Senior UI Developer

Blinds.com, based in Houston, Texas, is the largest online seller of blinds.

We are looking for a Sr. Developer with strong web user interface skills to build our next generation of highly interactive marketing applications using the latest cutting-edge technologies. If you have proven skills in Web UI implementation with a passion for building great user interfaces we would like to hear from you.

Scope of Activities:

• Develop new, leading edge eCommerce websites
• Agile programming on a team of the best in Houston, TX

Characteristics:

• A good fit with the team dynamic. We need someone the team can trust, rely on, hang out with, bounce ideas off of, and generally interact with in a positive way both personally and professionally.
• Must be smart, easy to work with and gets things done.
• Super talented, in a general way. On any given day, you may be turning a Photoshop into HTML and CSS, tracking down a bug, changing some server side code, mining some data or pitching in on testing.
• Specifically talented in a programming way. You can instantly visualize solutions to problems big or small. If you’re this sort of person, you’ll know what I mean. If not then this position may not be for you.
• Know the why, not just the how. We know it works, but why does it work? Why did you choose this way?
• 5 or more years of industry experience

• Participate in daily stand-up, bi-weekly iteration planning and other as-needed face-to-face, audio- and/or video-teleconferencing sessions.
• Be influential in architectural discussions, design decisions and provide input in to all aspects of the system.
• Write clean code with good nomenclature, sensible tests and comments when necessary.
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and acceptance tests.
• Implement new features and fix bugs in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other technologies for our application.
• Become more cross-functional over time so that you can assist in other areas where needed: server-side development, QA testing etc.

Skills:

• Strong web UI development skills using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX
• Strong source code repository knowledge as well as branching strategies, nice to know Git.
• JavaScript MVVM frameworks such as Knockout
• .NET Development (C#, MVC, ASP)

Other nice to have skills:

• Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development,
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Document Database (RavenDB, Mongo, Couch, etc)