5+-8+ years’ experience writing custom HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Expertise writing semantic, modular front end code using HTML5, CSS3, and W3C coding practices a must. Understanding the concepts of progressive enhancement, mobile first and responsive design are highly encouraged. Some level of experience working with various front-end frameworks and the concepts behind them is required; for CSS, we look mainly for SASS or LESS. For JS we focus on MV frameworks such as React, Backbone, Angular and Ember.
Additional requirements:
- Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
- Expertise in performance optimization using tools such as YSlow or PageSpeed
- Experience navigating Photoshop and slicing/saving images for the web.
- Experience writing simple SQL statements (SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE)
- Experience using jQuery
- Experience using JSP/JSTL or equivalent server side templating language (PHP, ASP)
- A firm grasp of SEO / SEM best practices
Personality/Behaviors:
- We like people who stays up to date with current technologies. They read development blogs, newsletters, follow other notable developers on Twitter, etc.
- We like people who are passionate about what they do. They have side projects, their own website, and contribute to Github projects.
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