Job Description

Responsibilities

• Duration: 12 months+ assignment
• This front-end developer will develop applications using advanced JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5, working closely with our Ruby and Java engineers and our user experience team
• Collaborate with UX and product owners to define new features
• Create sleek customer-facing, complex, highly-interactive, web applications and services
• Create code that cleanly segregates model, presentation, and business logic
• Design and implement reusable components and plug-ins
• Enforce business logic on the client
• Work with the user experience team and product owners to refine product flow and user interaction
• Active contributions to continual improvement of process and product
• Work with our quality engineers to develop and automate tests

Requirements

• Treat JavaScript as a first-class citizen, with an emphasis on the "good parts" and unit testing
• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Self-motivated, creative, and detail oriented
• Craftsmanship level commitment to quality software
• Skilled in advanced JavaScript/CoffeeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of Javascript libraries like jQuery, requirejs, prototype, Mustache or underscore
• Familiarity with gruntjs
• npm, and node.js
• Familiarity with MVC frameworks like Backbone.js, Ember, or Angularjs
• Experience with Agile methodologies including Scrum or Kanban
• Actively experimenting with new technologies