Description
UI Developer (Senior) - Agile, Javascript, AJAX, ASP, jQuery
Vero Solutions provide bespoke development, professional services and engineering resources to customers across the ICT sector in Ireland.
Our customer is the technology division of a global publishing and E-learning company with annual revenues in excess of 2.5 billion.
We require a Senior User Interface Developer for a key role in the design and development of a new learning management service. This is a key development role requiring very strong technical and communications skills. You will have responsibility for the technical implementation of UI, collaborating with a team of developers, test engineers, and a product stakeholder within an Agile environment.
You will be expected to work onsite with our client in their Dublin office. This is a hands on development role so requires a strong software development background.
Very strong UI skills are essential. Experience of the eLearning sector would be an advantage. Exposure to and knowledge of continuous integration, software release management techniques and interfacing with test engineers as part of any major software development project is expected.
This project is a 6 month contract with a high daily rate.
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership for component design, development and maintenance
- Responsible for code reviews and technical quality standards within the project team
- Carry out meticulous automated unit tests to ensure a high quality deliverable into QA
- Assist in defining structured practices especially in source code management, build and release management
- Participate in Usability reviews and lead improvements in Front End design
Essential:
Experienced UI developer with broad understanding of all the components of large consumer facing web applications.
Essential Skills:
- 4+ years UI development experience
- Developing dynamic, interactive UI (JSP, JQuery, AJAX, Javascript)
- Understanding of web technologies, usability, Object Oriented programming and development frameworks
- Very strong level of interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills
- Front End automated testing
Desirable Skills:
- Cross browser development
- Flex development
- Mobile web Experience of internationalisation
- Experience of developing accessible sites
- Knowledge of Unit Testing
- BlazeDS
- LDAP
- Unix Scripting
- Selenium
- PL/SQL
- JQuery
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration
- Atlassian suite of tools, Bamboo, Clover, Fisheye, Confluence and JIRA
- Practical knowledge of Source Control Management, specifically branching, tagging and merging of different code streams
- Exposure to the educational software environment and familiarity with industry standards and specifications
- Experience of agile development processes an advantage
- Possess excellent communication skills, the drive to succeed and work independently and on a team, with the ability to multi task, and deliver quality results
- M.Sc. in Computer Science or B.S. and equivalent experience