Job Description

8304 | Principal Web Development Engineer (Front End)
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
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Our client's front-end engineers design user experiences across a wide variety of devices, including set top boxes, tablets and phones. The company is hiring inventive and adaptable web application developers with Javascript, HTML 5, and CSS 3 skills. The ideal candidate will have experience writing cutting-edge, dynamic Javascript-based applications.

We're especially interested in your abilities with some or most of the following:

1. Implement and enhance the frontend design and user experience from end-to-end
2. Work well across functions to create and execute the best product
3. Assist in the planning of new features
4. Work in an Agile environment

Required Skills & Qualifications

1. Superior knowledge of JavaScript and supporting libraries with multiple years of experience in Javascript application development
2. 8+ years of Javascript development experience
3. Deep understanding of HTML 5 and CSS 3 and their capabilities
4. Experience writing dynamic web applications that use AJAX techniques
5. Extensive use of JSON or other data-interchange formats
6. Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills
7. Self-motivated, self-directed, detail-oriented and organized
8. Having technically mentored and led small teams
9. Solid coding practices including peer code reviews and unit testing
10. Experience in agile development

Additional Skills

These additional skills are not essential, but would be of additional value:

1. Experience writing server-side APIs, especially in Node.js
2. Familiarity with and understanding of one or more of the following: Angular.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js
3. Knowledge of MongoDB
4. REST, web services
5. Experience with source control software (GIT, SVN)
6. Experience working with Jira issue tracking tool
7. Experience writing software for an embedded environment
8. Experience using and creating vector-based artwork
9. Artistic talent and design sense

Education / Certification

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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