Front End Developer

This is a US based 100% remote position for someone based in PST or EST time zone. It will start as a 7 month engagement but could extend up to 18 months.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a pioneering team at a leading global company, dedicated to crafting engaging and innovative digital experiences. You'll be at the forefront of developing a brand-new, captivating game title using cutting-edge web technologies, directly impacting how millions of users interact and play. Your contributions will shape the future of interactive entertainment, bringing fresh, casual gaming experiences to life and pushing the boundaries of what's possible on the web.

As a key member of our engineering team, you will be instrumental in building responsive, performant, and visually polished web game experiences. You'll collaborate closely with a diverse group of engineers, designers, and producers to translate creative visions into tangible, production-ready features. This role offers a unique chance to work with bleeding-edge AI technologies and processes within a fast-evolving web and mobile game environment, delivering pixel-perfect implementations and enhancing user engagement through innovative design and robust functionality.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Production, and Design to deliver high-quality features.
• Translate Figma designs and interaction specs into tested, accessible, production-ready UI components and pages.
• Enhance and extend existing design systems and framework code.
• Refine visual polish, fix defects, and bring implementations up to spec (pixel precision).
• Participate in code reviews and follow established quality, security, and accessibility standards.
• Plan, track, and communicate progress using project/task management tools.
• Instrument features for telemetry, performance, and error tracking (where applicable).

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5-7 years of professional front-end engineering experience.
• Minimum 5 years' experience with CSS.
• Minimum 3 years' experience with TypeScript.
• Minimum 3 years' experience with SolidJS.
• Strong verbal and written communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Self-directed with effective time management abilities.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot, profile, and optimize front-end performance.
• Core knowledge of the web development life cycle (planning, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance).
• Familiarity with tooling such as Node.js, npm, and Git.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript (ES6+), and TypeScript.
• Experience with modern frameworks and build tools (e.g., Solid.js, Webpack, Vite for code-splitting, bundling, asset optimization).
• Experience with design collaboration tools, including understanding components, constraints, and tokens.
• Strong understanding of data integration via RESTful APIs, including handling JSON payloads, error handling, pagination, and caching strategies.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Pixel Perfect UI implementation
• Single page applications (routing, state management)
• JSX/TSX (extensible, modular, reusable, dynamic html components)
• CSS animation/transitions
• Responsive/Reactive screen size support
• Web accessibility (WCAG 2.x AA compliance: semantics, ARIA, focus management).
• HTML Canvas
• Mobile-first and Touch Input ergonomics
• Performance optimization/analysis
• Web Game development concepts
• Web Security (XSS, CSRF)

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.