**Job Location: Costa Rica**
**You will**:
- Be in charge of client presentations, directly working with other groups such as Creative, Business, and Technology.
- Code reviewing, mentoring, and enforce coding guidelines and best practices for more Junior teammates.
- Help coordinate the team's technical communication with other groups such as Creative, Business, and Management.
- When acting as the technical leader, own the technical architecture and design of the web solution and oversee the front-end development activities.
- Gather new user and business requirements, maps them to appropriate technical solutions, and estimates the associated development tasks.
- Ensure that all peers maintain concise and clear documentation for the projects as dictated by each Capability's guidelines and best practices.
- Own software release activities, including but not limited to reviewing code changes, client demos, QA hand-offs, and presenting solutions and justifications for tasks.
- Debug or troubleshoot complex or critical issues that junior positions cannot handle and provide root cause analysis.
- Establish project scaffolding and associated automation tools for the project.
- Create training programs for technologies within fields of expertise.
- Actively participate in Capability activities and initiatives.
- Setup regular one-on-one meetings to provide coaching, feedback, career development, and status reporting.
**You have**:
- Advanced English Proficiency (B2+/C1 reading, writing, and conversation)
- At least 5 years of experience working exclusively with Front-End technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery).
- In depth knowledge with Cross-browser and Responsive development.
- Work experience configuring, using, and troubleshooting tools such as process automation & scripting (eg. Webpack or Gulp) and pre-processing tools (eg. SASS, LESS).
- Minimum of 2 years of proven track record as a technical team leader, communication, teamwork, and leadership. (Managing teams of up to 4 people)
- Can configure automation tools such as Webpack or Gulp and include common project tasks such as pre-processing, minification, code obfuscation, etc.
- Knowledge of design patterns (e.g., model-view-controller, observer, object-oriented, etc.) and working with several mainstream libraries and frameworks.
- Capable of designing and choosing a quality assurance process for the project including guidelines for unit tests, load testing, and performance testing.
- Capable of writing code compliant with modern accessibility (eg. ARIA, WCAG, Microformats, ADA, RDF) and SEO guidelines and best practices.
- Capable of working with new technologies and building proof-of-concept prototypes.
- Capable of troubleshooting, debugging, and doing root cause analysis of web platform issues.
- Plus: Experience in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
- Experience working with other disciplines to deliver websites.
- 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._
