Lead Front-End Developer

TEKsystems•Berwyn, IL

4d•$118,100 - $174,700•Hybrid

About The Position

One North is a digital experience agency that combines curiosity, scale, and agility to shape the future. As part of TEKsystems, a leading provider of business and technology services, we offer boutique solutions to solve complex problems. Our multidisciplinary teams of strategists, designers, and technologists excel in research and discovery, experience strategy, design, experience management, and technology implementation. Whether clients are establishing a vision for an experience or optimizing an existing one, we help businesses understand their audiences, design experiences, maximize technology, and bring their digital ideas to life. The world’s most successful companies rely on us to forge the future through electrifying work that sparks innovation and drives results. Bring your technical expertise, passion, and curiosity to a leadership role on a creative and energetic team that builds innovative digital experiences for our clients. As a Lead Front-End Developer, you'll work closely with every part of One North. You'll partner with industry-leading strategists and designers, work alongside architects and developers, and help shape technical direction from discovery through launch. The Lead Front-End Developer provides technical leadership across client engagements while staying close to the craft of delivery. You'll guide implementation decisions, mentor developers, support project planning, and help teams deliver work that is performant, accessible, maintainable, and thoughtfully built. As a Figma Service Partner, we work deeply within the Figma ecosystem, from early design exploration through production handoff and design system management. This position is for remote or hybrid workers. Our home office is based in Chicago, and applicants in the Chicago area are expected to be in the office part time for a light hybrid onsite/remote work model. We are also open to remote locations across the U.S. Itching to extend and build upon your passion for digital craft? You found the right place.

Requirements

6 or more years of professional front-end development experience, ideally in an agency or consulting environment
Advanced practitioner of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using current best practices
Strong proficiency with TypeScript. Comfortable in a typed codebase and able to model complex data well
Significant production experience with React and Next.js
Strong understanding of front-end architecture, component design, and scalable implementation patterns
Bespoke CSS/SCSS fluency. Comfortable architecting styles from scratch without leaning on Tailwind or other utility frameworks. We value craft over shortcuts here
Experience designing, building, consuming, and governing component libraries and design systems
Deep proficiency with Figma and the broader Figma product suite (Figma Design, Dev Mode, FigJam, variables, libraries). You can navigate complex files, spot opportunities and conflicts early, and partner fluently with designers
Ability to build resilient, responsive sites that deliver consistent experiences across screen sizes, devices, and browsers
Demonstrated ability to meet WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards
Solid grasp of SEO fundamentals, especially semantic markup and Core Web Vitals
Hands-on experience with headless CMSs (Contentful, Sanity, Contentstack, or similar), including content modeling collaboration in addition to integration
Comfortable integrating third-party libraries and SDKs to meet project requirements
Confident with Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review
Experience with JavaScript animation libraries (GSAP, Framer Motion, Three.js, etc.)
Demonstrated success leading technical delivery across projects and mentoring developers
Exceptional communicator who genuinely enjoys collaboration
Strong mentoring and coaching mindset
Ability to align technical decisions with business goals and client needs
Sharp eye for detail and high personal standards around the work
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making informed recommendations
Ability to influence without relying on formal authority
Professional curiosity, with a habit of staying current on where the industry is heading
Engaged in best practices, standards, and the broader front-end community
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and a clear point of view on where they help and where they hurt
Ability to help teams adopt AI-enabled practices responsibly while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals, code quality standards, and delivery discipline
Ability to do excellent work without AI tools

Responsibilities

Craft beautiful, useful end-user experiences while engineering for performance, accessibility, and maintainability
Lead front-end implementation efforts across client engagements, providing technical direction from discovery through delivery
Establish project-level architecture, development standards, and implementation approaches in partnership with architects and project teams
Identify technical risks early and recommend practical mitigation strategies
Provide thoughtful guidance, code review, pairing, and mentorship for front-end developers and senior front-end developers
Partner with designers to translate design intent into pixel-considered, production-ready experiences
Guide implementation of design systems, component libraries, and front-end standards across client work
Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teammates to deliver strategic solutions to our clients' challenges
Contribute to estimation, planning, staffing recommendations, and scope definition for front-end work
Help evolve internal standards, component patterns, AI-enabled workflows, and engineering practices