Front End Engineer II (Remote)

Role Overview

American Specialty Health is hiring a Front End Engineer II for its Software Engineering department. You will build and maintain mobile-first single page apps, collaborate with front-end and API engineers, and support designers and product owners. The role also includes mentoring Associate Front End Engineers and interns.

Responsibilities

• Develop mobile-first single page applications using Ember.js across devices and environments.
• Convert mockups and wireframes into clean, maintainable, and reusable components (Ember-based).
• Maintain and write new JavaScript and legacy plugins.
• Ensure accessibility (508 compliance) and cross-browser/platform/device compatibility.
• Lint, evaluate, and test JavaScript; follow code standards.
• Assist with discovery, diagnosis, and debugging of issues in the development environment.
• Participate in Front End and Scrum team meetings.
• Maintain code libraries and document technical specifications.
• Research solutions; contribute to code standards and code reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience (high school diploma required if using equivalent experience).
• 2+ years developing and architecting single page applications using a JavaScript framework such as Ember, Angular, or React, and consuming RESTful/JSON APIs.
• Experience building mobile-first websites with fluid layouts.
• Strong fundamentals in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for clean, reusable, optimized code.
• Experience creating reusable components (e.g., Web Components or framework components across apps).
• 1 year writing ES2015 and Node.js.
• Experience with Gulp.js (or similar build tools).
• Experience writing unit, integration, and UI/acceptance tests.
• Working knowledge of Agile environments.
• Solid JavaScript concepts: prototypical inheritance, functional programming, closures, asynchronous programming, types, and promises.
• Ability to architect entire SPA systems with reusable components and understand models and DDAU-style programming.
• Ability to profile and debug client-side behavior end-to-end and explain reproduction steps.
• Demonstrated focus on performance and user experience.
• Stay current on Web APIs and modern HTML features.

Nice to Have

• Ember.js experience preferred.