The Lead Front-End Engineer is a member of the Unified Design Team (UDT), a team that works across the entire product suite to unify and modernize our enterprise-level CRM platform by building and supporting our UI framework: ProgressUI. This person works with product managers, product designers, and other engineers to build and improve the front-end experience of our products and evangelizes best practices around quality, performance, and stability of front-end code. An ideal candidate has a strong background in UI frameworks and automation of UI components, with experience and passion for delivering beautiful user interfaces. This position reports to the Director of Design.

Who We're Looking For...

You love to keep up with new and exciting developments in front-end development, but always promote proven and trusted methods to build the best scalable foundation. You're excited to take on new challenges in collaboration with a talented team of designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers. You promote the best in others and push your peers, as well as our products, to new heights. You care about building the best product possible for our users, to enable them to do amazing things.

Responsibilities

• Own and extend our Progress UI framework to maintain product design standards for our enterprise-level CRM platform
• Innovate and build net-new features and components
• Ensure features are well-designed, well-tested, and can scale to millions of users
• Continuously push the limits in React, modern CSS (flexbox, SCSS, etc.) and other frameworks
• Manage and mentor the Front-End Engineer that reports directly to you
• Lead and organize a new UI Guild of voluntary engineering members with a goal to shape and standardize UI development best practices across all development teams
• Train and champion Progress UI adoption across other development team engineers to build great apps
• Ensure you and your teammates are following good development practices and getting better every day
• Participate in Code Reviews, respond to Pull Requests and provide feedback to your fellow engineers
• Understand how the work that you do directly impacts our customers

Minimum Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in software engineering
• Experience launching medium- to large-scale applications with modern frameworks (AngularJS, React, or Vue)
• Must be able to travel at least 1 to 2 times a year; between Boston/DC office and for conferences
• A passion for building software that matters, knowing the software you build helps make a difference in the world

Highly Recommended Skills

• A high degree of personal accountability
• Loves to code, problem solve and debug
• Loves to continuously learn new things
• Creates a positive environment for the people around you
• Enjoys communicating and collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers
• Delivers simple solutions to difficult design and product challenges
• Shows a sharp attention to detail and dedication to cross-browser compatibility
• Understands UI/UX best practices, trends and emerging technologies
• Has a passion for automation and continually improving process and practices to build and release great products better and faster
• Has a love for Hackathons, meet-ups and/or experience speaking at conferences

Bonus

• Experience in full stack development to enable and enhance rapid-prototyping capabilities, R&D and building proof of concepts
• Knowledge of or experience with ASP.NET and C#

About Us

NGP VAN + EveryAction has been providing world class tools to campaigns and political organizations around the country. 

We’re a successful growing company of ~190 people based in Washington, DC and Somerville, MA.  We’ve been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for eight years in a row and one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by both the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO.

There's a relaxed atmosphere at NGP VAN + EveryAction that's infectious. Fueled by our love of important causes + game-changing technology, our team is made up of smart, passionate people who truly care about doing more good.

At NGP VAN + EveryAction, you don't just benefit from a competitive salary, generous health insurance, and some seriously awesome co-workers. We offer perks like plenty of vacation days, company retreats (think somewhere sunny and warm), a company-wide hackathon (we provide the food, you bring the ideas), and endless snacks to keep you energized. We invest in our people because we only grow when they do.

NGP VAN believes a diverse, inclusive staff makes us a stronger company and better partner for our clients. We’re committed to hiring people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientation or gender identities, marital status, religions, and disabilities.