What are the responsibilities and job description for the Front-End Engineer position at Employee Navigator?
About Employee Navigator
Employee Navigator is a rapidly growing and highly profitable $100M ARR SaaS insurance & HR technology company that works with the nation’s leading insurance carriers, payroll companies & insurance brokers. With over 300 employees across six offices, our products are designed to make it easier for our customers to manage the complexity of employee benefits & HR including benefits administration, employee onboarding and much more. Following our recent acquisition of Enrollease, Inc. (known as Ease in the industry), Employee Navigator is now the leading benefits administration and HR platform in the US for insurance brokers, serving more than 4,000 brokers, over 175,000 companies and more than 14 million employees.
We've been named one of the Washington Post’s Top Workplaces six years running…. including during the pandemic! Come join us and help us continue the tradition as well as start new ones!
About the Role
We have an engineering team of mostly full-stack engineers, and our application backend is built on the .NET framework. We adopted Vue.js for our front end Javascript framework because we liked its toolkit approach. We wanted to be able to design web pages that ran the spectrum of simple Razor-based views and forms, to local Vue apps, to Vue components, and to full Vue apps.
We are looking for a skilled Front-End Engineer with expertise in Vue.js (or similar frameworks) to contribute to the development and maintenance of our web applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of front-end technologies, experience in building scalable web applications, and a passion for creating intuitive user interfaces.
*Please note:* This is a hybrid role working in our Bethesda office three days a week.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain front end components using Vue.js and integrate with a large-scale C# application.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement user-facing features.
- Maintain and evolve our design system to ensure consistency and scalability across our applications.
- Write clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation for our component library, including usage guidelines and API references.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and provide technical guidance to team members.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and best practices in front-end development and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- Proficiency in JavaScript with a strong understanding of front-end development.
- Familiarity with asynchronous JavaScript programming.
- Experience building and maintaining design systems and component libraries.
- Familiarity with front end build tools such as Vite, Webpack, Babel, and npm.
- Be opinionated on CSS, advocating for best practices, consistent styling, and efficient use of CSS frameworks and preprocessors.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Self-motivated with a passion for learning and problem-solving.
Bonus Points
- Knowledge of MVC and RESTful API architecture.
- Experience with backend technologies and/or a desire to learn one; Bonus points for C#.
- Experience with accessibility standards and practices.
