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About EAB

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We work with more than 2,500 institutions to drive transformative change through data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities. From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across five major areas: enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data & analytics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). We work with each partner differently, tailoring our portfolio of research, technology, and marketing and enrollment solutions to meet the unique needs of every leadership team, as well as the students and employees they serve.

At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other—that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their communities. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our recent awards.

For more information, visit our Careers page.  

The Role in Brief:

Front End Engineer

As a Front-end Engineer at EAB, you will be building the interface for an innovative platform that helps students with university admissions. We are a fast growing team tackling the trickiest problems in higher education. The Front-end Engineer will be a part of the development team and will be an integral part of the full product life cycle of the platform. The Front-end Engineer will help lead the team working to develop the next generation of technology for the higher education industry.

Open to remote based in the continental US or in one of our EAB locations; Washington, DC., Richmond, VA., or Birmingham, AL.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with product managers, development managers and stakeholders to elaborate on business requirements and implement solutions including code development and testing

• Collaborate with product, design, and software engineering to achieve common goals

• Follow common sustainable web application design, management, and development methodologies

• Develop components and modules for the interface of the platform with Javascript and React

• Ensure high quality solutions by implementing unit, integration, and acceptance tests where appropriate

• Developing accessible solutions across the platform

Basic Qualifications:

• 2 years of front-end engineering experience

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent years of experience 

• Experience with React and usage of class based and functional components

• Passion for making dynamic, performant, enterprise web applications

• Understanding of SDLC and the technical and business challenges that come with development of a product

• Development experience with git-base version control

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and quickly learn new technologies

• Thorough, methodical, problem solver and creative with extreme attention to detail

• Knowledge of and ability to discuss HTML5, CSS, JavaScript solutions

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. This role must easily be able to have clear communication over email, IM, phone, and in person.

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Expert at time management as well as working & finding answers to questions independently

Ideal Qualifications:

• Experience with Redux or any other state management library.

• Experience with unit testing in UI frameworks

• Experience with software design patterns and application architecture

• Experience with a broad range of modern Web API’s

• Experience developing with accessibility standards in mind

• Experience with object-oriented, functional, logic, and imperative programming

• Experience with agile development

• Commitment to valuing diversity, practicing inclusive behaviors, and contributing to an equitable working and continual learning environment in support of EAB’s DE&I Promise

If you’ve reached this section of the job description and are unsure of whether to apply, please do! At EAB, we welcome diversity of background and experience. We would encourage you to submit an application if this is a role you would be passionate about doing every day.

Benefits:

Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, EAB offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; dependents and domestic partners eligible

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• 20+ days of PTO annually, in addition to paid firm holidays

• Daytime leave policy for community service or fitness activities (up to 10 hours a month each)

• Paid parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents

• Phase Back to Work program for employees returning from parental leave

• Infertility treatment coverage and adoption or surrogacy assistance

• Wellness programs including gym discounts and incentives to promote healthy living

• Dynamic growth opportunities with merit-based promotion philosophy

• Benefits kick in day one, see the full details here.