Innovations technological

Role: Front End Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Duration: 9 Months

Responsibilities:
* Architect, implement, deploy and maintain web-based applications, with an emphasis on high quality, high performance, reusable components that support the IRT's practices and guidelines. Including:
* Translate user requirements into technical requirements and ultimately complete products
* Work independently to create robust mission critical systems to support the school's expanding mission
* Proactively identify and resolve technical problems in development process and software systems
* Employ industry standard tools and techniques in analysis and design, including business, object, data and process modeling.
* Coordinate with users and technical staff throughout the University to understand and maximally leverage available technology infrastructure.
* Continually identify and deploy tools which increase the productivity and quality of the entire development team.
* Use, define, and evolve development practices to insure quality, maintainability, and productivity.
* Practices should include code documentation, code reviews, automated testing, unit testing, code refactoring, and continuous integration.
* Define best usage practices for current and emerging design and development technologies and methodologies.
* Inform clients, project managers and supervisors with clear accurate information about timeliness and quality regarding the functional and technical aspects of the projects.
* Work within agreed-upon project goals, milestones, and deadlines.
* Provide accurate and detailed time estimation, accounting of risks, and other information to support project management.

Required Qualifications:
* Four-year college degree or equivalent experience required.
* Minimum of five years related experience required.
* Strong understanding of web-based technologies, application programming interfaces (APIs), mobile development, and site/infrastructure management in a large-scale enterprise environment.
* Strong understanding of user experience best practices, theory and user-behavior.
* Ability to synthesize user, technical and design requirements into highly usable web sites and applications.
* Good understanding of object-oriented design, with focus on front-end client side scripting.
* Solid understanding of browser compatibility issues.
* Strong ability and desire to quickly learn and apply new technologies.
* Experience working on a team using rapid development software design methodologies
* Knowledge of Java MVC frameworks.
* Demonstrated ability to independently implement and maintain Web 2.0 technologies.
* Knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, AJAX and mobile web required.
* Experience working in an environment that includes a variety of middle-ware and backend web technologies such as Java, JSTL, Tomcat, Oracle, PHP, UNIX, SQL, Perl, LDAP, HTTP a plus.
* Familiarity with integration technologies like Web Services and REST based APIs.
* Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
* Strong written and verbal/presentation communication skills

Desired Qualifications:
* Strong familiarity with HTML5, DOM, Object Oriented JavaScript, JavaScript MVC (Backbone), Version Control (SVN), PhP and Java Spring MVC highly desirable.