Who is a front-end engineer?
A front-end engineer is one who develops websites, designs applications, and ensures overall user accessibility. When designing web applications, front-end engineers work to perfect the website’s performance and to ensure that the processes such as loading speed, security, proper coding, and overall efficiency.
What does a front-end engineer do?
Front-end engineers have a primary goal of providing a satisfactory user experience without any issues, errors, or downtime. They also create and optimize systems and play an active role in testing and troubleshooting. Resolving issues such as those related to accessibility and browser compatibility is also a part of their task.
Job brief
We are looking for a front-end engineer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include the translation of UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and fill in the gap between a graphical design and technical implementation and hence taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.
Duties and Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities of a front-end engineer can be provided as follows:
- Develop new user-facing features
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
- Assure that all user inputs are being validated before they’re submitted to the back-end
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
Key requirements
The key requirements for a front-end engineer can be provided as follows:
- Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
- Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms such as LESS and SASS
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
- Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that the application will adhere to them
