UI Engineer

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Job Title: UI Engineer
Location-Type: 100% Remote
Start Date Is: ASAP
Duration: Long-Term Contract Position
Rate:$63-$70 Per hour W2

We're looking for an excited, experienced, passionate and professional Senior Frontend Web Developer to join our eCommerce team. You will be THE lead for front-end development and front-end performance engineering. You'll collaborate with our business partners and development teams to define, design, test and implement a highly usable, performance user experience for our B2B Web customers.

• Javascript: Javascript, jQuery, Dojo
• HTML/CSS: HTML 5, CSS3, responsive design, media queries, LESS, Bootstrap
• JSPs: You'll be modifying JSPs via the Eclipse IDE.
• Other: Websphere Commerce (Feature Pack 8), Websphere Commerce Composer (layouts, templates, widgets), Adobe Photoshop, SVN

Desired Skills And Experience

• You are self-motivated with a strong work ethic, a passion for learning, and drive to be the best at what you do.
• You like to take on challenges and love to collaborate.
• You're analytical and logical.
• You check out best practices and explore options before making a decision. You respectfully debate ideas on how to do things better and have a positive, get-it-done attitude once decisions have been made.
• You love what you do and love to be part of a team.
• Develop enterprise JavaScript applications, jQuery & Dojo.
• You know to analyze frontend performance issues.
• HTML & CSS: You can hand code elegant, semantic HTML and beautiful CSS.
• Usability / UX: You know and can explain why one UI solution is more useful than another. You think in terms of simplicity, task times, and usability for users with all levels of skill and experience (random visitors to heavy users).

• Experience in eCommerce (B2B or B2C)
• Experience with eCommerce platforms (Websphere Commerce, ATG, etc.)
• Experience with content management systems
• Adobe Photoshop
• Some formal usability / UX training or experience.

Design, develop (code), test, and debug applications. Provide experienced Ready-to-Serve and development subject matter expertise. Maintain, enhance and provide solutions for software applications. Provide development leadership in a functional area, module, or project.

• Works with stakeholders to perform application functionality gap analysis and feasibility studies.
• Leads development activities for a functional area, module, or project. Provides and documents technical design and specifications meeting business and functional requirements.
• Develops (code), implements, and maintains tools/applications. Ensures applications and systems possess sufficient controls.
• Performs unit testing prior to moving code/configuration to the QA process. Evaluates and research upgrades, patches, and new functionality. Researches defects and solve for root cause in applications.
• Assists in the development and definition of test plans and scripts for performance, regression, and user acceptance test plans; supports QA activities as required.
• Builds and maintains templates, rules, style sheets, workflows, data extractions and imports, interfaces, and object models.
• Analyzes applications for compliance with security protocols.
• Trains team members on areas of expertise. Participate in and lead peer reviews.
  Nature and Scope
• Identifies key barriers/core problems and applies problem-solving skills in order to deal creatively with complex situations. Troubleshoots and resolves complex problems. Makes decisions under conditions of uncertainty, sometimes with incomplete information, that produce effective end results.
• Independently performs assignments with instruction limited to results expected. Determines and develops approaches to solutions. Receives technical guidance only on unusual or complex problems or issues.
• May oversee the completion of projects and assignments, including planning, assigning, monitoring, and reviewing progress and accuracy of work, evaluating results, etc. Contributes to employees' professional development but does not have hiring or firing authority.
• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 5-8 years of experience in a related field; certification is required in some areas OR MS/MA and generally 3-5 years of experience in a related field. Certification is required in some areas.