front end web developer

We are recruiting an experienced front end web developer to design and build our client facing portal. We are committed to developing a top quality customer experience and workflow and need a passionate professional to continue refining the vision and make it a reality. We expect the candidate will take the current vision and make it their own and truly own our customer experience on the web. The candidate will work closely with the CTO to deliver on our vision and develop a set of tools that enable our analysts succeed and provide critical intelligence to our clients. Given that we are a security and intelligence firm, security is a primary requirement along with high quality design and ease of use for our customers.

Core Duties:

• Design and build a secure, compelling, client workflow and experience
• Evaluate and select the core technologies needed to deliver a secure, responsive, intuitive client application
• Work closely with our back-end team to develop the necessary interfaces, queries, reports, etc.
• Constantly evolve and improve our client interface
• Work with an agile team to solve problems and deliver results
• Ensure our client interface is mobile friendly and able to be delivered in multiple languages

Detailed responsibilities:

• Full cycle of JavaScript front-end development. Includes deep understanding of the DOM, JSON, object-oriented JavaScript, and common JavaScript libraries
• Implementing AJAX-driven interface. This includes extensive knowledge of web technologies such as HTTP, AJAX, and REST
• Evaluating and utilizing frameworks for front end development, such as jQuery, Stylus, Browserify, Handlebars, Backbone
• Maintaining complex JavaScript front-end projects. This includes the ability to structure JavaScript code, delay loading, and execution optimization
• Manage the optimization, minification, and bundling of our framework/libraries using tools like Browserify, Uglify, Node, Gulp.js, etc.

Skills:

• Expertise in HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript with client/server side MVC frameworks (e.g. jQuery, Prototype, Ember, Backbone, Angular, etc.)
• Expertise in REST/JSON/AJAX
• Expertise in Responsive Design
• Experience with agile development and version control systems
• Strong demonstrated UI design skills
• Understanding of W3C standards and experience in addressing cross-browser and platform compatibility issues.
• Understanding of Internationalization and implementing multi-lingual web applications.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with the Elastic stack is a big plus!