
Front-End Lead — Digital Banking & Public Web Experience (credit unions)
Aequilibrium Software20 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead front-end engineering for public websites serving credit unions and other financial institutions.
- Build reusable CMS-driven components, page templates, component libraries, AEQ components, and accelerators.
- Translate UX designs and design systems into robust, responsive experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
- Integrate front-end components with CMS APIs, structured content, digital banking, account-opening, and other credit-union platforms.
- Ensure WCAG accessibility compliance and optimize Core Web Vitals, page performance, SEO, and rendering.
- Implement analytics, tagging, and consent-management requirements.
- Establish front-end architecture, coding standards, and development practices, including support for headless or composable architectures.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor other developers.
- Collaborate with QA on automated and manual testing and with DevOps on CI/CD and environment management.
- Support migration testing, launch, and post-launch stabilization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of modern front-end development experience.
- Strong React and TypeScript experience; Next.js experience is highly desirable.
- Experience building enterprise-scale responsive websites.
- Experience integrating CMS platforms through REST or GraphQL.
- Strong component architecture and design-system experience.
- Excellent HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals.
- Strong accessibility expertise and understanding of SEO, performance optimization, and analytics.
- Experience with enterprise security and regulated environments.
- Experience with one or more of AEM, Sitecore, Kentico, Drupal, Sanity, dotCMS, Umbraco, or similar CMS platforms.
- Financial-services experience is preferred.
- Experience with Central1 Forge Digital Banking Experience, particularly its public website solution.