(Boston, MA)
Shoebuy is looking for a talented and creative User Experience/Front-End Developer to help build the next generation of its e-commerce platform. The ideal candidate has a passion for designing and implementing intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces for the web, and takes pride in producing lightweight, readable, and maintainable code.
Responsibilities:
- Assisting various business units with the creation of user interface and front-end design specs for new features and functionality. Specs may consist of a combination of textual guidelines, flowcharts, sketches/wire-frames, and detailed Photoshop mockups.
- Converting mockups to hand-crafted code that is clean, robust, agile/flexible to changes during iteration phases, and compatible with major browsers including IE6/7/8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Mobile Safari.
- Refine existing front-end code to add new functionality and configurability, enhance visual appeal, and improve overall performance including page load time optimization and UI responsiveness.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of web technologies including HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (including "unobtrusive" paradigm), jQuery or similar frameworks, AJAX, JSON and XML (5+ years).
- Experience and confidence working with Java (JSP) and Perl to integrate UI components with the application's backend. (3+ years).
- Previous experience building user interfaces for medium to large web sites and web applications. (3+ years).
- Familiarity with popular graphics applications including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar, and understanding of common image formats and their applications, alpha transparency, favicons, etc. (3+ years).
- Experience using popular source control software (distributed source control knowledge such as Mercurial or git a plus) (2+ years).
- Experience with UNIX environment and comfortable working in the terminal (3+ years).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work both independently and in a team-based environment under time-sensitive deadlines.
- Possess organizational and initiative skills, detail-oriented, and the ability to choose and integrate the correct technologies to solve problems and meet business requirements.
- Desire to continually stay up-to-date on the latest, emerging web technologies and trends.
Recommended:
- Well-developed portfolio of proven, client-facing work.
- Understanding of SEO best practices and semantic markup.
- Familiarity with next generation HTML 5 and CSS 3 technologies.
- Ability to write standards-based code that validates (XHTML/CSS/508).
- Experience with WordPress or similar CMS architectures.
- Experience developing mobile-friendly websites for popular handsets and devices including iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry.
Shoebuy is the largest retailer on the Internet focused on all categories of footwear and related apparel. Shoebuy has partnerships with over 1,000 manufacturers and represents over 800,000 products from top brands. Shoebuy is a subsidiary of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), the same company that owns and manages other great brands including Ask.com, Citysearch, evite, HSN, LendingTree, match.com, and ticketmaster.
Job Perks: - Conveniently headquartered in Boston's Financial District near Red and Green Lines, in a first-class building with views of the city and plenty of natural sunlight. - Keurig coffee machines with free coffee in a wide assortment of flavors. - Paid vacation, health, dental, life insurance, 401k, and disability.
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