User Interface/Application Engineer

Overview:

We are a fast-growing company thriving through the economic downturn by providing a unique and much needed travel service. We are looking for an outstanding application engineer with strong web-tier development skills and a burning desire to create a great product. Candidate has desire to work directly with product and business teams to have direct influence on the direction and quality of the leading travel search engine.

Responsibilities:

Develop application features with a focus on the UI experience, contribute to interaction and visual design of user features, performance measurement and tuning, A/B testing. Successful candidates will be able to do middle tier development to support features and can work well with back end infrastructure specialists.

Experience (required):

• 5 years web application development experience with at least 2 years experience at a high-traffic consumer web site
• Ability to do rapid prototyping of new features in parallel with design
• Passion for the development of high-quality web UI
• 4 years experience XHTML, HTML CSS
• 4 years plus experience working with and resolving cross-browser compatibility issues
• 4 years experience JavaScript/Ajax - deep knowledge of common JavaScript libraries and an ability to "do it by hand" when appropriate.
• Hands-on experience doing widgets mash-ups, such as Google Maps, Flickr Photo Widget, or similar
• Front-end optimization experience
• Ability to convert visual designs/wireframes into HTML
• Ability to shift gears quickly

Experience ideal):

• Iterative prototyping and live A/B testing to optimize user experience on a high volume consumer website.
• Hands-on experience with JSON and JavaScript support libraries such as jQuery, prototype, scriptaculous, extJS or others.
• Design/Prototyping Tools: Photoshop/GIMP, Flash, html wireframes
• Debugging Tools: YSlow and Firebug
• Experience with mid-tier technologies: Web Services, XML, SOAP, SAX, Ruby on Rails, Active Record and/or J2EE technologies including EJB, Spring, Hibernate
• SQL, UNIX, Ant, Maven, Rake, jUnit

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