Lead Front End Engineer

Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. Operating in 37 countries, our platform has become the standard for design professionals around the globe. Every day, Material Bank connects thousands of designers with tens of thousands of materials from leading brands. Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way for design professionals to search, sample, and specify materials.

About the role:

Material Bank is expanding its reach with the launch of our new MB3 platform – our modern B2B commerce platform built to replace our legacy system and serve the needs of architects, designers and brands at scale.

We're seeking a Lead Front End Engineer to design, build, and deliver technical and product roadmap features. You'll be part of a multidisciplinary team building innovative products with state-of-the-art technology, collaborating closely with designers and software engineers. You'll help shape key technology and tooling decisions, and work closely with the backend engineering team to define integration standards. You'll also own critical aspects of the site's engineering, including SEO tooling, site analytics, monitoring, performance optimization, and the selection of testing frameworks.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and maintain the front-end architecture for a brand-new platform, ensuring it aligns with the overall technical vision and business goals.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design and QA teams to translate wireframes and design mockups into interactive and visually appealing user interfaces and build “the right things the right way”
• Optimize UI components and application code for performance, scalability, and responsiveness, ensuring a smooth user experience even during high traffic periods. Be very aware of Accessibility, UX, and responsive design.
• Create and maintain documentation for UI components, coding standards, and best practices to facilitate collaboration among team members.
• Help the team to rewrite, refactor, and decouple frontend from a CommerceTools application to a NextJS app & build tests using playwright
• Help build the strategy, select the right tools, and implement SEO, site analytics, A/B testing, monitoring, etc.

What you’ll bring:

• Master’s degree in computer science
• 5+ Strong expertise in React and related libraries, with the ability to design and develop complex user interfaces using React components.
• Proficiency in HTML, REACT and CSS, including knowledge of CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS.
• Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions to ensure consistent performance across different web browsers.
• Create intuitive and responsive User Interfaces (UI) that provide an exceptional user experience, leveraging your expertise in front-end technologies.
• Able to maintain high-performance service requirement.

Preferred:

• Prior experience building e-commerce customer portals
• High proficiency at problem-solving with focus on speed of delivery, being a team player, and being into details
• Knowledge of CommerceTools is a plus

What’s our tech stack?

• React, Javascript
• NextJS, Storybook, React Query
• Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Github Actions
• NewRelic, Sentry, Slack, GitHub, Jira, Notion

What you’ll get from us:

• Our people: We are a growth-driven team that values efficiency, builds smart automation, operates in small empowered teams, and moves quickly from idea to execution.
• Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
• Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
• Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
• Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities.
• Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
• Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid  working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.

Material Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran or disability status or other status protected under any applicable federal, state or local law.

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