Job Type: Contract (Right to Hire)
Title: Sr. Software Engineer
Location: Boston, MA
Job Description:
This multi-faceted role offers the individual the opportunity to have tremendous impact on a number of web initiatives, starting with the rollout of a new set of Intranet/Collaboration tools. The candidate would also be joining the group at a point at which they will have significant direct impact on the evolution of our new User Experience practice and front end development methods broadly.
Responsibilities
- Translate designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance
- Build software applications – Follow coding standards, builds appropriate unit tests, integration tests and deployment scripts
- Assist in defining software architectures – Collaborate with leads to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, learns the applications capabilities
- Communicate continually with the client and project teams – Explain progress on the development effort
- Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, architecture or new technologies
Required Skills:
- Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, and conventional JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks
- Very solid HTML and CSS skills, knowing where and when to leverage technologies like HTML5 and CSS3
- Experience converting PSD's into static templates
- Thorough understanding of JavaScript and the DOM without using a library
- Familiarity with client-side MVC frameworks. Specifically Backbone (Angular knowledge a strong plus).
- Skilled in using a CSS preprocessor to speed up development (LESS, SCSS/Compass, etc)
- Expertise with Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery , and a CSS preprocessor (ex. LESS)
- Knowledge of web standards and page-weight optimization a must
- Experience with responsive/adaptive design is required.
- Experience consuming, JSON-based APIs.
- Experience in Drupal (or similar CMS) is a strong plus
- Understanding of software design patterns and testing methodologies is a plus
- Familiarity with at least one server-side MVC Framework (ROR, Django, etc) and how it relates to server and client side web development is a plus.
- Must be self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline and 5+ years of relevant work experience.
Thanks & Regards
Ashwin Kumar
Sr. Recruiter
Tel: 630-743-6106 Ext: 6158 , Fax: 248-479-0873
Email: [email protected]
Computech Corporation
100 W Kirby St, Detroit MI 48202
www.computechcorp.com
Javascript, CSS, HTML and good knowledge with MVC and Bootstrap.
Front end developer with execellent Javascript, CSS, HTML skills.
