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Detailed Job Description:

• Have a strong technical background, including 4+ years of front-end engineering 
• Have the ability to dive into new code and explore new technologies and APIs 
• Can speak authoritatively on a range of frontend technical topics 
• Have incredible communication skills and enjoy communicating challenging technical concepts. 
• Enjoy doing whatever it takes to solve problems and see projects through to completion 
• Find improving performance engineering standards, tooling, and processes rewarding 
• Uphold best practices in performance optimization and user experience 
• Hold yourself and others to a high level of accountability 
• Can effectively debug complex frontend performance problems 
• Demonstrate analytical skills and attention to detail 
• Have a good understanding of application development lifecycle 

Job Responsibilities:

• Audit websites for performance, identify optimization opportunities, and present the results in the cross-functional team environment 
• Work in a collaborative environment developing and executing against immediate and long term incremental programs 
• Make effective tradeoffs considering business priorities, but always with the user experience in mind 
• Advise web engineering teams on key technical performance and optimization considerations and best practices 
• Work with Data/Analytics team on ensure assets are trackable for reporting and insights initiatives 
• Profile performance of JavaScript and layouts for a multitude of devices/platforms 
• Work with partners and vendors (ex. Tealium, Google Analytics, Optimizely) to ensure each initiative delivers maximum impact to customers across all websites and data platforms 
• Generate performance reports, competitive analysis and benchmarks for internal partners using our best-in-class performance and optimization digital solution platforms 
• Provide an unparalleled customer experience by driving new features and technical documentation 
• Find performance issues before users experience them 
• Police and standardize performance budgets, scorecards and KPIs 
• Monitor and measure complex multi-step user flows on our customers’ websites and applications using a full browser and a script recorder 
• Track mobile and desktop experiences and performance over time, over any network connection 
• Keep an eye on and optimize 3rd party tags, and identify slow and error-causing external scripts 
• Run tests with highly customizable configurations on any device type, connection speed or viewport 
• Develop, share, and set the bar for high quality in web performance engineering 

Experience You Need for this Position:

• HTML5/CSS3 
• JavaScript 
• jQuery 
• JavaScript Frameworks 
• Responsive/Adaptive Design 
• Cross-Browser Development 
• Content Management Systems 
• Testing/Debugging 
• Git/Version Control 
• DevTools inside and out 
• Webpagetest.org inside and out 
• A huge bonus skill: solid hands-on understanding of Google Analytics, CDNs and custom HTTP headers 

Experience required: 4 Years