Senior Front-End Lead: Digital Banking & Public Web

Aequilibrium; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Aequilibrium in Vancouver, Canada, seeks a Front-End Lead to own the member-facing web experience for credit unions. You translate UX and CMS architecture into a high-performing, accessible front-end and lead the component system that connects design to CMS.

You are a senior, hands-on engineer who mentors others and writes production code, with strong React and TypeScript skills (Next.js desirable). You will optimize Core Web Vitals, accessibility, SEO, analytics, and collaborate with UX, CMS,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in modern front-end development.
• Strong React and TypeScript experience; Next.js experience 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 AEM, Sitecore, Kentico, Drupal, Sanity, dotCMS, Umbraco, or similar CMS platforms.

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

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

CMS integration

Web accessibility

Performance optimization

UI architecture

SEO basics

REST/GraphQL

Mentoring

Tools

REST APIs

GraphQL

CI/CD tooling

Web performance tooling

Job description

Aequilibrium in Vancouver, Canada, seeks a Front-End Lead to own the member-facing web experience for credit unions. You translate UX and CMS architecture into a high-performing, accessible front-end and lead the component system that connects design to CMS.

You are a senior, hands-on engineer who mentors others and writes production code, with strong React and TypeScript skills (Next.js desirable). You will optimize Core Web Vitals, accessibility, SEO, analytics, and collaborate with UX, CMS,