Company Description Position: Sr. Frontend Developer Location: NYC, NY Duration: 6+ months SKILLS & EXPERIENCE: • Have 5+ years of experience architecting and designing consumer focused based enterprise web applications • Strong knowledge of Java front-end technologies and frameworks • Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript, especially across all • Strong experiencing developing front end experiences across all devices especially mobile devices • Strong experience developing front end interfaces in a services oriented architecture • Excellent working knowledge of: • Front end application frameworks (e.g. backbone.js) • JQuery & JavaScript • HTML & CSS development (HTML5 and CSS3 preferred) • SASS experience • CSS Media Queries • Strong experience with UI data integration patterns, particularly AJAX and REST (JSON) • Solid Knowledge of HTML; HTML5, XHTML, HTML various modes and specifications, cross browser compatibility caveats, support and testing. • Knowledge of various HTML/HTML5 frameworks • Solid Knowledge of Web Styling using CSS3/CSS including knowledge of CSS frameworks e.g. SASS, LESS • Solid Knowledge of Client Side Web programming using JavaScript and Javascript MV* frameworks including - jQuery, jQueryUI, jQuery Mobile. - Experience in building jQuery Extensions is a plus - MV* Libraries and frameworks: AngularJS, Ember-JS, Sencha/Sencha-Touch, KendoUI, Backbone, Spine, etc. • Browser Testing and Debugging Tools: e.g. Charles, FireBug, WebKit/Chrome/FireFox Developer, Extensions etc. • Javascript Unit Testing and Frameworks: e.g. qUnit, jqUnit, JsUnit • Performance testing and tuning of web application: performance analysis tools e.g. ySlow and PageSpeed • Be able to do hands on development to build out development prototypes and reference applications • Experience with agile and scrum methodologies • Experience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment • e-Commerce development (Content and Catalog Management, Search, Shopping Cart, Wish List, Checkout) • Familiar with development in conjunction with an enterprise CDN (Akamai) • Be a self-starter that is outcome driven • Able to take the lead and display initiative • Experience with mobile web app development frameworks, wrappers and build systems: e.g PhoneGap and AppCelerator • Experience in developing enterprise grade mobile application front end is a big plus. Android and iOS development experience is a plus Skill and Role Summary: Responsive design enhancements to client’s current sites working with their in-house development and design team in a Scrum/agile fashion RESPONSIBILITIES: • Lead the mobile web and responsive design and development effort of UI / Web application architecture that is capable of supporting the latest mobile web development standards, frameworks and technologies • Help define mobile best practices from a front end standpoint • Help move existing code base to future friendly state • Ensure that all new projects are being designed and built with mobile as a core component • Lead the technical design and development of responsive web application that spans mobile, tablet, desktop and other digital form factor. • The Senior mobile developer / software engineer / web developer will be working on multiple projects and user interactions to mobile optimize existing ecommerce features as well as building out mobile optimized new site features/enhancements. • The Senior mobile developer will lead the technical design and build of Responsive web designs/applications with mobile-first/mobile-support best practices including caching, touch/gesture support and graceful degradation of design • The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about beautiful interfaces, fluid UI, front-end web technologies, RESTful APIs Additional Information