Job Description

Responsibilities

• Front-end developer will be working in a team environment within a Pod, good communication is a must
• Need someone with attention to detail, take a design comp and notice the finer elements in there and turn those into code
• Agile environment
• Works with design and backend development
• To transform design compositions into expert-level interactive user experiences, ranging from proofs of concept and behavior demos to complex, high-fidelity prototypes for divisional or enterprise-level projects in order to allow the team to test ideas and make better design decisions
• Translates advanced design compositions into clean, standards-compliant, semantic markup and responsive webpages or native applications by understanding the layout and behavior of the design
• Works on large, complex projects under minimal direction
• Serves as a technical lead for junior team members
• Works with business owners, designers, information architects, and developers to implement a high quality user experience
• Recommends and effectively explains improvements in functionality, navigation, and UI design elements that enable users and internal business clients to achieve their goals
• Builds working relationships across divisions
• Leads prototyping efforts for testing and experimentation, including usability, and A/B and multivariate testing
• Oversees the project team on day-to-day operations of project deliverables and problem resolution
• Coordinates with Project Managers on project schedules, assignments, and workflow
• Works with IT to advocate for functional and efficient production client-side code
• Collaborates with designers to realize and finalize prescribed web designs and system behaviors
• Works with project teams to understand the business needs, and prototypes the design solutions as necessary
• Delegates work to other team members as necessary
• Effectively presents work to the project team, stakeholders, and department and senior management
• Maintains awareness of all of the available components and patterns, and works with project teams to identify new or revised components/patterns required to complete the designs
• Collaborates with CBD/PST for new and updated components/patterns
• Develops and continually enhances a client-side and server-side architecture for website prototyping
• Creates and maintains reusable prototyping libraries for design patterns, behavior patterns, and components
• Incorporates content management systems into the prototyping architecture
• Provides manager with realistic estimates of the level of effort needed to complete new projects and reviews estimates from other team members
• Tests webpages and conducts functional testing for team projects when needed
• Audits clients webpages to ensure they project the desired look and feel
• Completes applicable test documentation
• Performs code reviews of other team members’ work and recommends changes to improve code quality
• Researches, evaluates, and reports on the evolving technologies related to this role
• Continually searches for new ways to utilize current tools and researches new tools that can enhance workflow
• Works with the CTO and NGSA to get new tools approved for evaluation and standardization
• Develops plans for implementing new tools into workflow
• Recommends solutions that will be applicable across organizations
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Must hand code in JavaScript from scratch
• Def need hand coding of JavaScript, very strong level!
• Angular JS experience required and React is a big plus
• Angular experience
• Hand coding of JavaScript
• An engineer who has done their own testing
• Backend java testing j unit (is nice to have)
• Looking for someone who enjoys researching new technologies on their own – come to the table with things that are changing in the industry – new technologies that are out there
• People who follow the industry and keep up to date
• Will want to know how you stay up on technology
• Undergraduate degree in information technology or design, or the equivalent combination of training and experience
• Minimum five years industry/field specific experience
• Minimum of five years of front-end development
• Extensive experience with HTML5, CSS3, and javascript
• Experience with two or more javascript libraries, preferably Angular.js and jQuery
• Expert knowledge of web standards and cross-browser compatibility issues
• Extensive experience taking design comps and translating them into their web-based equivalents
• Experience with version control systems such as Subversion and/or Git, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop
• Expert knowledge of the following UI design practices and concepts: user-centered design, highly interactive interfaces, UI heuristics and principles, technical writing, business and user workflow, logical information organization and navigation, prototyping, and use case scenarios
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and multitasking skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including interviewing and presentation skills