Location: Boston, MA
URL: http://www.shoebuy.com
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:
- Creation of user interface/front-end design specs for new features. Specs consist of textual guidelines, flowcharts, sketches/wire-frames, and mockups.
- Converting mockups to hand-crafted code that is clean, robust, agile/flexible to changes during iteration phases, and compatible with major browsers.
- Refine existing front-end code to add new functionality and configurability, enhance visual appeal, and improve performance.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of web technologies including (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON and XML (5+ years).
- Experience and confidence working with JSP and Perl to integrate UI components with the application backend. (3+ years).
- Previous experience building UIs for medium-large web sites. (3+ years).
- Familiarity with graphics applications such as Adobe Photoshop, understanding of web image formats, alpha transparency, favicons, etc. (3+ years).
- Experience using source control software (distributed source control 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/integrate 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 sites for devices like iPhone/iPad.
Benefits:
- 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.
- Free Keurig coffee in a variety of flavors.
- Paid vacation, health, dental, life insurance, 401k, and disability.
Shoebuy is the largest retailer on the Internet focused on all categories of footwear and related apparel. Shoebuy has partnerships with 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.
To apply: Email resume and cover letter to jobs@shoebuy.com.
Source: FreshWebJobs