UX Developer

The Agora

(Baltimore, Maryland)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About The Agora
We are a network for various publishers of financial, health, travel and special interest books and newsletters — each offering ideas, information and insights you can’t find anywhere else.
Summary
Are you a passionate developer with a passion for tailoring website experiences to fit user personas while still optimizing for the bottom-line? If so, we want to hear from you. The right candidate should be able to work quickly and effectively within a small team, be open to new ideas and approaches, turn ideas into prototypes, create mock-ups and designs on the fly and understand how to best use third party tools. We’re looking for the best and the brightest and we’re part of Agora, which is consistently voted one of the top places to work in Baltimore. We are growing at an incredible pace and looking for the right person to grow with us for many years to come. Our promise to the right candidate is the ability to contribute like never before and be involved in major decisions.
Responsibilities
* Actively participate in planning, prototyping, wire-framing, testing, and delivery. * Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards. * Work closely with Production to ensure successful user experience on all devices. * Contribute to the continuous improvement of best practices and standards in the areas of coding tools, languages, and APIs. * Design and build best-in-class websites, landing promotional pages and microsites. * Inform management of upcoming browser/device/OS changes or current bugs and outline changes needed to account for them. * Work to ensure designs are technologically sound. * Optimize websites to ensure they render consistently in cross-browser environments, with best SEO principles. * Knowledge of the best practices and limitations of web design (layout widths, typography, image optimization, etc.). * Provide input to help improve site usability, interface design, architecture, layout and content.
Ideal Candidate
* Strong front-end development skills: HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (jQuery). * Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills. * Extensive experience with responsive design, cross-browser, platform, and device manual/automation testing. * Understand RESTful API practices and server communication using AJAX/JSON and JavaScript/jQuery. * Experience with CSS Preprocessor’s like SASS/SCSS. * Ability to learn quickly and adapt to proprietary internal systems that are required to integrate into existing websites. * Expert knowledge of design principles and techniques. * Proficient in visual design and wire-framing tools. * Experience with Git and version control. * Experience with development tools: Grunt, Bower, node, etc. * Maintain a flexible work schedule to meet various demands of client programming and on-call requirements (very limited). * Expert understanding of image optimization, CDN, formatting, and how they affect performance. * Expert knowledge of fonts, how they are loaded, how they are used, and their affect on performance. * A bachelor’s degree in an IT or Computer Science related field or equivalent work experience. * Demonstrated expertise in creating user interfaces with JavaScript, HTML/5, & CSS3 * At least 2 years of related Lead/UX experience. * Desire to join a quickly growing team and become a vital part of its growth. * Must possess excellent interpersonal skills including strong written and verbal communication in English. * Must be able to clearly articulate and document processes and procedures. * Strong organizational skills, structured thinking and development methodology. * Ability to work quickly and patiently as part of a small team growing rapidly. * Ability to solve visual design challenges. * Able to take direction while still championing money-making ideas. **Skills not required but added bonus:** * Experience with WordPress. * Experience with Cordova. * Experience with PHP.
Compensation and Working Conditions
Benefits Benefits not included

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