Location: Austin, TX
URL: http://www.vignette.com/
Vignette Corporation is looking for a Front-end Developer who is passionate about creating online experiences and wants to take our world-class web content management product to even greater heights. This is a unique opportunity to join a talented team that is creating our next generation user-interface and put your stamp on it. You’ll have the chance to work on the product that many of the leading companies in the world use to manage their on-line presence and create compelling customer experiences.
As an ideal candidate, you should possess strong skills with JavaScript, CSS, HTML/XHTML, DOM, and JSP (or equivalent), real-world experience with toolkits and frameworks such as ExtJS, Dojo, JQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, or YUI, experience working on lightweight UI/UEs with focus on usability, performance principles, and cross-browser development techniques. You will need to be an advocate for good design and have a passion and demonstrated experience in the UI development of products with multiple concurrent end users and large datasets. If you are a person who gets excited about being able to develop products that will impact millions of people all over the world, this is the job for you.
Responsibilities:
- Develop optimized/cross platform front-end code using JavaScript/AJAX, CSS, HTML/XHTML, DOM, and JSP.
- Utilize libraries and frameworks such as ExtJS and Dojo to develop dynamic web applications.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and researchers to refine the user experience.
- Partner with backend engineers to ensure that interactive techniques and technologies translate through to shipping products and services.
- Show product ownership and strong interpersonal skills.
- Interface with the UI community to notice latest trends and emerging technologies.
- Develop low fidelity functional design prototypes to demonstrate proof of concepts and to enable rapid iterative support for evaluative design research.
Preferable Job Qualifications:
- 3+ years of relevant web programming experience, or 5+ years in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
- At least 5 years experience as a key member of a UI design team participating in the complete product development lifecycle of several successfully launched software applications.
- A proven track record of launching interactive internet sites/applications.
- A BS degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science.
- Must demonstrate strong interaction and rapid prototype engineering skills across a broad spectrum of technologies: CSS & DHTML, HTML/XHTML/WAP, AJAX/JavaScript, W3C DOM methods and properties.
- Experience in following areas is a strong plus: Perl or PHP/SQL, Spring/Hibernate, Java, XML/XSL, SQL, Perforce, Ant, Cruise Control, Selenium, WebLogic, Unix, Agile Methodologies like Scrum.
- Willing to enjoy living in Austin, consistently ranked among the top places to live in the U.S.
- Vignette offers a great work environment, flexible hours and highly-competitive salary and benefits.
To apply: send a resume to trima@vignette.com