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Job Summary:

Northern Trust is a company dedicated to delivering innovative experiences for clients through a multidisciplinary design and research team. They are seeking a Front End Engineer for their Design System team to build frontend experiences and elevate digital interactions through prototypes and components while collaborating closely with design and product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develops reusable/configurable components in React and Typescript

• Contributes back to our design system in the form of components, documentation, best practices, and supports.

• Exhibits deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/Typescript to help support implementation team with best practices

• Contributes to an open culture that enables development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism.

• Manages expectations and deliver effective, efficient, and thoughtful technical solutions.

• Collaborates and communicate professionally with designers, product owners and architects to understand technical needs and user requirements while effectively communicating the complexity, intent, and specifications of development tasks.

Qualifications:

Required:

• A minimum of two years of front-end UI development experience, writing semantic HTML, CSS, ES6 JavaScript and Typescript

• Strong knowledge on Typescript and React framework

• Strong knowledge on CSS frameworks and CSS processors

• Demonstrate deep understanding and advocacy on software engineering best practices

• Proven experience on writing unit test and Test Driven Development

• Experience with debugging and browser performance optimization

• Experience using GIT and source control workflows with multiple contributors

• Experience with Node, Webpack, and NPM libraries

• Practical understanding of accessibility standards and WCAG 2.1 compliance

• Attention to detail, having a sense of design and layout

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (the ability to effectively sell an idea)

• Ability to manage time wisely given competing priorities, meet agreed upon deadlines, and be accountable for work

• Experience in working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, including waterfall and (more importantly) agile methodologies

• Work portfolio (applications, code samples) that demonstrates systematic and creative development thinking as well as a deep understanding of UI development best practices

Preferred:

• Past experience working in a design system team

• Experience with end-to-end testing

• Experience with mobile device testing frameworks

Company:

Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking. Founded in 1889, the company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company.