Senior Front End Developer - Javascript/Jquery/Backbone.js/HTML5/CSS3

SENIOR FRONT END DEVELOPER - JAVASCRIPT/JQUERY/BACKBONE.JS/HTML5/CSS3 

Senior Front End Developer with strong JavaScript and experience of responsive/adaptive design and development, is required for a 6 month contract with a leading retail client of a Digital Agency. Any Development lead/team lead experience would be desirable.  THIS ROLE WILL BE SPLIT 3 DAYS IN LONDON AND 2 DAYS IN HERTFORDSHIRE.  They require a Front End Developer who is able to work in an Agile/Scrum environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES/SKILLS:

- Standards compliant XHTML, CSS2 AND CSS3, HTML5

Experience  of responsive/adaptive design and development - STRONG JAVASCRIPTJQUERY, BACKBONE AND UNIT TESTING; JASMINE
- Provide Product requirements input and UI expertise
- Involvement in full development life cycle; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment and maintenance
- Experience of applying and working with Agile development methodologies and Test driven development
- General web related questions - DOCTYPES, separation of concerns, quirks mode, cross browser development
- HTML - HTML5, Semantics, SEO
- CSS - Responsive, specificity
- JavaScript - OO development, inheritance, prototype, object types, JS performance tweaks and tools
- Accessibility - screen readers, ALT t