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Position Title: Front-End Developer IV (Hybrid – San Diego)
Position Summary:
We are supporting a leading financial software company in hiring a Front-End Developer IV to join a highly collaborative engineering team responsible for building and maintaining large-scale, customer-facing web applications used across multiple product lines. This role is 100% web-focused, working within a shared component library environment, and will help modernize front-end architecture while contributing to high-impact features across the organization.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned JavaScript/React engineer with strong UI/UX sensibilities, experience working in fast-paced Agile environments, and a passion for building scalable, maintainable front-end applications. This role is hybrid onsite in San Diego (3 days per week).
Essential Responsibilities:
? Create and maintain modern, scalable web applications using JavaScript, React, and related front-end frameworks.
? Transform UX/UI design concepts into fully functional, responsive, and performant front-end implementations.
? Develop high-quality JavaScript/TypeScript code that interacts with shared libraries, reusable components, and internal frameworks.
? Collaborate closely with product owners, designers, and business stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver new features and enhancements.
? Work with QA and backend teams to ensure cross-functional compatibility, performance, and quality.
? Contribute to a fast-paced Agile development environment, participating in sprint planning, code reviews, retrospectives, and daily standups.
? Utilize automated testing frameworks (e.g., Cypress) to ensure reliability, maintainability, and regression coverage for front-end components.
? Participate in ongoing modernization efforts, including migration from JavaScript to TypeScript and improvements to shared front-end architecture.
? Ensure UI consistency across products through adherence to shared design patterns, component libraries, and best practices.
? Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize complex front-end issues in a high-traffic, customer-centric environment.
Minimum Experience and Qualifications:
? Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent hands-on experience.
? 5+ years of professional front-end development experience building production-scale web applications.
? Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, React, and modern front-end development practices.
? Experience with or willingness to work heavily in TypeScript as part of ongoing modernization.
? Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS, SASS/PostCSS, responsive design patterns, and component-driven UI development.
? Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks such as Cypress.
? Working knowledge of RESTful API integrations and web-based service architectures.
? Strong grasp of usability, accessibility, and performance optimization principles.
? Experience using Agile methodologies, issue tracking tools, and source control (e.g., Git).
? Ability to work onsite in San Diego at least 3 days per week.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
? Experience with additional frameworks (e.g., AngularJS, Ember, Backbone, Node.js, Aurelia.js).
? Familiarity with hybrid mobile frameworks (e.g., Cordova, React Native).
? Experience working with shared component libraries at enterprise scale.
? Background building high-volume, customer-centric web applications, e-commerce experiences, or multivariate testing platforms.
? Strong collaboration skills—this team works closely together and values communication, feedback, and shared ownership.
Work Environment:
? Hybrid schedule: onsite in San Diego 3 days per week.
? Highly collaborative engineering team with several senior engineers based locally.
? Fast-paced Agile environment with strong cross-functional partnership.
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Gravity IT Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.