Future Opportunities - Lead Front End Engineers Chicago, IL, United States and 2 Posted on 03/2[...]

Company: Hearst Communications, Inc.
Location: Chicago
Posted on: October 25, 2024

Job Description:

Why iCrossing? -
For over 20 years, iCrossing has been partnering with the world's largest B2B and B2C brands to provide connected marketing & technology solutions that transform brand experiences and marketing strategies into superior business outcomes. Our human centric approach evolves customer experience, employee experience, and user experience across digital and physical channels powered by data and intelligent creative.
We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds, cultures, and disciplines that come together to form iCrossing community. What we do starts with our people.
We are part of the Hearst Corporation, the world's leading media, entertainment, and content company, which gives us access to the most valuable data and insights, talent and audiences.
About this team -
Want to work with our technology team but don't see a job on our Careers page that fits your background right now? Apply here to be considered for future opportunities with these teams.
What You'll Do -
As a Lead Front End Engineer, you'll lead a team of iCrossing software developers building consumer-facing websites on an enterprise content management system (CMS). You'll be successful by leveraging your leadership skills and technical front end development expertise to build these websites on the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) CMS, all running on Amazon Web Services. You will lead the technical implementation of the experience design, and will work closely with your clients, their design agency, and other IT partners involved.
Additionally, you will:

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• Lead ongoing development and code reviews, guiding the team on best practices.
  
• Manage your team and ensure timely completion of coding assignments. Ensure quality of deliverables and system level documentation.
  
• Report to and collaborate with a Director of Technical Architecture for solution design.
  
• Work with Technical Managers to assign work, estimate project specific work, and ensure the timeliness/quality of deliverables and make sure all appropriate parties are informed of tech team status and issues.
  
• Be the technical lead and participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.
  
• Develop front end code for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites.
  
  Who you are: -
  
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  • 6+ years of experience building websites.
    
  • Expert understanding of HTML5, CSS (SASS/Less) and JavaScript.
    
  • Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) CMS.
    
  • Worked with modern web development practices including implementing responsive design and mobile first layouts.
    
  • Skilled at setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment, ideally using AWS.
    
  • Skilled at troubleshooting issues with code and environments, helping your team members resolve roadblocks.
    
    About our technology team -
    We're engineers and solutions integrators experienced at all levels of the application life cycle. No matter our individual role, every team member has two essential responsibilities: build technologies that power digital transformations and make the impossible, possible.
    With a clear focus on creating engaging, rich, and dynamic customer experiences, together we create world-class data-driven solutions for Omni-channel digital marketing initiatives. Keeping up with the proliferation of devices, operating systems and APIs takes some serious technical talent - and our team has lots of it!
    We are better together. Each one of us has a role in making iCrossing an energizing and inspiring place to work.
    Our Mission & Values -
    The iCrossing mission is to Transform Experiences. The "we" is implied, but never taken for granted. This mission impacts the way we work, the way we think, the way we treat one another, and the way we evolve into what we want to be. We operate as a community of humans, and we can adapt and evolve because we are guided by values not rules. Our core values map back to our vision.
    Be Kind: lead with compassion. What you truly know about someone's life is very little.Lead with Candor: know the line. Is what you say true, good, and useful?We Before Me: lead for others. The sum is always going to be greater than the parts.
    We evolve clients for a human-centric future - creating a better world for everyone.
    Benefits
    iCrossing offers a range of employee benefits including generous PTO, 11 paid holidays, 401k + company match, full medical/dental/vision coverage, FSA & HSA options, family leave, commuter benefits, and more.
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