Senior Front-End Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Builds software applications – Follows coding standards, builds appropriate unit tests, integration tests and deployment scripts

• Assists in defining software architectures – Collaborates with leads to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, learns the applications capabilities

• Communicates continually with the project teams – Explains progress on the development effort

• Owns success – Takes responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions

• Translates designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance

• Contributes to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies

 

Requirements:

— Deep understanding of JavaScript core (5+ years experience)

— Write high-quality, clean and modular code

— Solid knowledge of HTML5 + CSS3

— Responsive design development

— Preprocessors (Stylus/SASS/LESS + Jade)

— JavaScript templating

— AngularJS (2+ years experience), BackboneJS or other similar MV* framework

— Gulp/Grunt/NPM task runners

 

Used technologies on our products:

— AngularJS as a primary JS framework

— Stylus + Jade preprocessors (no CSS frameworks)

— npm, bower, gulp, yeoman

— Canvas (complex data structures displaying)

— OAuth2

— Amazon Cloud hosting (ec2)

 

Pluses:

• Server side development experience (NodeJS preferred)

• Multithreaded JavaScript (web-workers)

• Asynchronious JavaScript

• Unit testing, e2e testing (Karma, Jasmine, Protractor)

• JS performance optimization and profiling

• AMD, CommonJS

• Canvas, SVG

• Experience with source control (SVN/GIT/HG/etc)

 

Education:

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field preferred.

English level – Upper intermediate.