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
- Solid 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) (Vancouver)
🏢 Aequilibrium
📍 Vancouver