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

Solid 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.

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