Responsibilities:
- Develop new user-facing features
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems and rectify the issues
- Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
Mandatory Skills:
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, UI Development
- Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
- Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
- Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as ReactJS. The knowledge of any other frameworks like KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS, VueJS etc. is a plus and will be acceptable depending on the specific case.
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
- Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Photoshop is a plus.
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/Bitbucket.
Good to have skills: (Optional)
- Experience with wireframing tools like Balsamiq, Mockflow & Figma
- Being in sync with the current design trends across platforms.