Front End Architect

LiveArea Company Statement:

LiveArea, a PFSweb, Inc. brand, is a global commerce services company. We combine business strategy, experience design and technology to help leading B2C and B2B organizations deliver exceptional commerce solutions worldwide. We are a diverse team with distinct interests, skillsets, and backgrounds collaborating across all facets of commerce. Together, we take pride in driving measurable and material value for our clients by leveraging our holistic commerce expertise within specific industry vertical markets.

Company Vision:

We will provide a holistic commerce solution across vertical industries We will be world-class across all service offerings

We will engage with our clients as a consultative & unified partner

Front-end Architect

At LiveArea we strive to find developers who have a passion for front-end technologies. A natural curiosity to explore new tech and the determination and strength to rise to challenges are attributes we often find in successful candidates. It is imperative, as a leader in our discipline, that you find enjoyment in empowering your teams and greater community through guidance, support, and dedication.

The Front-end Architect will work with our development, creative, user experience, and project management teams to develop and deploy cutting-edge web sites with innovative technologies.

In this position you will be asked to collaborate with other engineers, creative, user experience, and project management teams to design and deliver state of the art front-end architectures that push the boundaries of modern ecommerce and web applications. The candidate’s ability to lead and mentor the team, and the greater LiveArea Front-end Discipline, is just as important as a thorough understanding of traditional and modern front-end application design and development.

In the Architect role, we strive to find true front-end technologists as opposed to developers. The Architect’s experience allows them to work effectively across multiple platforms, select and configure the correct front-end stack based on the application and client requirements, and work with a team to implement a development environment that promotes quality and efficiency. It also encourages the rich base of knowledge and academic environment we promote at LiveArea.

IN THIS POSITION YOU WILL

• Collaborate with creative and user experience teams to bring unique and engaging interfaces to life
• Push the limits with modern technology and platform architectures to expand upon the ways we can engage and capture the attention of our customers through our applications interface.
• Work across some of the largest brands in ecommerce to deliver web and mobile applications.
• Actively participate and take part in crafting our front-end community and vision, where we avidly review, refine, and promote standards and best practices across different platforms
• Work with clients and other engineers to define ecommerce and web application architectures
• Scope and estimate application development time and resources
• Develop and document standards and best practices and educate the community on them

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE 

• Ability to demonstrate experience across multiple ecommerce and web platforms
• Hands on experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Solid approach to leading development teams
• Passion to learn and teach new skills and technologies
• Ability to lead a group of developers across the application development life cycle
• Expert level understanding of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and Sass
• Expert understanding modern JS and CSS frameworks and architecture
  • React, Redux, Angular
  • Node and NPM
  • Webpack and Babel
  • ES6
  • Sass
• Thorough understanding of common development patterns, architectures, and best practices
• Expert knowledge with CSS animations
• Expert knowledge developing and maintaining responsive web applications
• SEO and Accessibility best practices
• Experience designing and building node API layers and data modeling

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE 

• React and Redux
• Angular
• Sass
• Node and NPM
• CMS integrations (AEM, Drupal, SalesForce)
• Headless architecture knowledge and experience
• SPA and PWA experience
• Custom client-side data visualizations

Pre-employment background screening will be conducted.

PFSweb Inc., is an EEO/AA - M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status.

Job Details

• Tracking Code: 7631-651
• Job Location: Remote US, United States
• Position Type: Full-Time/Regular