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.