The Front-End Technology Lead (FETL) is responsible for designing and writing code, performing code reviews, developing technical documentation, and becoming a key contributor to their team and project. A Front-End Technology Lead acts as a technical leader in projects, ensuring that the team maintains high levels of performance, and builds and strengthens the relationship with the client. 

The FETL will work closely with clients, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts and end users. 

Job location: Costa Rica

You will:

• Will be supporting presentations to clients regarding technical perspectives. 
• Ensures to implement, configure, and troubleshoot with front-end helpers such as Babel, Webpack, Yeoman, Gulp or Node.js as a subject matter expert in front-end technology. 
• Code reviewing, mentoring and enforces coding guidelines and best practices for more Junior teammates. 

• Helps coordinate the team’s technical communication with other groups such as Creative, Business and Management 
• When acting as the technical leader, owns the technical architecture and design of the web solution and oversees the front-end development activities. 
• Gathers new user and business requirements, maps them to appropriate technical solutions and estimates the associated development tasks. 
• Ensures concise and clear documentation is maintained by all peers for the projects as dictated by each Capability’s guidelines and best practices. 
• Owns software release activities, including but not limited to reviewing code changes, client demos, QA hand-offs, and presenting solutions and justifications for tasks 
• Debugs or troubleshoots complex or critical issues that cannot be handled by junior positions, and provides root cause analysis 
• Establishes project scaffolding and associated automation tools for the project 
• Creates training programs for technologies within fields of expertise 
• Actively participates in Capability activities and initiatives 
• Responsible to setup regular one-on-one meetings to provide coaching, feedback, career development, and status reporting

You have:

• 2+ years experience as a Tech Lead or in a comparable technology leadership role
• Strong fundamental and practical knowledge of HTML, CSS, React, Next.js and JavaScript
• A strong background or interest in learning about AI, AR, VR, XR, Unreal/Unity
• A strong problem-solving, detail-oriented approach
• Experience collaborating with Creative team members
• Experience managing development and delivery of commercial websites
• Familiarity with website operations on a high traffic website
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and development pipelines
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools - JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc
• Experience with enterprise-grade content management platforms such Adobe Experience Manager is a "nice to have" skill
• Experience with GraphQL is a "nice to have" skill

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, mentorship, and employee experience possible!  CM new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success.  In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.  The ask stems from our want to:

• Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
• Improve collaboration and team relationships.
• Increase employee engagement

We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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