Uptake

User Interface/ Application Engineer

Overview:
We are looking for an outstanding application engineer with strong web-tier development skills. Candidate has desire 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. In addition the successful candidate will assist in the development and maintenance of frameworks for web-tier development,

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
  • 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):

  • Hands-on experience with JSON and JavaScript support libraries such as jQuery, prototype, scriptaculous.
  • Experience with mid-tier technologies: Web Services, XML, SOAP, SAX, Ruby on Rails, Active Record and/or J2EE technologies including EJB, Spring, Hibernate
  • Design/Prototyping Tools: Photoshop/GIMP, Flash
  • Debugging Tools: YSlow and Firebug
  • SQL, UNIX, Ant, Maven, Rake, jUnit

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