Front-End Developer (Hornsby Shire)

Responsibilities
- Conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasks
- Determines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach in UI development with reuse and modular development in consideration
- Engages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasks
- Designs and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activities
- Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs
- Provides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reporting
- Provides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high quality standard
- Ability to understand business requirements and visual / UX designs to frame a development approach and task plan
- Ability to prepare a frontend development task plan and estimates based on business requirements and visual designs
- Experienced in Java Scripts, JQuery and Angular JS libraries (1.x/2.x) and frameworks and has the ability to apply these frameworks in project requirements for front end development
- Ability to recommend and image scaling in frontend
- Performance tuning of frontend codebase Key Accountabilities
- Conducts analysis to determine system requirements and system impacts for new or enhanced applications in order to plan and provide estimates for development tasks
- Determines development approach options and recommends the most effective approach in UI development with reuse and modular development in consideration
- Engages with business users, business/technical analysts, solution architects and others to understand needs and requirements for project and maintenance development tasks
- Designs and codes quality programs of all levels of complexity in alignment with business requirements and solution architecture for project and maintenance activities
- Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs
- Provides emergency technical support and resolution of production problems and other maintenance activities to ensure that applications are performing well and as designed to ensure high system availability, strong data integrity and accurate/timely reporting
- Provides input to the programming practices and standard to ensure these are up-to-date and of a high quality standard
- Ability to understand business requirements and visual / UX designs to frame a development approach and task plan
- Ability to prepare a frontend development task plan and estimates based on business requirements and visual designs
- Experienced in Java Scripts, JQuery and Angular JS libraries (1.x/2.x) and frameworks and has the ability to apply these frameworks in project requirements for front end development
- Ability to perform image scaling in frontend
- Performance tuning of frontend codebase Knowledge, Skills And Experience
- About 3 – 5 years expertise in application development including:
- Experienced in HTML5, CSS3, LESS
- Ability to develop frontend screens of different viewports from ground up
- RESTful services, AJAX, JavaScript / JQuery and Angular1.x/2.x
- Working with web services/REST, web architectures including SEO, mobile web considerations and responsive web design
- Source control management tool, such as TFS, GIT, Stash, Grunt
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.
- Excellent knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies in Agile delivery, practices, and SCRUM methodology
- Design and build components, templates and screens using front end templating techniques such as Handlebars
- Ability work in frontend based build pipeline using Grunt / Gulp and TFS or any other build tools
- Solving technical problems related to content management such as search result accuracy, energetic content linking, formatting, image scaling and personalization.
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field gained through 8 or more years of experience in a similar development environment
- Significant knowledge of object-oriented programming, applying SOLID principals and design patterns
- Excellent knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies including agile
- Proven track record in integration and development of distributed software applications including cloud-based applications
- Highly skilled in analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting, debugging
- Strong verbal and written communication skills #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3q2ihn