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Senior Front-End Developer, React
Location: Remote-North America (EST preferred)
At KAR Global, we are driven to be the world’s greatest digital marketplace for used vehicles. Talent fuels our incredible plans for the future of digital, so we put our talent, you, in the driver’s seat. You will have a wide variety of growth opportunities to accelerate your career as you define tomorrow’s marketplaces. This will be a fully remote role.
KAR Global has changed the automotive industry with its revolutionary product. Built as a multi-platform live auction app, online automotive remarketing system has made a huge impact in the industry and has acquired quick user adoption with a fast-growing client base. We are continuing to expand our footprint in the dealer-to-dealer online space in the US and Canadian markets.
Why Work with Us?
Whether your Fun is in working with new technology, learning skills, collaborating with awesomely talented people or growing into a Specialist, Team Lead or People Manager, we want to feed this fire in you. If you have the work ethic, skill and motivation, we will help you find a path that leads you where your passion wants to go. So come on; let’s have Fun together.
Position Overview
You’ll be at the heart of our engineering team, building products and services that will bring transparency and trust to automotive sales process.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Contributing to our current web application in AngularJS by writing clean, reusable and performant code following the latest ES6 standards
Helping lead the architectural design and development of our next generation web application (while ensuring seamless collaboration with the UX team) using React
Have the ability to work with the design team and translate wireframes into a scalable front-end architecture
Advocate for unit tests with high coverage and writing the happy paths test cases for E2E tests using Cypress (or Selenium) · Utilizing technical expertise and solid leadership skills to guide developers in creating large scale, resilient, stateful web applications
Providing effective code reviews for the web code base, and mentoring your peers
Knowledgeable in the latest frontend technologies and standards to ensure we are always using the best tools and techniques
Collaborating with cross-functional team members on designing and implementing new features
Have the ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders · Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Qualifications & Education Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering preferred, or equivalent work experience
You have 5+ years experience developing large, stateful, component-based web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (i.e. Angular, AngularJS, React, Vue, Svelte, StencilJS etc .)
You have a deep understanding of semantic HTML and component driven architecture
You are well versed in JavaScript fundamentals, and have a great understanding of the latest ECMAScript standards and feature-set
You are familiar with popular JavaScript toolsets (i.e. Gulp, Webpack) to help steer and drive development
You have an outstanding attention to detail, you are a big advocate for great UX, and you are keen on using tools/methodologies to help write maintainable and scalable CSS in large codebases (i.e. Less, Sass, BEM, etc.)
You have experience with mobile first approaches and responsive web architecture
You are enthusiastic about the concept of micro-frontends
You have experience with subversion control systems (with a preference for Git)
You have experience supporting the most popular browsers and comfortable writing clean code that supports some older supported browsers (i.e. IE11)
You are comfortable working with the built-in browser tools and prefer using performance profiling tools to avoid premature optimization
You have experience working in an Agile environment where delivery and execution is critical · Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
We thank all applicants for their interest. Only candidates selected for an interview will be considered.
KAR Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity. We are committed to providing employment in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Any assessment and selection materials or processes used during the recruitment process will be available in an accessible format to applicants with disabilities, upon request. If contacted for an interview, please advise Human Resources if you require disability-related accommodation.
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