Job Alert: Front-End Developer

Stone Arch Services has a client who is looking for a full-time Front-End Developer. This position requires someone who has experience in user experience and UI and who can help develop front-end code. This includes developing optimized/cross-platform front-end code in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks. This individual reports to the User Experience Design Manager, whose team has responsibility for user experience, interface design, front-end development, usability, and ADA 508 compliance.

• 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.

• 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, Java script).
• 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 mobile web sites or native mobile platforms preferred.
• 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.