Lead Accessibility Technologist

GameStop is looking for a Lead Accessibility Technologist to join our Ecommerce team. This role will be remote and will collaborate with a team of engineers, product managers, designers, and business partners distributed across the U.S. In this role, you will lead GameStop accessibility-focused activities as they relate to gamestop.com and GameStop NMAs. The ideal candidate will be customer-obsessed, highly collaborative, and passionate about creating customer experiences that are frictionless and delightful to ALL visitors. A passion for gaming and ecommerce are a plus!

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and business partners to ensure GameStop Ecommerce is accessible and inclusive.

• Deliver highly scalable customer-facing products and features, used by millions of GameStop customers.

• Participate in and provide input to technical decisions. Refine our front end frameworks, processes, and standards.

• Write scalable, performant, readable, and tested front-end code. Monitor, track, and optimize accessibility on an ongoing basis.

• Review code and provide meaningful feedback to peers to help build better solutions.

• Provide mentorship and guidance to peers and more junior engineers.

• Use data to provide input to prioritization decisions.

• Thrive in an ambiguous environment, be resourceful, and make tradeoffs to deliver customer impact.

• Exhibit a bias for action, constantly looking for ways to improve the customer experience.

• Establish strong working relationships across all levels and functions of the organization.

• Work on cutting edge technologies such as React, Redux, Webpack and ES6+.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent relevant experience

• 6+ years relevant work experience with building highly performant websites. This is in addition to degree/experience requirement above.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile development environment.

• Strong understanding of and experience with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Node, Vue.)

• Understanding of cross-browser support, caching, and optimization techniques for faster page load times.

• Knowledge of testing front-end applications and automated browser testing, especially for accessibility considerations.

• Strong customer focus, sense of ownership, and bias for action.

WHAT's GOOD TO HAVE

• Deep understanding of ReactJS and CSS.

• Ecommerce experience