MetTel is a global communications solutions provider for enterprise businesses and government agencies. We design and deploy tailored connectivity and networking solutions for voice, data, mobility, and IoT by leveraging our global private network and the industry's broadest portfolio of innovative technology. We digitally transform legacy networks with intelligence, security, and dedicated solutions management and have been recognized by Gartner as a 4-time leader in Managed Network Services.
We are looking for a Senior Front End Engineer. You will join our development team in our sleek offices located in Manhattan’s Financial District to build the best-looking, cutting-edge software the telecom industry has ever seen. Your creativity will find expression in generating new ways to deliver scalable, interactive telecommunications data across multiple platforms - web, mobile, and social media.
The ideal candidate must have experience building and supporting high-profile, highly interactive, extremely fast, client-facing web and mobile applications. The candidate must have expertise in modern HTML, CSS, Typescript, JavaScript and Frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, Next.JS, D3) and must provide demonstrate their depth of understanding and best-practice techniques in UI/UX solutions that they have developed.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead usability strategy and efforts to uncover user needs and business needs.
- Cultivate your own understanding of user problems and opportunities for improvement and share your insights.
- Translate business needs and product requirements into best-in-class user-focused and intuitive user experiences.
- Brainstorm and mock-up interaction and interface design ideas with Viator staff.
- Present ideas and adjust designs based on feedback.
- Envision, design and iterate by building prototypes, rapidly producing multiple possible approaches for internal review and usability testing.
- Work with Product Managers to create visuals for incorporating into product specifications.
- Design current interfaces while planning for the direction of future iterations.
- Work collaboratively and closely with visual design team as UX/UI is integrated into finished web pages and mobile applications.
- Work closely with the engineering team during the development process to ensure that designs are properly implemented and to maximize usability and performance.
- Develop Information Architecture documentation including site maps, user flows, schematics and navigation models
Desired Skills and Experience:
- 4-8 years of developing and delivering customer facing web or mobile experiences
- Strong track record of delivering results – portfolio required
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
- Understanding of CSS development platforms, such as TailwindCSS, Styled Components
- Good understanding of application frameworks such as React, Next.JS, Angular, and NodeJS.
- Proficient understanding of Typescript language and related best-practices
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Solid understanding of mobile-first UI design and best practices
- Ability to relay UI requirements to backend development team
*The salary range reflected is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $150,000 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job -related knowledge, skills, experience and abilities of the successful candidate. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process