Lead Web Front-end Developer Job

Job Description

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Purpose and Passion • Comprehensive Benefits • Life-Work Integration • Community • Career Growth

At Boston Scientific, you will find a collaborative culture driven by a passion for innovation that keeps us connected on the most essential level. With determination, imagination and a deep caring for human life, we’re solving some of the most important healthcare industry challenges. Together, we’re one global team committed to making a difference in people’s lives around the world. This is a place where you can find a career with meaningful purpose—improving lives through your life’s work.

About the role

The Lead Front-end Developer will focus on cross-organizational initiatives to evolve our user experiences across Boston Scientific, as well as being a key player in developing experience guidelines and standards for customer-facing platforms, such as Adobe Experience Manager and SalesForce Community. As a development lead, you will have the opportunity to define, maintain and evangelize code standards, best practices and forward-thinking solutions. This role will report directly to the Senior Manager of the Design Team/Head of Experience Design, within Global Digital Marketing at Boston Scientific.

We are on a mission to create experiences for our customers that are intuitive, seamless and well-structured. You are a creative-thinker and can advocate for your work with examples and strong presentation skills. You work well with others, both remotely and in-person, and know how to keep the momentum going throughout a project, with a sense of humor to boot. You have experience working with a wide range of teammates and partners; product teams, in-house teams, agencies, freelancers, consultants. You have hands-on experience working in, or in close collaboration with technical teams, as well as the ability to communicate with technical resources.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Serve as a Lead Front-end Developer, Writing and reviewing code with an eye for quality, efficiency, and stability.
• Develop responsive, mobile-first, accessible global templates and components for our customer-facing platforms
• Articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision
• Work with the team to facilitate requirement building, code reviews and QA testing
• Work closely with the Design team and product owners, being an integral part of the design solution and transforming designs into compelling user-facing products
• Build easy-to-use, mobile-first UIs with an atomic design principle approach, contributing to and maintaining the global design system
• Own the development of front-end code standards and comprehensive documentation
• Maintain and foster a high level of communication and collaboration, aptitude for building consensus and compromise with your approach, and enthusiasm for introducing new concepts and processes
• Maintaining a high awareness of industry trends, particularly with regard to accessibility, usability, and emerging front-end technologies
  

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of professional experience developing web experiences
• BS / MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Excellent analytical, verbal, writing and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with others across the organization
• In-depth understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, as well as related tools (dependency management, CSS preprocessors, etc.). Knowledge of front-end frameworks like React or Angular a plus.
• Strong knowledge of content management systems and experience developing global custom templates/components a must. Experience with AEM a plus.
• Have a solid understanding of accessibility guidelines with experience writing semantic HTML, with focus on screen readers and keyboard
• Ability to learn and master new technologies and tools; technologies used at Boston Scientific include: Solid understanding of JavaScript (ES6+, not jQuery), Gulp, Sass, Bootstrap Framework, as well as Git and Bitbucket repositories
• Demonstrate experience working in agile/scrum/lean methodologies with many different teams, including, Product, Marketing, Analytics, Development and IT
• Able to communicate technical concepts, orally and in written documentation, effectively to members of cross-functional teams, clients, and stakeholders
• Knowledge of best-practices in supporting multiple browsers and platforms, along with best-practices in Search Engine Optimization
• Working knowledge of InVision for specifications, and JIRA for project management needed. Experience with Sketch or Photoshop a plus.
• Code samples that demonstrate adherence to best practices in semantic structure, as well as an understanding of development with atomic design principles in mind

About us

As a global medical technology leader for more than 35 years, our mission at Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) is to transform lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients. If you’re looking to truly make a difference to people both around the world and around the corner, there’s no better place to make it happen.

Boston Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Disability, Veteran

Boston Scientific maintains a drug-free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Requisition ID: 466747