Frontend Developer

USG is an industry-leading manufacturer of building products and innovative solutions. For over 120 years, Chicago-based USG has developed award-winning wall, ceiling, flooring, sheathing, and roofing products that enable customers to build outstanding spaces where people live, work, and play. With over 8,700 employees across North America and operations around the world, we are steadfastly committed to our core values: safety, innovation, quality, integrity, service, diversity, and efficiency.

We’re big enough that our professionals have the resources to make a difference, yet small enough that you’re not just a number. You’ll work on key initiatives and build strong relationships across the company that will position USG for growth into the future.

USG offers work-life balance, specialist and general/managerial career paths, promotion from within, exceptional benefits, and incredible long-term career opportunities for the right professional. Each year, we have hundreds of employees who celebrate milestone anniversaries with us.

ROLE SUMMARY:

The Frontend Developer supports the transformation and upgrading of customer experience by participating actively in the delivery team by taking on lead development responsibilities across the entire tech stack. The Frontend Developer shapes, implements and delivers web experiences and helps us to radically modernize our outdated technology stack towards modern cloud and SaaS based technologies (e.g. Contentful, Adobe). They possess a real passion for development and a demonstrated appetite for continual learning.

USG offers a hybrid workplace. The office location is Chicago, IL.

DEFINITION OF THE TEAM:

The Marketing and Loyalty team operates within a product-platform model, which emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and end-to-end ownership of deliverables. In this model, product teams are responsible for developing and delivering a specific product or feature, from ideation to launch and beyond. These teams are composed of individuals with diverse skill sets, including business and IT expertise, who work together to achieve a common goal.

The Marketing and Loyalty team is dedicated to delivering a superior digital marketing experience and driving customer retention and loyalty. By integrating business and IT expertise, the team manages marketing content, web landing pages, product search features, personalized marketing campaigns, customer data, and more. In this agile environment, the team works cohesively, guided by a Product Owner and a Tech Lead, to ensure seamless execution and continuous improvement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• User Interface Development: Design, develop, and implement responsive and visually appealing frontend user interfaces using HTML, CSS, Type Script/JavaScript, and frameworks such as Next.js/React or Angular, ensuring a seamless user experience across various devices and browsers. Help migrate our Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) powered site to a modern Next.js/React implementation.
• Platform Integration: Integrate user interfaces with digital platforms, ensuring seamless interoperability with content management systems and recommendation engines. Ensure the integration between frontend components and backend systems is smooth. Has a strong understanding and appreciation for supporting applications like PIM and Abstraction Layer.
• Component Maintenance and Development: Design and develop reusable UI components for customer landing pages, email templates, feedback systems, and digital learning tools, ensuring consistency in design and functionality across different components and applications. Build reusable architecture and services that pioneer best practices, enabling other developers to work more effectively.
• Collaboration and Alignment: Actively collaborate with designers, backend developers, product managers, UX designers, and other stakeholders to align frontend development with the team's overall objectives. Contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. Be the lead contributor to frontend technical solution architecture and design decisions.
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