SDE II

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the UI tier, making use of industry best practices.
• Work with the product team to understand project requirements and build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Create technical documentation, including designing architecture, flow diagrams, documenting technical implementation approaches, and pseudocode.
• Implement rapid updates to fulfill changing business and marketing requirements.
• Develop functional and technical documentation and designs for assigned projects.
• Work within a team environment, supporting the team goals and improving the web development engineering practices.
• Analyze and optimize front-end architecture to maximize page performance.
• Utilize SASS to create responsive page layouts and styles.
• Support peers and juniors by providing ideas and constructive feedback during brainstorming sessions.
• Set and evolve standards and best practices for our application development teams.
• Develop code consistent with A& F standard coding practices.
• Lead effort in modernizing the frontend UI layer.
• Collaborate with global teams on various technical implementations and discussions.
• Assist tech leads, delivery managers, and product managers with team/work status, technical roadmaps, estimations, and innovation roadmaps.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (e. g., Cursor, Copilot, and Claude) in daily workflows to accelerate development, improve code quality, and explore solution options faster.
• Contribute to an AI-forward engineering culture by sharing practical AI workflows, patterns, and guardrails with the team.
• Apply AI support across refinement, coding, testing, and documentation while maintaining engineering quality standards.

Requirements:

• BA/BS degree in computer science, MIS, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a related field, writing semantic, modular front-end code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, unit testing, system testing, deployment, and production support.
• Understanding of the concept of progressive enhancement.
• In-depth knowledge of mobile-first responsive design.
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging.
• Experience developing code compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG).
• Experience with CI/CD theory and automated testing workflows.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e. g., Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) in production engineering workflows.
• Experience working on Agile Teams.
• Experience with the following languages, technologies, or methodologies: HTML5 SASS/CSS3 CSS frameworks (e. g., SASS, LESS).
• Expert-level knowledge of React, ES6 and legacy jQuery stacks, UI, and unit tests using various libraries, e. g., Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, Playwright, etc.
• Workflow automation using Grunt/Gulp.
• Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as Node.js and NPM.
• Knowledge of React/JavaScript design patterns (MFE/BFF, Flux, Redux, Hooks)
• Experience using performance optimization tools (YSlow, Pagespeed, Dynatrace, FullStory, Quantum Metrics).
• Understanding and working experience in monolithic and micro frontend architectures. Experience with microservices.
• Understanding and strategizing DevOps principles, building pipelines, branching, and supporting release activities.
• Experience using backend technologies such as RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance.
• Ability to review document specifications and provide technical inputs on successfully implementing business solutions.
• Understanding and knowledge of localization/internationalization principles like i10n, i18n, etc.
• Experience with code quality standards and tools like Sonar.
• Experience writing rudimentary SQL statements (SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE).
• Understanding of SEO/SEM best practices.
• Knowledge of emerging AEO/GEO best practices.
• Experience working on JSP/JSTL or an equivalent server-side templating language (PHP, ASP).