As a Front-End Developer, you are first and foremost a deep source of technical knowledge in HTML / CSS, with strong experience creating responsive web solutions. You also have a demonstrated capacity to acquire new technical skills and frequently seek out alternative solutions and techniques to enhance what you create. You are able to work effectively across all phases of a web development project—providing development input during the strategy and design phases, conducting thorough testing and troubleshooting, and deploying solutions.
You possess the skill and ability to grasp the nuances of a client's business. You are blessed with an endless curiosity and desire for learning. You are able to communicate effectively with both clients and internal team members.
Key Responsibilities:
- Convert designs from PSD to HTML & CSS with a focus on responsive web
- Find creating solutions to client problems in a range of CMS platforms (Drupal, Wordpress, Magento etc)
- Produce semantic markup
- Put users first in every decision you make, and consider user-experience across multiple devices
- Think through performance and accessibility challenges
- Minimize bandwidth requirements and maximize page load speed
- Adhere to web accessibility standards
- Stay on top of industry trends and techniques and share them with your colleagues
- Test new approaches to understand benefits and determine project fit
- Fill in design gaps and create custom application experiences
- Transform designs for desktop to tablet and mobile views (or vice-versa)
- Independently carry out the tone and vision of the design when needed
- Customize bootstrap, foundation or other frameworks for a back-end web application
- Use CSS preprocessors like Sass or LESS`