Senior UI Developer (Contract) Daily rate

SENIOR UI DEVELOPER (CONTRACT) DAILY RATE 

Key Responsibilities

- Develop new features and application enhancements as per Group instruction
- Write high-performance, reusable code for UI components.
- Design and implement high quality web user interfaces.
- Work on Single Page Application for Web Based Gaming
- Work closely with design teams to translate the Group's design vision to the web.
- Shape the technical landscape for web optimisation and performance for the web group, in accordance with Group guidelines.
- Evaluate new web technology and recommend to the Group adaptation of new techniques and libraries.

SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES

ESSENTIAL:

- Degree in Computer Science or IT related discipline.
- Fluency in English and good communication skills.
- 3+ years of experience building web applications.
- 2+ years of experience with client side JavaScript MV* toolsets (eg Knockout, Angular, Backbone, Ember)
- Strong experience with developing rich applications with HTML/CSS/JS.
- A passion for beautiful, pragmatic code paired with a strong sense of product design.
- Solid software development skills with experience building software developed in (at least one) Python, PHP, ASP.NET or Ruby.
- Good knowledge of cross platform rendering issues between major browsers and platforms.
- In depth knowledge of one or more of the following toolkits: JQuery, Dojo, Prototype, YUI.
- Knowledge of responsive design techniques with an emphasis on responsive design.

DESIRABLE:

- Experience with responsive layouts and designing mobile web applications and sites for mobile devices.
- Experience with Microsoft .NET Framework
- Knowledge of, but not reliance on, multiple JavaScript frameworks
- Ability to design load, benchmarking and performance test scenarios