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Front End Engineer (Contractor)

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At NerdWallet, we empower consumers to make smart financial decisions. Our Brand Studio team is dedicated to creating compelling digital experiences that resonate with our audience. We’re looking for a talented Front End Engineer to help us contribute to NerdWallet’s brand and business results via your technical expertise. Projects include but are not limited to building an internal landing page publishing tool, enhancing our homepage surface, and supporting custom marketing initiatives with both static and dynamic web/mobile web experiences. If you’re excited to build user-centric tools and enhance our digital presence, we’d love to hear from you!

As a Front End Engineer on the Brand Studio team, you will play a crucial role in developing and optimizing user-facing features. You will collaborate closely with designers, copywriters, product managers, and other engineers to create responsive, accessible, and visually appealing landing pages and highly performant, user-centric web applications. Your expertise will directly contribute to enhancing our marketing efforts and improving our overall user experience.

Where you can make an impact: 

  • Develop and Maintain Features: Build and maintain the internal landing page publishing tool, ensuring it is user friendly and efficient for the creative and marketing teams.
  • Homepage Optimization: Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance the homepage surface, focusing on performance, accessibility, analytics reporting, and responsive design.
  • Custom Marketing Initiatives: Work on various marketing projects, implementing custom features and optimizing front end performance.
  • Code Quality & Best Practices: Ensure high quality code through best practices in coding standards, testing, and documentation.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with designers and product managers to translate wireframes and design prototypes into functional, performant, high-quality code.
  • Stay Current: Keep up-to-date with emerging front end technologies and trends to continuously improve our tools and processes.

Your experience:

We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

  • Experience: 3-5 years of experience in front-end development, with a strong portfolio of web applications and projects.
  • Technical Skills: Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js, Angular). Experience with Next.js is highly preferred.
  • Responsive Design: Solid understanding of responsive design principles and experience with CSS preprocessors (e.g., SASS, LESS).
  • Performance Optimization: Knowledge of performance optimization techniques and tools for web applications.
  • Team Player: Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a remote team via tools like Slack.
  • Problem Solver: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Where:

  • This is a remote position and a person can be located anywhere in Canada (with the exception of Quebec).
  • NerdWallet is proud to be a remote-first company! We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family.

Pay Transparency & Contract Details:

  • The hourly rate for this position is $45 CAD/hour
  • This is a W2 contract role hired by Magnit
  • The estimated schedule for this engagement would be 40 hours per week from January-December

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