84.51° Overview:
84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.
Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.
Join us at 84.51°!
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As a Lead Front End Software Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team, applying your skill, experience and creativity towards building scalable and high performing experiences to every customer. You will help with technical decisions and partner with stakeholders cross-functionally to develop user-facing workflows and features. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, solving exciting problems while leveraging best engineering practices. We work full-stack and the team owns features end-to-end. On our teams, we’re working daily with product, and design to understand the problem and translate learnings into a pragmatic and effective solution. We happily pull in a peer when we need a pair to get through a tough problem or just for a second pair of eyes. We are always balancing new feature development with efforts to continuously improve both our efficiency and our infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Help set technical standards and best practices for the front-end team
- Build modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Transform large and complex datasets to beautiful visualizations
- Implement compelling, usable UIs; contribute to their design; and engineer them with Angular, TypeScript and Redux
- Develop and maintain interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations
- Data-Driven Design: Lead the development of our consumer UI/UX with a keen focus on user behavior
- Experience with sustainable engineering practices such as automated testing (TDD), continuous integration, continuous deployment, and monitoring / alerting.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and maintainability.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software architecture, design decisions, and coding practices.
- Optimize the visualizations for performance, usability, and accessibility
- Collaborate with product owners to prioritize features and deliverables.
- Strong fundamentals, with overlap across our tech stack (Java, SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, Docker, Azure Cloud Services, Kubernetes, Terraform)
- A passion for learning from and collaborating with a diverse, talented team and mentoring junior team members.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Degree in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent professional experience.
- This position requires a deep understanding of front-end development principles, a passion for crafting exceptional user experiences, and expertise in various front-end technologies
- Minimum 5+ years working in front-end development
- The ability to simplify and streamline complex problems.
- You enjoy staying updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.
- Strong experience in all aspects of client-side performance optimization
- Collaborate with the development team to integrate with existing data architecture.
- Knowledge of back-end technologies and how they integrate with front-end systems
- Excellent communication skills - you can effectively work with engineers but at the same time collaborate with product owners and deliver robust cloud-based solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in Ad Tech industry
- Angular 15+ experience
- Experience in implementing metadata-driven, interconnected front-end elements
- Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular and other front-end technologies
- Experience with responsive web design, cross-browser compatibility and web accessibility
- Experience with front end testing frameworks
- Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON
- Experience with version control systems such as Git
- Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum
IMPORTANT INFO
This is a Hybrid position. Candidates must be able to come into the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of each week. We have locations in Cincinnati, OH, Chicago, IL, Deerfield, IL, New York, NY, and Portland, OR. There are no remote options for this position.
We are NOT working with Staffing Firms, Consulting Companies, or any other 3rd parties on this position.
Full-time only. No contracts. No C2C.
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