Senior Developer - Front End

Job Summary
You will be responsible for implementing visual and interactive elements within a web application for the customers to view and engage with. Ensure web designs are in alignment with the user requirements and the websites are visually appealing and optimized to attain maximum efficiency and usability.

Job Objectives

• Translate customer needs into functional, interactive and visually appealing web applications
• Ensure applications are optimized both in technology and appeal while providing a great user experience on desktop and mobile.

Job Responsibilities
Design & Development

• Define the structure and design of web pages.
• Develop and implement user-friendly interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for webpages.
• Develop new user-facing features and implement visually appealing and interactive elements in the web application to enhance user experience.
• Ensure cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
• Develop the best UI/UX elements/practices for both desktop and mobile view.
• Develop the light-optimized markups based on UI/UX team output
• Develop bundling and minification for website static files.
• Follow SEO best practices in term of HTML and meta tags structure
• Follow accessibility and usability standards while ensuring that Mada requirements are well covered

Collaboration & Maintenance

• Analyze website performance by tracking key metrics and proactively resolving issues.
• Optimize our web applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Maintain brand consistency throughout the design.
• Troubleshoot and debug front-end issues.
• Collaborate with Backend developers to represent the data coming from backend API’s and integrate front-end code with server-side logic Collaborate with designers to translate UI/UX designs into code.
• Collaborate with QA/QC team to fix the reported UI issues.

Team Management

• Assist team members in work activities and guide them in enhancing technical knowledge
• Guide team members’ in enhancing technical knowledge by highlighting the industry standards implementation Job Requirements
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

Job Requirements
Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field

Previous Work Experience

• Overall, 3 - 6 years’ experience using JavaScript, CSS and jQuery
• Excellent knowledge of browser troubleshooting and debugging practices and techniques
• Strong knowledge of

1. CSS – Bootstrap
2. CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS

• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Good understanding of:

1. Web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
2. Advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, particularly those in AngularJS, are essential for modern web development.
3. Asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX and code versioning tools, such as {{Git / Mercurial / SVN}}
4. Cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them, and SEO principles and ensuring that applications adhere to SEO principles.
5. Accessibility and usability standards, and core web and browser concepts (e.g., how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
6. Web page life cycle and server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to imbibe the end-to-end web development process.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and new software programs and languages.
• Create good design and usability.
• Strong understanding of social media sharing best practices
• Good Knowledge in Google AMP and image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image.
• Familiar with web design tools like (Figma, Adobe XD and Zeplin)
• Knowledge of CWP and/or/CSM is a plus.

Note

• This is a fully remote position 
• This position is a 6-month contract. Candidates should be available for the full duration of the contract.