Macmillan Product Development team is looking for a Lead Front-end Engineer that will lead our front-end architecture and development of web applications and common components across the Macmillan custom web product portfolio. As a member of the Platform team, this candidate will take part in designing, building, and ensuring the quality and security of all platform products.

What you'll do:

• Build out Macmillan web products using React, working closely with the product management and design team to ensure effective and scalable internal and external SaaS products for Macmillan Publishers.
• Work closely with the Director of Product and SVP of Platform to maintain and improve upon our common components and platform architecture.
• Rapidly prototype interfaces to finalize an experience in the browser as well as build long-term scalable, maintainable, and performant production code.
• Write modular, performant, well-tested code through a fully Agile development process using the Macmillan platform practices and tools.
• Work with junior front-end team members, mentoring them and guiding them through proper execution of their tasks.
• Lead the front-end strategy for projects and make impactful decisions about the methodologies used across products.
• Write JavaScript using industry best practices as well as React components. Ability to use modern JavaScript build tools and techniques.

What you'll bring:

• Exceptional understanding of HTML and CSS including cross-browser compatibility and performance.
• Proficiency with the React JavaScript library and modern tools is a must.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Proven ability to transform a static design or mockup (low or high fidelity) into a functional app from the ground up using reusable components and patterns wherever possible.
• Experience in Asana and Invision or equivalent development and collaboration tools
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with unit testing; Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Being collaborative, self-motivated, and an "always-learning" person, excited to create great web experiences.

Ideal Experience:

• 5+ years professional experience with Front End engineering, web application development, web engineering
• 3+ years experience with JavaScript and React
• Experience building user-facing single-page applications
• Experience with coded style guides and creating highly componentized systems
• Experience leading a team for developers is preferable
• Experience with full-stack development is a plus
• Understanding of the publishing business is a plus, but not required
• Bachelor's (or equivalent working experience)

Salary range for this position is $160K - $165K.

Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world, publishing a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. Macmillan Publishers is committed to our authors, our employees, and to the environment.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Picador, St. Martin's Press and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan Publishers is a part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media group of companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.