Front End Software Engineer - Web UI Development, JavaScript and CSS

About Hudson's Bay Company Hudson's Bay Company is one of the fastest-growing department store retailers in the world, based on its successful formula of driving the performance of high quality stores and their all-channel offerings, unlocking the value of real estate holdings and growing through acquisitions. Founded in 1670, HBC is the oldest company in North America. HBC's portfolio today includes nine banners, in formats ranging from luxury to better department stores to off price, with more than 460 stores and 65,000 employees around the world. In North America, HBC's leading banners include Hudson's Bay, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks OFF 5TH, along with Find @ Lord & Taylor and Home Outfitters. In Europe, its banners include GALERIA Kaufhof, the largest department store group in Germany, Belgium's only department store group Galeria INNO, as well as Sportarena. On February 1st this year, Hudson's Bay Company acquired Gilt Groupe Holdings, Inc. ("Gilt"). About Gilt Gilt, www.gilt.com, is an innovative online shopping destination offering its members special access to the most inspiring merchandise and experiences all at insider prices. Gilt opens a window every day to the exceptional as it continually searches the world for the most coveted brands and products, including fashion and accessories for women, men, and children; home decor; and unique activities in select cities and destinations. HBC Digital is a new division at Hudson’s Bay Company incorporating Gilt’s Technology Division. HBC Digital is responsible for driving the digital retail/ecommerce and digital customer experience across the HBC enterprise including all HBC retail banners (Gilt, Saks, Lord & Taylor, Saks off 5th, Hudson’s Bay Company). HBC Digital will position our retail banners as leaders in the digital arena now and drive innovation for the future. As part of this new division, HBC Digital is modernizing its systems top to bottom for saks.com, saksoff5th.com, thebay.com and lordandtaylor.com. This is an exciting opportunity to join a talented technical team and gain cutting edge experience for recognizable brands. Small, autonomous teams. Decentralized decision-making. Microservices. REST APIs. Backbone. Angular. Reactjs/Flux. Responsive Design. Central UI modules repository via NPM. Node.js. Gulp. Git. Atlassian. Scala. Play Framework. NoSQL. AWS. Team ownership of end-to-end quality. Support for open source technologies and also authoring, publishing and contributing to them. A friction-free production environment. Distributed systems. Continuous delivery. Simplicity. Automation. These are some of the key ingredients of Gilt’s robust technology culture. If this all sounds good to you, then keep reading! Our Culture We’re very passionate about preserving our culture of trust and autonomy. Anyone on our team can give a presentation, develop an open source project, attend or speak at a conference, spend funds in the team budget, organize a meetup, or invite someone interesting over to our office for coffee and a chat. We embrace our creativity and are open to embracing yours. During the interview process we hope to learn something from you. What’s your potential? What can you bring that no one else can? What open source projects can you share with us? We can’t wait to hear from you! QUALIFICATIONS The Opportunity You consider yourself a Web UI Engineer, and are interested in working on cutting edge technologies to provide a first class solution. A HBC Digital Front End Engineer is someone who has intimate knowledge of web UI development best-practices and standards. has an advanced knowledge of JavaScript and CSS. liaises with design teams to review and contribute to wireframes and design documents with a view to producing a high-quality web UX for the end user. Technical Requirements: Relevant experience building client-side web applications using a contemporary client-side MVC/MVVM framework. Working knowledge of integrating web applications with HTTP REST APIs. We use Play Framework (w/Scala) and Node.js on the server, knowledge of these or similar technologies is desirable. Bonus Attributes: Open to working on all parts of the software stack. Experience with web UI code testing. Good understanding of HTTP(S) and web servers/proxies.