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Overview
Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.
We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.
THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:
Our digital guest experience is the defining strategic imperative of the E-Commerce. The Front End Developer is responsible for supporting, planning and coordinating functional and technical activities related to the user interface layer of our large-scale, guest facing, web e-commerce applications and websites. You’ll work alongside business stakeholders, visual designers, UX architects, Java technical leads, QA analysts and application architects in a collaborative environment to iteratively deliver solutions on time and on budget. You will leverage the latest front-end technologies, tools, and frameworks to produce UIs that push industry standards for accessibility, usability, and performance. We want someone who can not only develop amazing experiences, but also collaborate effectively with our award-winning Visual Design, User Experience, Development Operations, and Java Services teams.
YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY:
UI Development - Develop scalable UI for seamless integration across multiple screen sizes. Must have better than intermediate level knowledge on NodeJS (plus frameworks like Koa or Express), JavaScript (plus frameworks like React/Angular/Vue *React preferred), HTML5, CSS3 (expert level CSS preferred) and responsive web development tools. Must be able to integrate front-end solutions with multiple data sources, including XML, JSON, and custom APIs. Preprocessors like LESS/SASS along with JavaScript bundling with Webpack.
Delivery Leadership - Must have experience working with groups of 2-8 UI Developers in an onshore/offshore model with agile delivery methods. Should have experience collaborating with enterprise UX standards and brand governance teams.
Development Testing - Performs the execution of given test scripts under supervision. Records results and reports issues. Develops an understanding of the role of testing within system development, as a tool for design improvement as well as a validation process.
Problem Management - Investigates problems in systems, processes and services. Assists with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
Release Deployment - Uses the tools and techniques for specific areas of release and deployment activities. Administers the recording of activities, logging of results and documents technical activity undertaken.
Requirements Definition & Management - Uses established techniques as directed to identify current problems and elicit, specify and document business functional, data and non-functional requirements.
Systems Integration - Assists in the software builds from software source code. Performs tests as defined in an integration test specification, records the details of any failures, and carries out fault diagnosis relating to simple failures, reporting the results of the diagnosis in a clear and concise manner.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Process/Tools Champion - Leverage field experience to research and install improvements to our delivery methodology as related to atomic/modular design integration, testing practices (Unit, End-to-End, BDD), API integration, front-end build tools, accessibility standards, security best practices, continuous integration procedures, error logging, performance optimization, and the like.
ESSENTIALS FOR SUCESS:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or applicable work experience
3+ years of development experience with ReactJS
5+ years of experience in NodeJS, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5
Infrastructure experience (i.e. Webpack, Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx)
Proactive and able to catch issues before failures.
Possess a strong work ethic; takes pride in producing a quality product.
Work with production support and project consultants in an onshore / offshore model
Support off-hours production issues and code deployments as needed.
Minimal travel required (i.e. training, conferences)
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
Experience in developing consumer facing websites.
Ecommerce experience.
Apollo GraphQL experience.
- hybrid
- ml1
The pay range for this position is $88,200.00 - $112,000.00 / Year with
About the Company
At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest U.S. beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. In 1990, the Company reinvented the beauty retail experience by offering a new way to shop for beauty - bringing together all things beauty, all in one place. Today, Ulta Beauty has grown to become the top national retailer offering the complete beauty experience.
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