Front-End Lead — Digital Banking & Public Web Experience (credit unions)

Role summary

The Canadian-based Front-End Lead owns the implementation quality of the member-facing web experience for the credit union . You translate the UX vision and Content Management System (CMS) architecture into a high-performing, accessible, and reusable front-end experience. You work closely with the UX Lead and CMS Technical Lead and own the component system that connects design to the selected CMS. You are a senior, hands-on engineer who can lead technically while still building production code.
Key responsibilities

- Experience with Central1 Forge Digital Banking Experience, and particularly their public website solution.

- Lead front-end engineering for the new public websites for financial institutions (credit unions, in particular).

- Build reusable, CMS-driven components and page templates.

- Work closely with UX to translate the design system into a robust component library.

- Integrate front-end components with CMS APIs and structured content.

- Develop responsive experiences across desktop, tablet and mobile.

- Ensure WCAG accessibility compliance.

- Optimize Core Web Vitals, page performance, SEO and rendering.

- Implement analytics, tagging and consent-management requirements.

- Integrate front-end journeys with digital banking, account-opening and other CU platforms.

- Establish front-end architecture, coding standards and development practices.

- Support headless or composable architectures where selected.

- Conduct code reviews and mentor other developers.

- Work with QA on automated and manual testing.

- Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD and environment management.

- Support migration testing, launch, and stabilization.

- Help create reusable AEQ components and accelerators that can reduce time and cost across future CU website migrations.

Ideal background

- 10+ years in modern front-end development.

- Strong React and TypeScript experience; Next.js experience highly desirable.

- Experience building enterprise-scale responsive websites.

- Experience integrating with CMS platforms via REST/GraphQL.

- Strong component architecture/design-system experience.

- Excellent HTML/CSS/JavaScript fundamentals.

- Strong accessibility expertise.

- Understanding of SEO, performance optimization, and analytics.

- Experience with enterprise security and regulated environments.

- Financial-services experience preferred.

- Experience with one or more of AEM, Sitecore, Kentico, Drupal, Sanity, dotCMS, Umbraco, or similar CMS platforms.

Compensation : $80/h-$100/h depending on skill set and expertise.

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