| Duties & Responsibilites : | The client is looking for a Front End Developer for a 6+ month contract to hire opportunity in the New Berlin, WI area.
Ideal candidates will have experience with:
• UI Development
• HTML5
• CSS3
• _javascript_
• ASP.Net
Brief Job Summary:
The Front-End Web Developer works directly with other digital team designers and programmers, responsible for maintaining current product features and leading the front-end engineering work for new product features and enhancements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Use high-performance _javascript_ and CSS to build and optimize user interfaces across a variety of platforms (desktop and mobile).
• Slice PSDs and convert them to HTML and CSS, using modern web standards and clean code.
• Providing accurate timing estimates on work.
• Contributing to the company development standards.
• Creating technical solutions for 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.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Excellent _javascript_, HTML/HTML5, CSS programming skills
• Strong experience building complex applications using object-oriented _javascript_, leveraging frameworks such as AngularJS, Backbone, EmberJS, etc.
• Experience working with modular coding practices (such as AMD) using frameworks like RequireJS or CommonJS
• Developing cross-browser and cross-platform compatible solutions
• Exceptional _javascript_ programming skills
• Knowledge of working with _javascript_ frameworks to create rich interactive content
• Experience integrating with server-side code to produce dynamic pages
• Good understanding of Web Accessibility
• Experience working with version control systems such as TFS, GIT, etc.
• Innate creative sensibilities with a high degree of sensitivity to design nuance
• Familiarity with Photoshop
• Excellent time management and multi-tasking skills in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
• A desire to learn more about creative and web technologies
Beneficial Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Working knowledge of ASP.NET MVC/C#/Visual Studio
• Experience with build systems like Grunt/Gulp
• Experience working with LESS/SASS
• Experience working with Web Sockets
Educational and Experience Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Systems or equivalent experience
Onsite interview is required. Candidates must be local to the Milwaukee area. |
