(Chicago, Illinois)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About Vokal

Vokal is an industry-leading digital experience agency specializing in mobile application development, responsive website development, user experience design, and branding in an interconnected world.

Summary

Vokal, is seeking an exceptional web engineer to join our development team. At Vokal you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects for clients ranging from early startups to the Fortune 500. You will be on a team dedicated to employing best-practices across a range of technologies. Your experience as a member of our team matters just as much as the experiences we create for our clients and the users of our products. If you are an experienced JavaScript engineer who loves to solve problems and gets excited about agile frontend web development, we can’t wait to have you on board.

Responsibilities

Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop innovative, consumer-facing, and enterprise website and mobile solutions
Interface with Vokal and third-party APIs to bring a web application to life from the ground up, leveraging HTML, CSS and JavaScript equally throughout
Support and collaborate with clients, other developers, and designers to determine business and technical solutions
Continually deliver creative solutions with awesome execution

Ideal Candidate

**Required Experience**

* 3+ years of professional website frontend development experience
* Proven understanding of and experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

**Traits**

Motivated to be the best developer you know

**Required Technical Skills**

* Fluent in JavaScript
* Active understanding of semantic HTML, the DOM, and document outlines
* Able to build website layouts to design without the aid of CSS frameworks
* Production experience with React
* Responsive design techniques using CSS media queries and flexible layouts
* Interacting with JSON APIs and an understanding of HTTP status codes
* Experience writing automated tests
 
**Preferred Skills**

* Node.js development
* React Native, Cordova (vanilla, Ionic, PhoneGap), or native application development
* Grunt, Gulp, Webpack or similar
* Continuous Integration or devops experience, such as AWS or Azure
* Git and GitHub
* User experience design and information architecture
* Other language and platform experience, Python, Go, .NET, etc.
* Active open source contributor, community member, blogger or presenter

Required Experience

3+ years of professional website frontend development experience
Proven understanding of and experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Traits

Motivated to be the best developer you know

Required Technical Skills

Fluent in JavaScript
Active understanding of semantic HTML, the DOM, and document outlines
Able to build website layouts to design without the aid of CSS frameworks
Production experience with React
Responsive design techniques using CSS media queries and flexible layouts
Interacting with JSON APIs and an understanding of HTTP status codes
Experience writing automated tests

Preferred Skills

Node.js development
React Native, Cordova (vanilla, Ionic, PhoneGap), or native application development
Grunt, Gulp, Webpack or similar
Continuous Integration or devops experience, such as AWS or Azure
Git and GitHub
User experience design and information architecture
Other language and platform experience, Python, Go, .NET, etc.
Active open source contributor, community member, blogger or presenter

Compensation and Working Conditions