Senior Front-end Software Engineer (USA REMOTE)

Company Description

100% REMOTE MUST BE U.S. BASED

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types.

Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, Ouriginal and ProctorExam. With the broadest and deepest applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for education, Turnitin is building innovative new products for the next decade of education that include AI writing detection and formative writing tools leveraging AI. 

Turnitin is a Remote-First company with work locations in Australia, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

Job Description

As a Senior Front-end Software Engineer you'll be responsible for designing and implementing user interfaces that are visually appealing, user-friendly, and efficient. You'll collaborate with various stakeholders, lead UI development efforts, and ensure the quality and usability of the final product.

Responsibilities:

• User Interface Design: Collaborate with stakeholders, such as UX (User Experience) designers and product managers, to understand user requirements and translate them into visually appealing and intuitive interfaces. Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to demonstrate design concepts.
• Front-End Development: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (such as WebComponents, React, Angular, or Vue.js) to implement the user interface designs. Ensure cross-browser and cross-device compatibility and optimize application performance.
• Responsive Design: Develop interfaces that adapt and function seamlessly across different screen sizes and devices, including desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. Implement responsive design principles to deliver a consistent user experience.
• Interaction Design: Implement interactive elements and behaviours, such as animations, transitions, and micro-interactions, to enhance user engagement and improve usability. Utilise libraries and frameworks (e.g., CSS animations or JavaScript libraries) to create dynamic and interactive interfaces.
• Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers, back-end developers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment between the visual design and technical implementation. Participate in design reviews, provide feedback, and iterate on interface designs based on user feedback.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks in the user interface, such as slow rendering, excessive network requests, or inefficient code. Optimise images, utilise caching techniques, and implement code best practices to improve overall application performance.
• Testing and Debugging: Conduct thorough testing of the user interface to identify and fix issues or bugs. Use debugging tools and techniques to troubleshoot and resolve front-end-related problems.
• Documentation and Maintenance: Create documentation, style guides, and UI component libraries to ensure consistency and facilitate future development. Maintain and update existing UI components and interfaces as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience with at least 4 years working with modern JavaScript frameworks developing scalable, performant commercial products
• Be well-versed in best practices in writing efficient, understandable CSS and accessible, standards-compliant HTML
• Understand front-end performance
• Familiarity with current front-end build systems
• Well-versed in writing and running unit- and integration tests
• Accustomed to iterative development practices - breaking problems down, shipping small pieces rather than long-running features, etc.

Preferred:

• Performance optimization, accessibility and internationalization experience
• Familiarity with WebComponents and/or StencilJS 

Additional Information

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning