Role summary
The Canadian-based Front-End Lead owns the implementation quality of the member-facing web experience for the credit union. You translate the UX vision and Content Management System (CMS) architecture into a high-performing, accessible, and reusable front-end experience. You work closely with the UX Lead and CMS Technical Lead and own the component system that connects design to the selected CMS. You are a senior, hands-on engineer who can lead technically while still building production code.
Key responsibilities
- Experience with Central1 Forge Digital Banking Experience, and particularly their public website solution.
- Lead front-end engineering for the new public websites for financial institutions (credit unions, in particular).
- Build reusable, CMS-driven components and page templates.
- Work closely with UX to translate the design system into a robust component library.
- Integrate front-end components with CMS APIs and structured content.
- Develop responsive experiences across desktop, tablet and mobile.
- Ensure WCAG accessibility compliance.
- Optimize Core Web Vitals, page performance, SEO and rendering.
- Implement analytics, tagging and consent-management requirements.
- Integrate front-end journeys with digital banking, account-opening and other CU platforms.
- Establish front-end architecture, coding standards and development practices.
- Support headless or composable architectures where selected.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor other developers.
- Work with QA on automated and manual testing.
- Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD and environment management.
- Support migration testing, launch, and stabilization.
- Help create reusable AEQ components and accelerators that can reduce time and cost across future CU website migrations.
Ideal background
- 10+ years in modern front-end development.
- Strong React and TypeScript experience; Next.js experience highly desirable.
- Experience building enterprise-scale responsive websites.
- Experience integrating with CMS platforms via REST/GraphQL.
- Strong component architecture/design-system experience.
- Excellent HTML/CSS/JavaScript fundamentals.
- Strong accessibility expertise.
- Understanding of SEO, performance optimization, and analytics.
- Experience with enterprise security and regulated environments.
- Financial-services experience preferred.
- Experience with one or more of AEM, Sitecore, Kentico, Drupal, Sanity, dotCMS, Umbraco, or similar CMS platforms.