Sr. Software Engineer

Client is a large Financial Services company.

Job Type:
Contract (Right to Hire)

Title:

Sr. Software Engineer

Job Description :

This multi-faceted role offers the individual the opportunity to have tremendous impact on a number of web initiatives, starting with the rollout of a new set of Intranet/Collaboration tools. The candidate would also be joining the group at a point at which they will have significant direct impact on the evolution of our new User Experience practice and front end development methods broadly.

Responsibilities

• Build software applications – Follow coding standards, builds appropriate unit tests, integration tests and deployment scripts
• Assist in defining software architectures – Collaborate with leads to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, learns the applications capabilities
• Communicate continually with the client and project teams – Explain progress on the development effort
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, architecture or new technologies

Required Skills :

• Very solid HTML and CSS skills, knowing where and when to leverage technologies like HTML5 and CSS3
• Experience converting PSD's into static templates
• Familiarity with client-side MVC frameworks. Specifically Backbone (Angular knowledge a strong plus).
• Skilled in using a CSS preprocessor to speed up development (LESS, SCSS/Compass, etc)
• Expertise with Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery , and a CSS preprocessor (ex. LESS)
• Knowledge of web standards and page-weight optimization a must
• Experience with responsive/adaptive design is required.
• Experience consuming, JSON-based APIs.
• Experience in Drupal (or similar CMS) is a strong plus
• Understanding of software design patterns and testing methodologies is a plus
• Familiarity with at least one server-side MVC Framework (ROR, Django, etc) and how it relates to server and client side web development is a plus.
• Must be self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline and 5+ years of relevant work experience.