Front -End Engineer

Overview

vLex is a global legal intelligence platform that provides legal professionals with access to the most extensive collection of legal and regulatory information in the world, all on one award-winning and unique platform. vLex develops cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence and data analytics, to help millions of users access the most relevant and accurate information.

At vLex, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of legal technology. Our cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are designed to empower legal professionals, streamline workflows, and provide unparalleled access to the knowledge and resources necessary for success.

Our customers include legal professionals, academics, governments and enterprises in over 70 countries. We provide case law, legislation, books, journals and legal news, and build intelligent software to streamline and enhance legal research and automate legal tasks.

We are passionate pioneers in leveraging the modern web to create cutting-edge applications. Our team believes in the transformative power of the web as a platform – flexible, ubiquitous, and ever-evolving. We are looking for a Web Frontend Developer who shares our enthusiasm for pushing the boundaries of web technologies and who is eager to explore and harness the full potential of the web.

The Role: Front-End Engineer

We seek a talented Web Frontend Developer to help build, implement and maintain modular, encapsulated UI components for our web applications and orchestrate the components to build full applications. As our Web Frontend Developer, you will leverage the capabilities of the modern web and the latest standards to create frontend experiences that survive the test of time and can be deployed across our expanding product portfolio.

The Tech

Web components provide an exciting opportunity for developers interested in crafting reusable user interfaces while advancing web standards. With stable browser support and growing adoption, web components allow encapsulating complex UI elements into customisable HTML tags that work across frameworks.

At VLex, we see web components as the future of UI development and are investing heavily in this space. Web components represent a flexible, forward-looking way for us to write UI-focused libraries, build our component ecosystem, and develop UIs using web standards instead of relying solely on traditional heavyweight frameworks when appropriate. For those passionate about W3C standards, technical design and UI development, web components present new challenges and use cases. The potential is there to shape both UI frameworks and web standards of the future.

Responsibilities:

• Develop clean, lightweight, self-contained web components using frameworks like LitElement and FastElement.
• Follow established UI patterns, interaction behaviours, and accessibility standards for components.
• Integrate components with reactive frameworks like NextJS, React through wrappers.
• Unit test components thoroughly using modern testing tools and techniques.
• Document components with examples, API references, and dependency diagrams.
• Writing and maintaining reliable code

Requirements:

The right candidate will possess the following attributes:

• 3+ years of experience building and shipping web components at scale.
• Expertise with web component standards like Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, HTML Templates.
• Experience with Stencil, LitElement or similar web component frameworks.
• Working with web standards, Strong JavaScript, HTML, CSS skills and component driven design principles.
• Self-directed individual with strong communication, collaboration and technical design skills.

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