Web Developer and GUI Developer / Designer
We’re looking for a super talented Web Developer and GUI Developer / Designer to design a visually stunning experience for our customers.
This is your chance to join a talented, ambitious team that is creating truly novel technologies and products that will change the way people see themselves and the world.
Important self assessment:
- Do you have a passion for web interfaces and user-centric design?
- Would you rate your knowledge and understanding of usability best practices and principles as “Exceptional”?
- Do you have mad visual design skills?
- Can you take a complex concept and distill it to something my 85yr old grandmother in Ibadan would understand?
-Are you a self-starter who prefers fast paced environments with truly hard problems to solve?
- Are you crazy smart, dynamic, creative, results-oriented, and an “outside the box” thinker, as well as a nice person?
- Are you a little turned off we used the phrase “outside the box” in the previous question?
- Do you play well with others, specifically Product Managers and Engineers?
- Does working for a company that will transform the way we think about content delivery get you excited?
If you answered yes to the above keep reading below.
Role Requirements:
We are looking for a GUI Engineer with 3+ years of experience developing cutting-edge GUIs. We're looking for someone that can bring a strong UI vision and develop high-quality software at a fast pace.
You should enjoy working with small, tight-knit teams of highly skilled developers. You should be a passionate engineer with a broad range of programming skills, however you should have recent experience with some of the latest best of breed UI technologies, such as: GWT, JQuery, Prototype, MVC-style frameworks (Spring MVC), AJAX, RIA (Flash/Flex) , Rapid Web Development frameworks (Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Groovy/Grails) and/or Web Services (REST, SOAP).
Responsibilities:
* Design, develop, and lead our new end user, developer and administrator GUI initiatives
* Provide recommendations on feature set and technical infrastructure for projects and new system modules
* User experience design, including wireframes, storyboards, and use cases development
* Find opportunities to take advantage of existing platforms & communities to improve our products
Skill Requirements:
* BS in Computer Science or relevant experience
* A portfolio of relevant work
* 3+ years experience developing cutting edge GUIs
* Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
* Be motivated to work independently and over-deliver
* Communicate early and often with team members and management
* Experience with Business Intelligence or Search UI development a plus.
* A history of successful delivery and career progression in software development.
* Prior experience building scalable solutions.
* The experience and skills to understand our entire scope of products and process.
* A track record of collaboratively designing, developing and testing database driven web applications.
Additional Information:
Technologies We Work With
* HTML (standards compliant), CSS, Javascript, PHP, PERL, C, C+, SQL
* AJAX Libraries – Prototype, JQuery, DWR
* Grails, Velocity, MVC.NET, GWT, Spring MVC
* Adobe Flash, Flex, AIR and Actionscript
* Java 6
* Spring
* GUI Testing Tools: Selenium, HTTPUnit, HTMLUnit, GUnit, FlexMonkey
If interested please send your resume and cover letter to: [email protected]
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