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.