Frontend Job Description
Frontend
provides hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers.
Frontend Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective frontend job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included frontend job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Maintain, profile and debug applications that will be used by millions of users every day
Help develop custom sales solutions
Develop front end software for systems building on Data61’s research as part of Data61 business-focussed project teams as allocated
Perform evaluation of the developed software to demonstrate its competitiveness and fitness for purpose
Work collaboratively with project team members and others across Data61 to ensure that project goals and Data61’s goals are achieved
Make use of appropriate software development tools and processes for coding efficiency and for ensuring software quality, maintainability and reusability
Contribute to open source development and participate in the broader development community as appropriate
A Bachelor degree in Computer Science or in a related scientific or engineering discipline or equivalent commercial experience in software engineering
Familiarity with the range of browser environments
Self-motivated with ability to carry out tasks with minimal supervision, and the desire to work effectively in a team
Frontend Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Frontend
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, NEX, CPM, DOD, CPSM, ITIL, BA, HCI, AEM, PMI
Education for Frontend
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the frontend job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Engineering, Software Engineering, Education, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Science, Design, Mathematics
Skills for Frontend
Desired skills for frontend include:
JavaScript
CSS
HTML
Build processes
Code reviews
Source control management
Testing
Operations
Professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle
Desired experience for frontend includes:
You are a strong follower of progressive enhancement
Aware of browser nuances, incompatibilities and most things that can go wrong when it comes to CSS
You know how to use JavaScript at times to get things done
Comfortable with at least one server side technology, , PHP, Node.js
You know your way around HTTP, how the Web works and how browsers fetch and display images
You love tuning performance and making things faster
Frontend Examples
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Frontend Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a frontend. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for frontend
- Are up to date on all the latest Javascript frameworks and trends, and are eager to find uses for them
- Write reusable, testable UI components
- Assisting in the creation of user test scripts
- Perform unit tests to guarantee the quality of the code
- Code high quality solutions that will enhance or simplify existing processes
- Encourage the use of best practices and workflows throughout the team
- Mentor other developers, and share knowledge with the broader team
- Design and develop scalable frontend solutions according to the team’s roadmap
- Develop and debug modules and websites’s specific features tacking into account the technical constraints
- Provide support to team members and programmers from other working units whenever required
Qualifications for frontend
- 2+ years experience in Web development and Front End engineering (or MS CS and 2+)
- Proficiency in Front End engineering skills including Javascript, AJAX, CSS3, HTML5
- Experience with JavaScript templating
- BS in Computer Science and/or MS in Computer Science
- Familiarity with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, Backbone and Underscore
- Detailed understanding of cross browser support issues
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of frontend. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for frontend
- Enter HTML/CSS into webstore CMS and verify it looks/works as expected
- Help diagnose/fix frontend issues (CSS/Javascript) as they arise
- Provide second-level support for operations (installations and customer support)
- Determine feasibility of planned Javascript interactions
- Develop new user-interface functionality as requested, by hand-coding OO Javascript and/or leveraging 3rd party libraries
- Work in different roles across the whole solution lifecycle (requirement analysis, frontend backend-development, design, system integration, architect, support)
- You will be part of an agile team with a bunch of great people
- You will closely collaborate with a client on bringing his ideas to life
- You will design, develop and test your awesome solutions
- You will proudly demo your solutions to the client
Qualifications for frontend
- JavaScript or a JavaScript framework
- At least one years of hands-on client-side development in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Backbone JS and MVC frameworks such as Node.js, Angular js
- Experience on Good Dynamics/ e-Signature/OCR/PayPal/Face book integration is a plus
- Good sense of creativity and innovation is expected
- Able to work independently to meet project deadlines with minimum supervision and a good team player
- At least 4 years of hands-on client-side development in Kony platform, especially on mobile devices
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a frontend. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for frontend
- Work on a product maintained by experienced engineers, developed with modern technologies
- Learn to work with continuous integration pipeline to safely release your code to production
- Discover the benefits of component-based development
- Regular scope to apply your expertise to many interesting technical problems
- The position requires constant communication with colleagues, both in London and Krakow
- Primarily working with a PHP, JAVA team running various content-heavy, multi-language sites, consuming various 3rd party resources including live prices, personalized content and social feed integration
- To have the ability to define technical solutions to complex problems
- To be able to clearly articulate technical solutions to technical and non-technical audiences
- Act as the subject matter expert in relevant applications and domains applicable to CWS
- Have strong documentation and presentation skills
Qualifications for frontend
- Experience in at least four of the following
- Knowledge of modern web-based user interface techniques and technologies, for Rich Internet Applications with Ajax, are an advantage
- In-Depth understanding of JavaScript for building large applications
- In-depth knowledge of handling DOM Manipulation
- Desirable hands-on experience with one more Single Page Application frameworks such as Ember.JS, Knockout.JS, Backbone.JS or AngularJS
- Knowledge on GIT, Grunt, Bower and Node JS is a plus
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a frontend. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for frontend
- Use, and continually keep on top of, best practices for compatibility, usability, accessibility
- Collaborate with designers and business owners to deliver best possible user experience
- Develop systems which are used by thousands of users each second
- Maintain and develop given projects
- Design, Develop and Deliver features for Micro Focus Application Defender Service
- Collaborate with Rule and Agent Development teams on End to End Solution
- Collaborate with PM, QA, Docs, Ops and Support teams on Definition and Delivery of Solution
- Developing new user-facing features using Angular.js
- Develops approach to be used on projects, identifies risks and determines how to address and complete tasks
- May serve as a project leader for specific projects
Qualifications for frontend
- Experience working with prototyping tools
- Experience working with HTML & CSS preprocessors
- Advanced level HTML and CSS
- Intermediate level Javascript
- Applied experience working with WCAG A and AA compliance (minimum)
- Intimate knowledge of cross-browser and cross-device development
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of frontend. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for frontend
- Develop, test, deploy, and maintain frontend experiences capable of engaging users in a SaaS environment to allow them to manage delivering content, applications and services in a 5G-ready world
- Optimize and debug applications
- Maintain updated knowledge of the development industry and any advancements in technology
- Enjoy what you do, and be willing to teach and learn new technologies
- Help us build and monitor our highly scalable architecture to support Stylight’s growth
- Foster technical excellence in the team
- Bring your best practices, challenge the status quo and set things in motion
- Design, implement and unit test proprietary UI component library to be consumed by multiple products
- Collaborate with other team members to build up functional features using best practices, methodologies and standards
- Develop creative solutions that are maintainable, scalable and fast
Qualifications for frontend
- At least three years experience shipping web applications to production
- Detailed knowledge of the HTTP protocol
- JavaScript (Front End)
- Frameworks - Angular, bootstrap, and Backbone (Order of importance) with Fuse + Camel (would be an ideal but not a must)
- Java exp due to ensuring that the backend is developed correctly (10% back end dev)
- New and maintains development exp is needed - about a 50/50 split