Front-End Developer

Key Accountabilities

Conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasksDetermines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach in UI development with reuse and modular development in considerationEngages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasksDesigns and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activitiesConducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programsProvides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reportingProvides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high quality standardAbility to understand business requirements and visual / UX designs to frame a development approach and task planAbility to prepare a frontend development task plan and estimates based on business requirements and visual designsExperienced in Java Scripts, JQuery and Angular JS libraries (1.x/2.x) and frameworks and has the ability to apply these frameworks in project requirements for front end developmentAbility to recommend and image scaling in frontendPerformance tuning of frontend codebase

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

About 3 – 5 years expertise in application development including:Experienced in HTML5, CSS3, LESSAbility to develop frontend screens of different viewports from ground upRESTful services, AJAX, JavaScript / JQuery and Angular1.x/2.xWorking with web services/REST, web architectures including SEO, mobile web considerations and responsive web designSource control management tool, such as TFS, GIT, Stash, GruntGood understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAXProficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.Excellent knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies in Agile delivery, practices, and SCRUM methodologyDesign and build components, templates and screens using front end templating techniques such as HandlebarsAbility work in frontend based build pipeline using Grunt / Gulp and TFS or any other build toolsSolving technical problems related to content management such as search result accuracy, dynamic content linking, formatting, image scaling and personalization.Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field gained through 8 or more years of experience in a similar development environmentSignificant knowledge of object-oriented programming, applying SOLID principals and design patternsExcellent knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies including agileProven track record in integration and development of distributed software applications including cloud-based applicationsHighly skilled in analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting, debuggingStrong verbal and written communication skills