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UI Designer

Location: Plano, TX

Duration: 6-7 months with possible contract to hire

Job description:          

- Customer Advocate: People who experience our designs should feel like we really know them. That's possible when we keep our customers (and people who aren't yet our customers) at the core of all our designs.

- Design Thinker: You'll uncover real business problems, prototype low-fidelity ways of solving that problem, and then design full-scale experiences that serve millions of people every. single. day.

- Interaction Designer: Your designs are fun to use. People say, "Huh, that was easy," without you having to explain anything to them.

- Visual Designer: You know how to create beautiful things, but more importantly, you're brave enough to cut everything if it's not working. Simplicity, editing, and a fierce focus on the most important elements is part of what defines your design philosophy.

Position overview & responsibilities

The User Interface Engineer (UIE) will take ownership of projects from beginning to end, from gathering requirements through design, implementation, testing and deployment. This position requires interaction among stakeholders including Product Owners, UX Designers and Engineers/Architects. You will review the UI design and implementation with your peers, fix bugs and troubleshoot operational issues as they occur. This position will be challenged with exciting engineering problems while staying on top of the latest front-end trends, technologies and standards.

Responsibilities:

The UIE's primary responsibility will be to work with the product and engineering teams to ensure that the interfaces of our products are simple and pleasingly usable.

- Work with the engineering team to develop features/functionality for our applications with a client-centered focus.

- Redesign existing UI's and implement new UI's for web, mobile and peripheral devices.

- Coordinate with Software Architect(s) to implement and optimize scalable framework for web applications.

- Set and enforce standards for interface development within the organization.

- Provide tools and training for developers & coordinate with third-party vendors/partners as needed.

- Research competing platforms and contribute to the product development process.

- Actively participate in QA process.

Any challenges faced will be addressed collaboratively by the team with a balance of optimism, data, and realism.

The ideal candidate will be part of the solution, and will be challenged to deliver at a very high level.

Skills/experience required:

- 5-7 years of User Interface / Web Application Development experience.

- Building responsive design/mobile first approach a must have

- Expert knowledge and familiarity with Javascript, CSS/3, HTML/5.

- Expert knowledge of one or more technologies jQuery, EXT-JS or other "rich client" toolkits.

- Experience with Web 2.0 techniques, AJAX architectures, Web Services (SOAP or REST) and JSON.

- Experience working with on Portal/Portlets, Web Services, Java, and Struts

- Experience working with Angular

- Experience working with both Java and Javascript MVC frameworks.

- Experience developing mobile applications.

- Experience in Linux operating environments.

- Excellent problem-solving skills; strong communication and teamwork skills.

Education:

You may have a B.S in Computer Science or a related field, but more importantly, you are exceptionally good at your craft and have a portfolio to back it up.

Experience developing mobile applications.

Experience working with Angular