UX Developer

Pay Level:  MM3/18 negotiable

SUMMARY

The UX Developer will collaborate with other members of the User Experience Team to deliver a comprehensive and consistent digital experience to all of Cru’s audiences across a variety of platforms. The  UX Developer will masterfully engineer front-end components with HTML5, advanced CSS and JavaScript libraries to present information in fresh, intuitive and creative ways. Responsive design, progressive enhancement, graceful fall-backs and other techniques should be utilized to support audiences using diverse devices around the world.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS include the following:

• Architect, design, develop, and maintain innovative, engaging, and informative websites, apps and components for a worldwide audience.
• Integrates front-end user interfaces with back-end applications and our content management system.
• Performs website configurations in content management system to enable workflow, user rights & permissions, and enable other functionality as needed.
• Consults with team to prototype, refine, test, and debug websites; critiques and solicits feedback on web applications. Implements modifications based on feedback from users and management.
• Publishes documentation of developed applications including the logic, coding, testing, and modifications of solutions.
• Provides technical assistance by responding to inquiries from others regarding errors, problems, or questions about developed applications and solutions.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and GitHub development experience.
• Experience with SASS or LESS compilation of CSS.
• Experience with mobile development, including responsive design.
• Excellent leadership, communication, project management, and organizational skills.
• Strong consistency and attention to detail.
• Intermediate principles and techniques of digital development.
• Technical aspects and advances in digital technologies.
• Interpersonal skills using diplomacy, tact, patience, and courtesy.

ABILITY TO:

• Be flexible and adaptable to changing technology stacks.
• Learn new programming skills, languages and systems.
• Maintain current knowledge of technological advances in the field.
• Collaborate with others.
• Be self-motivated to meet time schedules, deadlines and plan and organize work.
• Work confidentially and with discretion.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

BA/BS or equivalent practical experience.  4 years developing clean, valid, and compatible websites and applications.  Preferred experience with JavaScript libraries (e.g., jQuery, Modernizr).