JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Responsibilities & Skills: • Develop new user-facing features • Deliver best-in-class HTML5/CSS3/JQuery front-end code across a broad array of interactive/responsive web and mobile projects. • Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs • Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability • Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end • Develop and test across multiple browsers, platforms and devices including smartphones and tablets. • Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders • Understand Agile methodology and instill best practices into the process. • Build reusable code and libraries for future use • Providing accurate timing estimates on work. • Contributing to documentation (instructional, pitch and technical specification) • Train other non-technical staff particularly designers. • Contributing to the company development standards working closely with the Head of Development or Technical Director. • Discussing technical solutions with clients and providing innovative new ideas to solutions. • Maintaining a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability, and emerging technologies, and keep team members informed as appropriate, with a view to incorporating these in future projects and staying ahead of the market and position yourself and the company as a digital specialist. • Constantly seeking to develop yourself by learning new technologies and keeping abreast of your markets developments. • Excitement about emerging web technologies. Required Technical Qualifications: • Overall IT experience 9+ years. • Frontend development experience 6 years. • Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 • Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery • Proficient understanding of responsive web development frameworks such as Bootstrap • Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS,NodeJSetc; • Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX • Basic understanding of data exchange formats such as JSON,XML etc; • Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS • Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus. • Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. • Basic understanding of semantic markup. • Basic Knowledge of latest tools, technologies, frameworks such as HTML5 BoilerPlateetc; • Basic understanding of PHP • Understanding of OOP • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as {Git / Mercurial / SVN} • Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them. • Good understanding of Web Accessibility