Job Description
My client is a market leading on-line travel company and is looking for a front-end developer reporting to the Head of User Experience who will help build the front end applications used by Affiliates and their customers. This Affiliate Network is the largest private label travel solution in the world, with an overall global retail business of over $1 billion.
I am looking for a result-oriented, proactive, and creative individual to be part of a very strong user experience team. You will play an active role in certain aspects of front end development, focusing on web site optimization and enhancement implementations from inception to release.
You must have solid web development/programming experience, using hand-coded JavaScript, XHTML, tableless CSS and JSP. I am looking for someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills and knowledge and skills to code for cross-browser compatibility.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain the presentation layer of affiliate websites and web applications
Participate in code reviews of other developers' work
May need to interface with 3rd parties on technical designs and issues
Present technical issues and their business impact to management
Work closely with various business teams, coordinating projects, and communicating technical issues using non-technical language
Qualifications:
Hand-coded standards-compliant XHTML
Proficient-level tableless CSS layouts
Proficient -level JavaScript and DOM API (Object oriented experience preferred)
JSP and familiarity with various tag libraries
Proficient-level knowledge of cross-browser, cross-platform compatibility and design constraints
Familiarity with the following is a strong plus: Ajax, JSON, Yahoo! Developer Library (or something similar), PERL or some other scripting language, WCAG accessibility guidelines
Image editing skills with Photoshop and other standard tools is a plus, but not required.
Ability to write clean, coherent, well-documented code and to follow established coding style guidelines
Excellent verbal and written skills, with proven ability to communicate complex ideas and to design and document projects in a clear, concise way
Critical Competencies
Problem Solving/Judgment
Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, communicates decisions to others.
Customer Focus
Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable
customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
Organizational Effectiveness
Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives, can sell projects and get things done in a complex multi-level organization.
General Competencies
Technical/Job Competence
Understands duties and responsibilities, has necessary job knowledge, has necessary technical skills, understands company mission/values, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues.
Results Focus
Targets and achieves results, sets challenging goals, prioritizes tasks, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability.
Productivity
Manages a fair workload, prioritizes tasks, develops good work procedures, manages time well, handles information flow and spends majority of time and resources on high priority items.
For more information on this opportunity please contact me with a copy of your CV.
Location
Salary
£50k
Reference Number
CM/10000964
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