Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stone Arch Services has a client seeking a full-time Front-End Developer. The role focuses on developing optimized, cross-platform front-end code and collaborating on user experience, interface design, usability, accessibility, and web-based software. Responsibilities include translating wireframes into production-ready interfaces, maintaining code integrity and web standards, creating prototypes, optimizing websites, and communicating project status and risks.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with a user experience designer on bringing mockups or wireframes through development to final delivery. This includes graphics optimization and the use of HTML, CSS, JavaScript / jQuery, XML, and Web Services
- Manage code integrity of the sites and other projects to ensure cohesive development amongst the team
- Work with product managers, user experience analysts, and designers to understand customer needs and business requirements and create functional prototypes to address those needs
- Follow the integration within the design/development team of industry trends with regard to front-end technologies and techniques
- Be involved in both the graphic and user experience design of interfaces for many of the web properties and mobile web properties
- Partner with business units (internal clients) to understand specific business goals, customer needs, and opportunities to improve business performance through the website
- Introduce innovative development processes and optimization to increase site productivity, traffic to specific/desired areas, positive user experiences and business results
- Ensure that material in their software is accessible to all groups including those with disabilities and design and develop public sites for search engine optimization
- Develop and maintain the production, graphical, and compression standards for the highest possible quality, navigational ease, consistency in look and feel, and content architecture of companie’s websites and web-based software
- Communicate status and risks to project leaders and business partners
- Collaborate with fellow developers as mentors to learn needed skills. Their software is complex and will require collaboration with heavier developers to understand web services and capabilities
Skills
- Associate's degree in design, computer science, web development, or related field
- 5+ years of web development experience from site concept to launch, with a proven track record of meeting deadlines
- Knowledge of front-end web standards technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
- Knowledge of libraries including jQuery and front-end frameworks such as Bootstrap
- Some working knowledge of ASP and SQL is a plus
- Experience in design software (Photoshop, Illustrator) required
- Ability to translate business needs into creative web-based solutions and to deliver business goals and project objectives with limited supervision
- Strong understanding of all aspects of web development, including strategy, design, usability, and implementation
- Strong knowledge of web usability and interface design principles; advanced knowledge of site navigation and information architecture, browser limitations and solutions for cross platform usability; ability to define, concept and create use-cases, site-maps and wire-frames of site schematics
- Experience with design for personalization and content management templates
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Strong prioritization and interpersonal skills to balance multiple demands
- Ability to grasp new concepts quickly and an extreme attention to detail
- Experience with mobile web sites or native mobile platforms preferred
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