Senior Front End Web Developer Silicon Valley

Senior Front End Web Developer

 

 

Job ID: Job-2544

Job Title:      Senior Front End Web Developer

location:       Silicon Valley, CA

Jobtype:        Consultant

Rate:   $70 - $75 p/h

       

Required:

CSS, HTML, responsive websites, JavaScript, an eye for UI Design, a feel for UX, a desire to learn, and a love of working in an agile-ish environment.

 

Big plus if you have experience with:

Rails, Haml, Sass, Compass, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, Ajax, Handlebars.js, Underscore.js, Highcharts.js, message busses (postal.js), state machines (machina.js).

 

About the Role:

We are looking for an exceptional engineer to join our front-end team to help build products powered by our technology platform. We have consumer facing products that extend from api's, widgets, mobile and a lot more. You will be part of the small team that is responsible for building the best in class consumer facing products and evolution of our product. If you consider yourself a strong Front End Developer with an eye for design then you are the candidate we want!

 

What you need for this position:

Strong with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a deep understanding of how to make everything work harmoniously together

5+ years experience writing javascript, CSS, and HTML

Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility with progressive enhancement

You understand browser performance and how to prevent problems from arising and how to fix them if they do

Practical knowledge of REST and working with APIs, developing APIs. etc.

Implement new features and optimize existing ones

Work closely with product managers, back-end engineers and operations

Knowledgeable foundation in interaction design principles

Ability to work through product ideas by fast prototyping and quick iterations

PASSIONATE about realizing great design through code. You have opinions about the products you work on and aren't afraid to defend them / be criticized / be wrong. You know how to be confident and consultative at the same time

Ability to go off-book in JavaScript. You were doing front-end web development well before there were good JavaScript libraries out there (5+ years), so you are comfortable hand rolling the last 10% in JavaScript when that's the right thing to do

Experience writing code that interacts with a large, complex back end and working with talented server engineers - you need to be able to at least read complex server side code if not write it well. You must have some experience working in a server side scripting language, it would be great if it was Ruby since it’s our back-end language of choice

Experience with mobile application development a plus (Android, iOS, Windows 8)

 

What you'll be doing:

You enjoy pair programming, and understand that in the long run it makes for cleaner code, fewer bugs and better teams

Bridge the gap between design and technology, working with visual and interaction designers to implement and maintain pixel perfect user interfaces

Code. Make browsers SUBMIT to your will. You know best practices cold and are on top of bleeding edge techniques. Relish in the role of being a front-end specialist. We will look to you to solve hard problems and make our front-end more reliable, predictable, elegant and awesome

Share. We have weekly lunch-and-learns. We want you to share your expertise, making everyone else better and facilitating constant learning

Take pride in the quality of your work, continuously deploying test-driven code, delighting customers and making a difference every day

 

PLEASE QUOTE YOUR BEST RATE

 

Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE

 

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