Intermediate Front-End Developer

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About Gameloft

A leading digital and social game publisher, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms and with an audience of 157 million monthly users offers via Gameloft Advertising Solutions a unique level of visibility and involvement to advertisers. Gameloft operates its own established franchises such as Asphalt®, Order & Chaos, Modern Combat and Dungeon Hunter and also partners with major rights holders including Universal, Illumination Entertainment, Disney®, Marvel®, Hasbro®, Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel® and Ferrari®. Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries and employs 6,000 people worldwide. Gameloft is a Vivendi company.

Job Description

An Intermediate Front-End Developer works with web developers and back-end coder and is technically responsible for the overall quality, security and development of the online user experience.  To this extent, proofreading skills and an all-around attention to detail is vital.

 Job Function

§  Perform web and legacy system development, update and support.

§  Must have strong knowledge of front-end web technologies, including JavaScript and its frameworks, HTML5, and CSS to integrate and build new and innovative web applications.

§  Define process communication, resource allocation, development direction, and define project ETAs and planning.

§  Good understanding of Web analytics and SEO techniques and how to implement them.

§  Optimizes web applications to ensure they are rendered consistently and efficiently in a cross-browser environment

§  Support the development team to boost website security and propose initiatives to deliver full website performance and optimization.

§  Contribute to continuous improvement by suggesting improvement to user interface or new technologies.

§  Analyzes customer requirements and defines front-end solutions while providing assistance to the team for any problem and technical roadblocks.

§  Recommends new technologies and development strategies

§  Coordinate roll-out of new applications

§  Provides production support

Performs other duties that maybe assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

§  Candidates must possess at least a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent

§  3+ years developing front-end and user interface code for Web sites and mobile apps

§  Familiarity with the latest mobile UI and UX design patterns

§  Good knowledge of JavaScript, MVC, CSS3, HTML5 and RESTful APIs.

§  Experience with JavaScript MVC pattern and frameworks like JQuery and Node.js

§  Has experience using IDE’s such as PHP Storm or Sublime.

§  Has good experience using version control tools such as Git Bash and Tortoise SVN.

§  Must display excellent leadership potential coupled with solid work ethic.

§  Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.

§  Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

§  Knowledge of basic project management methodology.

§  Knowledge in Scrum and Kanban is preferable.