Frontend Developer

NWS; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NWS is seeking a front-end engineer to craft responsive, high-performance interfaces for our enterprise e-commerce platform. You will translate designs, build reusable components, and extend storefront themes and layouts while ensuring accessibility and fast page loads.

You’ll collaborate with designers, product managers, and marketing to deliver polished user experiences and integrate with GraphQL/REST APIs in a modern front-end stack.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain responsive, customer-facing interfaces for our enterprise e-commerce platform and digital web applications.
• Translate approved designs into clean, modular production code.
• Build storefront themes, layout structures, and reusable components.
• Implement critical shopping journeys and ensure performance and accessibility.
• Interface front-end with backend services, GraphQL, and RESTful APIs.
• Participate in code reviews and sprint delivery.

Skills

Front-end engineering

Responsive UI

Accessibility (WCAG)

Design system

GraphQL

REST APIs

Tailwind CSS

TypeScript

Code reviews

Tools

Tailwind CSS

PHTML templates

UI component libraries

GTM data layers

Job description

Responsibilities

• Front-End Engineering & Storefront Development
• Develop, test, and maintain responsive, customer-facing interfaces for our enterprise e-commerce platform and digital web applications .
• Translate approved Figma designs, wireframes, prototypes, and user stories into clean, modular, and high-performance production code .
• Build and extend storefront themes, layout structures (layout.xml), and reusable template components (.phtml / modern component libraries) .
• Implement and optimize critical shopping journeys: product discovery, faceted search/filtering, product detail pages (PDP), interactive pricing tables, shopping cart, customer accounts, and checkout workflows .
• Build front-end features that interface seamlessly with backend services, GraphQL, and RESTful APIs .
• Architect client-side state handling to respect Full-Page Cache (Fastly/Varnish) rules by isolating private customer data (e.g., dynamic carts, authentication states, custom contract pricing) into asynchronous client-side requests .
• Maintain clean, modular, well-documented, and testable front-end code while participating actively in code reviews and sprint delivery .
• UI/UX & Design System Implementation
• Apply sound user interface and interaction design principles across all customer touchpoints .
• Maintain and expand our shared UI design system and reusable component library to ensure visual and behavioral consistency across typography, spacing, navigation, and form elements .
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and marketing stakeholders during design reviews to provide early technical feedback on feasibility, responsiveness, and performance .
• Identify usability bottlenecks and propose pragmatic micro-interactions and layout refinements to streamline checkout and lead capture .
• Performance, Accessibility & Web Standards
• Champion front-end web performance as a non-negotiable architectural priority, continuously optimizing for Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) .
• Ensure all digital interfaces adhere to modern web accessibility standards, targeting WCAG 2.1 AA compliance through semantic HTML5, valid ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, and visible focus management .
• Collaborate with digital marketing and demand generation teams to build, style, and launch high-converting landing pages and promotional campaign templates .
• Implement and maintain structured front-end event tracking, Google Tag Manager (GTM) data layers, and analytics telemetry to measure engagement and conversion funnels .
• Embed and style marketing automation assets (such as HubSpot forms, lead flows, and tracking scripts) while mitigating any adverse impact on page load speed .
• Implement technical SEO best practices, including semantic markup, clean DOM hierarchy, and schema.org structured data (JSON-LD) .
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives .
• Partner closely with the Technical Lead to align front-end components with backend service contracts, deployment hooks, and architectural standards .
• Provide realistic effort estimates, identify project dependencies early, and communicate technical tradeoffs transparently .
• AI-Assisted Front-End Development
• We view AI-assisted development tools as a valuable accelerator in modern engineering workflows . We encourage developers to leverage AI thoughtfully to enhance productivity, code quality, and delivery speed .
• Practical applications include:
• Generating responsive layout boilerplate, Tailwind utility classes, and accessible markup patterns .
• Drafting documentation and summarizing component properties .
• We value engineers who use these tools with sound judgment, maintaining strict human review over visual fidelity, accessibility standards, code maintainability, and data security .
• What We're Looking For
• You will be an outstanding fit for this role if you:
• Care equally about how an interface looks, how it performs under load, and how intuitive it feels to real customers .
• Think systematically in reusable, scalable components rather than disconnected, one-off templates .
• Notice design discrepancies, accessibility barriers, and performance bottlenecks before they