Web Developer

Kforce is a professional staffing services firm offering Technology and Finance & Accounting jobs with top employers nationwide. We specialize in providing contract, contract-to-hire and direct placement opportunities, with over 50 years of experience in the staffing industry.

A Kforce client, one of the largest Travel and Tourism firms in the world is seeking a Web Developer to join their team in New York, New York (NY). This firm is searching for a well-rounded UI Engineer who has developed and maintained UIs for high-volume transactional e-Commerce websites.

* Implement and maintain user interface (UI) layer of our high-volume transactional e-commerce websites * Use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery to design and build UIs within a .NET team environment * Use well known JavaScript libraries and frameworks to build scale-able and maintainable JavaScript applications or utility libraries * Work with .NET software engineers to ensure UI and .NET back-end process work well together * Work with user experience (UX) designers in the creative design of UIs for the client's high-volume transactional e-Commerce websites * Develop and maintain UIs for our high-volume transactional e-commerce websites * Translate Photoshop designs and mockups into working web pages * Analyze and resolve UI-related problems in our production environments for our high-volume transactional e-commerce websites * Participate in assigned tasks in the lifecycles and the Research and Development of different tools and technologies that make the maintenance of the Online Technology e-Commerce websites more efficient from a UI perspective * Adhere to front-end best practices and advocate them to the team * Stay abreast of new front-end technologies and suggest them if they would be useful for projects

**Requirements** * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and/or equivalent professional front-end experience * 3+ years of UI experience, including building cross-browser UIs that function in all modern browsers * HTML4, XHTML1.1, HTML5 * CSS2.1, CSS3 * Object-Oriented JavaScript * jQuery * Ajax * JSON/JSON-P * 3+ years of experience translating design mockups and prototypes into working websites * Experience using Adobe Photoshop for building websites: splicing images, image optimization, image sprites, etc * 3+ years of experience with front-end development practices: SMACSS/OOCSS, minification, concatenation, Firebug, Chrome DevTools, etc * 1+ years of experience with CSS preprocessors, such as LESS and SCSS * 1+ years of experience with JavaScript MV* frameworks, such as AngularJS * 1+ years of experience with CSS frameworks, such as Bootstrap * 1+ years of experience with web accessibility: tabindex, alt attributes, ARIA, section 508, etc * 1+ years of experience in an Agile working environment **Bonus Qualifications:** * Experience building UIs for e-Commerce websites a strong plus * Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and plugins * Experience with responsive design frameworks, such as Twitter Bootstrap * Basic experience with version control systems * Basic experience with XML and XSLT