User Interface Engineer II

The User Interface Engineer is responsible for planning, designing, and producing websites and other screen based digital media solutions. The User Interface Engineer also plays a role in providing advice and guidance, and monitoring emerging trends.
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Planning
Works with Product Management to understand the challenges that end users face and partner with customers to design viable front-end solutions.
Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning for front-end solutions.
Product Development
Designs, creates, develops, and maintains dynamic user interface templates for multiple applications, complete with page-level unit testing
Architects and implements front-end frameworks to increase development speed-to-market.
Develops dynamic web pages for high-volume, multi-tier, architecture-based applications.
Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary.
Application Support
Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.
Advice and Guidance
Actively works with less experienced user interface engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.
Emerging Technology Monitoring
Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new web development technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization.
User Experience Design
Ability to:
Collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines to define technology objectives, assess solution options and devise architectural solutions that both achieve strategic business goals and meet operational requirements.
Develop visual user experiences, working with project teams to present propositions and strategies.
Translate concepts into hi-fidelity visual outputs and interactive prototypes.
Capture multi-disciplinary requirements, and translates those requirements into user experiences, prototypes and final assets.
Plan and cost UI development activities, building in time for iteration, user feedback and design changes, and articulating the costs and benefits of different design approaches.
Programming/ Software Development
Ability to:
Design, code, test, correct and document programs and scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result.
Take part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
Application Support
Ability to:
Manage application enhancements to improve business performance.
Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 2+ years of working experience
• Scrum Developer Certification or equivalent
• Working experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems
• Working experience realizing applications from conception and design, to implementation and support
• Working experience in coding within front-end technology stacks (e.g. HTML/XHTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Working experience designing and developing Content Management Systems
• Working experience with user interface design patterns and visual design elements
• Working experience with application lifecycle methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative)
• Working experience in analysis, design and programming
• Working experience with appropriate database technology

Preferred Qualifications:
Skills:
- Sass, SCSS, CSS
- JavaScript (Latest ES syntax understanding)
- React
- Node applications
- Agile methodologies
- AWS
- Github
USD 84,600.00 - 127,000.00 per year
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