UI Engineer #2014-4545 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago
2014-4545
Posting Job Title
UI Engineer
Job Location
US-IL-Chicago
Category
Technology
More information about this job:
Overview:
Are you passionate about building amazing web
experiences for customers? Does pushing the envelope of a Mobile web
travel shopping experience excite you? Orbitz is looking for engineers
to focus on front-end development for our global family of travel
websites. You should have a passion for shipping client-side UI code,
which will be used by millions of people worldwide.
Senior
User Interface Engineers will work closely with Product Specialists,
User Interface Designers and back-end Java developers, applying their
expert knowledge in front-end technologies - such as HTML, CSS,
Javascript, JSP and AJAX - to achieve business objectives and provide a
world class user experience for our customers.
Responsibilities:
- Build next-generation travel web applications with a focus on the client side.
- Iterate quickly on the consumer facing pages across our global family of travel sites.
- Develop features across both our desktop and mobile web sites.
- Write front-end code in JSP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Help make UI and UX decisions.
- Prototype experimental features.
- Work closely with product leads, designers, information architects and back-end engineers.
- Pro-actively look for ways to make our sites better.
- Advocate for best practices, great usability and exceptional quality.
- Help other developers take advantage of new HTML5 and CSS3 capabilities.
- Participate and lead design and code reviews.
- Help design and build reusable CSS/JS frameworks and libraries to simplify development.
Qualifications:
- Expert knowledge of HTML and CSS.
- Solid understanding of JavaScript and Ajax - with and without use of a library/framework.
- Strong command of web standards, progressive enhancement and cross-browser compatibility.
- Experience building consumer facing sites.
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities.
- Strong logic programming ability.
- Previous experience with a server-side scripting language (Ruby, Python, PHP, JSP, etc).
- Experience with a version control systems.
- Previous experience on large codebases.
- Understanding of client-side performance and how to improve it.
- Understanding and experience with Agile development a big plus.
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
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