Development Lead, Front End

The role

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.

Kettle is seeking PST-based Front-end Development Lead with a passion for solving problems and making creative concepts a reality through clean, maintainable code. The client you’d be working alongside has been celebrated for its iconic design and groundbreaking engineering. And in the dev community, they’re known for a meticulous approach to code that’s so pure, it’s considered an art in and of itself.

Candidates should have:

7+ years experience in front-end web development, with proven mastery of performant and scalable UI components, and cross-browser/device debugging
Comprehensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and Javascript frameworks
Proven debugging and troubleshooting skills
Excellent verbal/written communication and time management skills
Qualities of a team player and a soloist
Passion for programming and creative technology
An insatiable curiosity for new techniques and a razor-sharp eye for detail
Deep respect for design systems and standards
Interest or experience with web accessibility (screen readers, ARIA attributes, tab focus) and performance (code splitting, layout/paint, CSS in JS, etc.)
Experience with:

Sass/Less
Webpack/Gulp
Git/Gitflow
JS frameworks: React, Svelte, Vue, etc.
Animations/interactions: CSS animations, SVGs, GSAP/Greensock, Canvas, TweenLite/TweenMax, etc.
Handlebars (a plus!)

We’d like to know that you can:

Manage and mentor a team of 2 or 3 mid- to senior level front-end developers, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow.
Lead front-end projects without much oversight, this includes delegating tasks, presenting to creative teams and sometimes clients, reviewing code, etc.
Author and contribute to a slew of proprietary implementations of the latest front-end development methodologies — custom-built for one of the world’s most widely-watched tech companies.
Lead the charge in accessibility. Be on the forefront of implementing truly accessible content at scale. And with this client, ‘at scale’ means really, really big.
Craft pixel-perfect, butter-smooth animations. Leverage the team's shared knowledge to exploit all the quirks of modern browsers for animations that perform consistently and beautifully.
Partner with teammates of different disciplines including production, design, graphics production, and QA.
Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning.

The target range of base compensation for this role is $135k-$165k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

A little about us

Kettle is a digital creative agency that operates at the intersection of design and technology. Its client portfolio includes Apple, T-Mobile, Nike, American Express, Mailchimp, Warby Parker, and many more. We specialize in delivering digital products and content-forward experiences that foster stronger connections between brands and customers. We aim to be the go-to partner for tackling the most ambitious challenges in the industry, ranging from helping start-ups disrupt the status quo to guiding and supporting established leaders constantly redefining their field.

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