Sr. Software Engineer

Client is a large Financial Services company. Job Type: Contract (Right to Hire) Title: Sr. Software Engineer Location:  Boston, MA   Job Description: This multi-faceted role offers the individual the opportunity to have tremendous impact on a number of web initiatives, starting with the rollout of a new set of Intranet/Collaboration tools.   The candidate would also be joining the group at a point at which they will have significant direct impact on the evolution of our new User Experience practice and front end development methods broadly.   Responsibilities                    - Translate designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance - Build software applications – Follow coding standards, builds appropriate unit tests, integration tests and deployment scripts - Assist in defining software architectures – Collaborate with leads to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, learns the applications capabilities - Communicate continually with the client and project teams – Explain progress on the development effort - Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, architecture or new technologies   Required Skills:   - Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, and conventional JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks - Very solid HTML and CSS skills, knowing where and when to leverage technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 - Experience converting PSD's into static templates - Thorough understanding of JavaScript and the DOM without using a library - Familiarity with client-side MVC frameworks. Specifically Backbone (Angular knowledge a strong plus). - Skilled in using a CSS preprocessor to speed up development (LESS, SCSS/Compass, etc) - Expertise with Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery , and a CSS preprocessor (ex. LESS) - Knowledge of web standards and page-weight optimization a must - Experience with responsive/adaptive design is required. - Experience consuming, JSON-based APIs. - Experience in Drupal (or similar CMS) is a strong plus - Understanding of software design patterns and testing methodologies is a plus - Familiarity with at least one server-side MVC Framework (ROR, Django, etc) and how it relates to server and client side web development is a plus. - Must be self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision - Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline and 5+ years of relevant work experience. Thanks & Regards Ashwin Kumar Sr. Recruiter Tel: 630-743-6106 Ext: 6158 , Fax: 248-479-0873 Email: [email protected] Computech Corporation 100 W Kirby St, Detroit MI 48202 www.computechcorp.com Javascript, CSS, HTML and good knowledge with MVC and Bootstrap. Front end developer with execellent Javascript, CSS, HTML skills.