Front End Developer - SASS/AJAX/Apache Tomcat

The Senior Front-End Developer will be part of a team supporting established projects and creating products from the ground up.

The ideal candidate is a team player and is passionate about learning and applying their technical skills and experience to solve real-world problems.

Responsibilities

Develop new user-facing features; Build reusable libraries for future use; Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs; Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability; Talk with users, Client their challenges, build innovative solutions; Keep up with current conventions in the web development community.; Research the latest technologies, identifying what is strength and what is fad.

Requirements

Understanding of cross-browser compatibility challenges; Proficient understanding web markup, including HTML5, CSS3; Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS; Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including JQuery; Good understanding of a more advanced JavaScript library/framework such as AngularJS.; Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX; Good understanding of the Agile process and tools that support the process, such as Jira.; Familiarity with web servers such as Apache, Nginx, etc.

Nice to have

Interest in design and/or user experience; Familiarity with mockup tools such as Sketch, Balsamiq, InVision, etc.; Understanding of modern aesthetic of visual style; Familiarity with graphic manipulation software such as Photoshop, Gimp, etc.