Front End Developer

Summary

Join our team as a front-end web developer to design and develop visually appealing and interactive web applications. You will be responsible for translating customer needs into functional applications, ensuring cross-browser compatibility, and optimizing for speed and scalability. Collaboration with designers, backend developers, and QA is crucial. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, 3-6 years of experience with JavaScript, CSS, and jQuery, and advanced knowledge of ReactJS. You will also need to be proficient in various web technologies and best practices, including SEO and accessibility standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Overall, 3 - 6 years’ experience using JavaScript, CSS and jQuery
• Excellent knowledge of browser troubleshooting and debugging practices and techniques
• Strong knowledge of: CSS – Bootstrap
• CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Good understanding of: Web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Advanced experience in ReactJS
• Asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX and code versioning tools, such as {{Git / Mercurial / SVN}}
• Cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them, and SEO principles and ensuring that applications adhere to SEO principles
• Accessibility and usability standards, and core web and browser concepts (e.g., how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
• Web page life cycle and server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Ability to imbibe the end-to-end web development process
• Keep abreast of industry trends and new software programs and languages
• Create good design and usability

Responsibilities

• Define the structure and design of web pages
• Develop and implement user-friendly interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for webpages
• Develop new user-facing features and implement visually appealing and interactive elements in the web application to enhance user experience
• Ensure cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility
• Develop the best UI/UX elements/practices for both desktop and mobile view
• Develop the light-optimized markups based on UI/UX team output
• Develop bundling and minification for website static files
• Follow SEO best practices in term of HTML and meta tags structure
• Follow accessibility and usability standards while ensuring that Mada requirements are well covered
• Analyze website performance by tracking key metrics and proactively resolving issues
• Optimize our web applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Maintain brand consistency throughout the design
• Troubleshoot and debug front-end issues
• Collaborate with Backend developers to represent the data coming from backend API’s and integrate front-end code with server-side logic
• Collaborate with designers to translate UI/UX designs into code
• Collaborate with QA/QC team to fix the reported UI issues
• Assist team members in work activities and guide them in enhancing technical knowledge
• Guide team members’ in enhancing technical knowledge by highlighting the industry standards implementation
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of social media sharing best practices
• Good Knowledge in Google AMP and image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Familiar with web design tools like (Figma, Adobe XD and Zeplin)
• Knowledge of CWP and/or/CSM is a plus