iHorizons is hiring a
Senior Developer - Front End

Summary

Join our team as a Web Application Developer to implement visual and interactive elements within a web application for customers. Responsibilities include designing and developing user-friendly interfaces, optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability, collaborating with backend developers and designers, and assisting team members in enhancing technical knowledge.

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
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Good understanding of: Web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, particularly those in AngularJS, are essential for modern web development
• Asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design & Development
• 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 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

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of CWP and/or/CSM is a plus