Senior UI Engineer

Senior UI Developer Job Description

Duties:

The Senior Developer is a member of our client's UI development team. This team builds and maintains mission-critical video production systems. Sample projects include media asset management systems, digital toolkit, digital video archives, and catalog/search systems. The Senior Developer works as a Scrum team member, applying practical experience in the key disciplines of software engineering -- not limited to object-oriented design and programming, configuration management, testing, and more -- to deliver incremental but complete pieces of business value to stakeholders.

This is a six month (6) contract to hire opportunity. We will not consider third party candidates. Relocation assistance is not available for this role.

- Develop software in modern enterprise-class languages and development platforms, with a strong emphasis on JavaScript. Embrace emerging UI technologies. Integrate with enterprise systems. (50%)
- Develop software confidence and reliability by creating testing artifacts, develop tooling and have communication needed to ensure modified codebases are releasable (20%)
- Provide third tier support for production issues and working with other peer teams. Also, provide technical leadership for new emerging technologies and mentoring junior developers (10%)
- Agile/Scrum planning and process improvement (10%)
- Architectural planning and design  (10%)

Qualifications:

- BS in Computer Science, Software or other Engineering or related field preferred
- A minimum of seven years of software development experience, with a strong focus on application development
- Minimum five years of object-oriented JavaScript with knowledge of how to navigate a document, select DOM elements, create animations, handle events, and develop Ajax applications.
- Strong working knowledge of JQuery, CSS, and HTML5 ensuring multi-browser capability.
- Strong experience in non-procedural programming, or applying functional-style concepts professionally considered a plus.
- Strong experience in procedural programming like Java or Scala is a plus considered a plus.
- Strong working knowledge of XML/XSL/JSON, HTML, and associated modern technologies
- Have previous experience, of at least three years, building medium- to large-scale, "mission critical" "high availability" production systems that directly support essential business, and technical, or operational functions.
- One year of experience with digital video and audio systems development is a plus
- Demonstrable excellent design skills and the related strengths in clearly articulating difficult technical concepts and information
- Can critically evaluate code as a method of learning, and knows when and how to safely refactor code/artifacts
- Three or more years experience developing systems with enterprise class including strong working knowledge of SQL and modern ORM tools
- Candidates capable of demonstrating experience in one or more of the following areas strongly preferred: release management of enterprise-class system code and artifacts, data and schema modelling, user interface development, human factors, build/deployment management, asynchronous/high-latency programming concepts.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (examples include Scrum or Kanban) required. Must demonstrate considerable enthusiasm for the practices that allow for continuous deployment and incremental delivery of business value.
- Should exhibit good system engineering skills (eg, common industry database design and practices, application architectures, operating systems concepts, networking, etc.) in addition to skills in application development.

UI Developer, Front End Developer, Presentation Layer Developer, User Interface Developer, Agile, Scrum, JavaScript, JQuery, DOM, Ajax, HTML5, CSS, Front End Developer, Front End Coding, DOM Scripting