Sr. Software Engineer

Job Description
Job Type: Contract (Right to Hire)

Title: Sr. Software Engineer

Location: Boston, MA

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

• Translate designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance

• 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:

• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, and conventional JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks

• Very solid HTML and CSS skills, knowing where and when to leverage technologies like HTML5 and CSS3

• Experience converting PSD's into static templates

• Thorough understanding of JavaScript and the DOM without using a library

• 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.

Thanks & Regards

Ashwin Kumar
Sr. Recruiter
Tel: 630-743-6106 Ext: 6158 , Fax: 248-479-0873
Email: ashwini.pooldandikar@computechcorp.com
Computech Corporation
100 W Kirby St, Detroit MI 48202
www.computechcorp.com

Qualifications
Javascript, CSS, HTML and good knowledge with MVC and Bootstrap.

Additional Information
Front end developer with execellent Javascript, CSS, HTML skills.