Description
Senior UI Developer
A large IT group, are embarking on major projects, and are ramping up their development teams. You will be based in their state of the art offices, in Dublin City Centre. Excellent contractor friendly environment awaits you. These contracts extend in 6 month terms, typically for 3 years+.
You will be a Senior UI Developer. You view Javascript as its own fully functional language and have experience with JS MVC Frameworks. The main project, and there are many new ones, coming live on a continuous basis, is based around designing and developing a truly ground breaking web application application product. Other live roles (vacancies) are based around design/developing applications for iOS and Chromebook devices.
The main project, and there are many new ones, coming live on a continuous basis, is based around designing and developing an application for iOS and Chromebook devices.
You will have responsibility for the technical implementation and architecture of the UI, collaborating with a team of developers, test engineers and a product stakeholder within an Agile environment.
Strong UI skills are essential. 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.
Requirements:
Duties. You will
- Participate in all phases of development from definition and design through implementation, debugging, testing and deployment to ensure all work is to the highest standards.
- Take ownership for component design, development and maintenance.
- Be 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.
Experience:
Essential:
- Experienced UI developer with broad understanding of all the components of large consumer facing web applications.
- 3+ years UI development experience.
- Experienced in developing dynamic, interactive UI (JSP, JQuery, AJAX, Javascript)
- Good understanding of web technologies, usability, Object Oriented programming and development frameworks.
- Requires a 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
- Experience of agile development processes an advantage