Front-End Developer

About the role

The Front‑End Developer will build and maintain the customer portal for GradCity’s new booking system, working closely with a project manager, product and design stakeholders, QA, and a backend engineer in weekly sprints to deliver clean, performant, and scalable interfaces for complex booking and account workflows. This contract role requires autonomous, collaborative work in a fast‑paced environment.

About the company

GradCity is the industry leader in student travel, creating senior trips and group travel experiences for graduating high‑school students and their families. With over three decades of experience and more than 500,000 travelers served, it provides end‑to‑end travel programs that include destination planning, booking support, flexible payment options, exclusive events, customer care, and on‑site support.

Requirements

• Proven experience building front‑end features for complex web applications, SaaS products, customer portals, or internal business systems.
• Strong experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern front‑end framework such as React and TypeScript.
• Experience working with APIs, dynamic data, forms, account flows, and multi‑step user journeys.
• Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, browser compatibility, and front‑end performance.
• Experience working in a product development environment with designers, developers, QA, and stakeholders.
• Comfortable using tools such as Notion, Marker, GitHub, Jira, or similar systems for documentation, development, ticketing, and bug tracking.
• Strong attention to detail with ability to anticipate edge cases and make thoughtful decisions within complex user workflows.
• Interest in modern front‑end architecture, web performance optimization, and building intuitive, AI‑enhanced user experiences.
• Experience with travel technology, booking platforms, reservation systems, payments, or customer portals is a major plus.