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.