Frontend Developer

Description:

Participates in the design, development and implementation of complex applications, often using new technologies.

Required Qualifications/Skills

•Experience with GIT distributed version control, branching/merge strategies, and Bitbucket

•A solid understanding of Front-end design patterns and principals: Responsive Web Design, MVC, BEM, OOCSS, Event Delegation, Modules, Singletons, Prototypes, Mixins, Publish/Subscribe, XHR, Server-side vs client-side, etc.

•A solid understanding of AJAX and how to fetch data from a service endpoint that can be used to render dynamic web content

•A solid understanding of semantic HTML and CSS3 (SASS), including layouts, responsive design, and accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

•Experience with Front End and accessibility tools: Devtools, Web Fiddler, Visual Studio (or preferred IDE), JAWS, Voiceover, Talkback

•Comfortable reviewing a UX wireframe and building corresponding UI efficiently; Works with UX partners and identifies design risks proactively to deliver applications for high-traffic websites

•Familiarity with performance optimization tools (i.e. lighthouse) and techniques (image compression, lazy loading, bundling, sprites, etc.)

•Familiarity with Node, NVM and NPM

•Experience with Vanilla JS (ES6) and modern Javascript frameworks and libraries (examples - Vue, React, Polymer, Angular, Handlebars, JQuery, and others).

•Agile tools (Bitbucket)

Desired Qualifications

•Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

•5 -6 years of hands-on software development experience

•Exposure to Agile Methodologies

•Ability to communicate complex technology solutions to diverse teams namely, technical, business and management

•Good interpersonal communication skills for tech and business conversations – ability to work in a collaborative/team environment

•Good analytical skills to break down requirements, solve complex problems

•Provide feedback in code reviews for improvements

•Bring improvement ideas to the team and be capable of driving the execution/implementation