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 recent 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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📌 Front-End Lead — Digital Banking & Public Web Experience (credit unions) (British Columbia)
🏢 Aequilibrium
📍 British Columbia