About the role
As a Senior Web Developer, you will join a distributed team that builds the web presence of Gen brands – focused on cyber security and theft protection products. You'll be responsible to ship high-quality web software in fast-paced agile environment. In this role you will deliver front-end code (HTML /CSS /JS) to support one or multiple website projects with a focus on SEO.
What You Will Do in This Role
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, quality assurance engineers, and product managers across different time zones to ensure our brand websites adhere to SEO standards.
- Develop and implement a well-designed SEO strategy and optimize site performance, providing solutions for improvement.
- Analyse website performance, identify deficiencies, and pinpoint bugs in the current implementation.
- Participate in technical design sessions and assess and document the pros and cons of various approaches.
- Participate actively in Agile development activities, including sprint planning, stand-ups, development design, grooming sessions, retrospectives, and demos.
- Engage in peer code design, review, and testing to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Demonstrate strong debugging and problem-solving skills, both independently and as part of a team.
- Design, build, and maintain complex, reusable, and high-performance front-end components and applications.
- Mentor junior developers, conduct thorough code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure code quality and consistency.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers, product managers, and back-end engineers to deliver user-centric features.
- Utilize AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT)
- Stay current with evolving front-end technologies, frameworks, and AI-assisted development practices.
What You’ll Need to be Successful in this Role
- 5+ years of industry experience in developing web software solutions using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, NPM, Webpack
- Champion front-end best practices (performance optimization, accessibility, security, responsiveness).
- in HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JavaScript ES6, CSS pre-processors, front-end unit testing, AD, VSC tool (preferable Git).
- Solid understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL, and front-end integration patterns.
- Leadership and mentoring abilities for guiding developer teams.
- Comfortable with standards-compliance and cross-browser compatibility.
- Experience in teamwork and code reviews.
- Experience in evaluating and optimizing web page performance to align with Google Core Web Vitals standards.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Experience with documenting and creating flow charts to explain complex technical solutions
- Demonstrated ability to use AI-powered developer tools for code generation, optimization, automated testing, and documentation.
Optional Technical Skills:
- Experience with (or willingness to learn) backend technologies and frameworks (e.g., Java, Node.js, Django, Ruby on Rails) is a plus.
- Experience with CMS tools like HubSpot, Adobe AEM or any modern CMS is a strong plus.
- Experience with E-commerce websites is a strong plus
Education:
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusivity. We base employment decisions on merit, experience, and business needs, without considering race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, or other unlawful factors. Gen prohibits discrimination based on these protected characteristics and recruits talented candidates from diverse backgrounds.
We consider individuals with arrest and conviction records and do not discriminate against employees for discussing their own pay or that of other employees or applicants. Learn more about pay transparency.
To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.