Title: User Experience Engineer/ Front End Developer

Job Order: 363900

Location: Rochester, New York 14626 or REMOTE

Duration: 12 Months+ (Extensions possible based on performance)

Industry: Software Development & Support

Overview:

Join the Cloud Managed Services (CMS) 3.x team, joining an emerging piece of a well-established business.  CMS brings cloud services to traditional enterprise clients and workloads, enabling them to modernize their IT infrastructures and embrace innovation and change. 

Our clients include well known global 1000 companies who rely on our services to manage the inventories at truck factories, to distribute consumer appliances around the world, to sell and service insurance, and to produce and ship drinks and food all around the world.

We are modernizing our user experience and in search of a talented developer to be a part of our team, working to closely understand how our clients and users interact with the environment, and building them a user experience that delights them with innovative and beautiful interactions. 

If you want to be part of a large, talented team with deep expertise in infrastructure, applications, services, and industry, and if you want to make a significant impact with clients that make a difference in the world, then this is the place for you.

The role requires:

• Understanding user needs, and exploring user-centered designs

• Specifying, building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and supporting your code

• Leveraging modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient, and reusable code

• Identifying and addressing design, development, and delivery performance bottlenecks

• Actively participating in code and design reviews

• Coaching, educating, and advocating front end development best practice

• Work closely with design team members, product management and engineering to identify user pain points and needs

• Explore, evaluate and refine low fidelity designs with a focus on gathering further user insight:

• Create design artefacts in a way that will get the feedback you need to influence the product’s design

• Conduct hands-on testing, workshops and interviews to derive insight from your designs

• Converge on a clearly articulated user experience that shows other designers, developers and offering managers how to address user pain points and deliver the things they need

• Work with Design Researchers, Visual Designers and Developers to ensure that everything you do is supported and guided by research, as well as being realistic and implementable

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline

• Previous experience in developing with HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Previous experience in developing modular JavaScript

• Strong grasp of cross-browser quirks and compatibility, mobile-first content driven responsive design and development, progressive enhancement, leveraging APIs, testing and resolving performance concerns, team Git workflow and version control, Unix shell and command line tools

Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Education: Master's Degree
Travel Required: Minimal – occasional face to face meetings, < 25%
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?  No
Type: Full-Time