Front End Developer

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quinstreet

Front End Developer

Oakland, CA
Paid
  • Responsibilities

     

    Front End Developer

     

    Corporate Overview

    Founded in 1999, and with its initial public offering in 2010, QuinStreet, Inc. is the leader in vertical marketing and media online, consistently delivering the right leads at the right volume to thousands of industry-leading clients and business brands. The company’s full-service approach combines direct marketing expertise, vast search and media reach, and industry-leading technologies to deliver dramatically improved results for clients. QuinStreet is headquartered in Foster City, CA, with satellite offices worldwide. QuinStreet is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy status, sex, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law.

    Job Category

    Put your creative and technical skills to good use in a fun, innovative, and inspired web development team in a successful online marketing company.

     

    QuinStreet's vertical publishing team produces high-quality direct marketing displays for high volume publisher websites across a broad range of industries and website technologies. An entrepreneurial mindset is essential for success in this fast-growing team.

     

    We are looking for Front End developer that has experience working in a service-oriented architecture, both designing and building services and websites from the ground up. You should have experience with scaling code and services to handle high-volume traffic and many concurrent users, stay current with the newest online technologies and make recommendations on implementations. You will work closely with backend engineers to understand, design, and contribute to our APIs and build efficient and reusable front-end systems and abstractions adhering to front end best practices

     

    The major responsibilities of the Front End Developer will be:

    •  Contribute high quality, production code for our products security, reliability, availability and scale
    • Determine the best implementation that will meet the design of the Systems Solution Architect
    • Work with Vue.js, Node.js and MySQL to design, develop and debug Web applications
    • Perform requirements analysis, high-level design, effort estimation for new business requirements and feature enhancements
    • Participate in design discussions with business users, Solution System Architect and engineering teams
    • Work closely with QA engineers, technical leads and business users
    • Solve technical problems and handle performance/scalability issues on a day to day basis
    • Integrate back-end services with Vue.js/JavaScript based front end needs
    • Work with the team to manage, optimize and customize multiple web applications
    • Create and maintain technical documentation

    Technical Requirements:

      The ideal candidate will have:

    • 3+ years of software development experience in CSS and JavaScript frameworks (Vue, Angular or React)
    • 3+ years building responsive design products
    • 3+ years hands-on experience with web application architecture and relational database design
    • 3+ years of experience in building database-driven applications and Web sites
    • Proficiency with front-end scripting including: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS Preprocessing (Sass/LESS)
    • Proficiency with version control tools – Perforce/GIT
    • Proficiency with Unix based commands
    • Understanding and demonstrated adaptation of cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility concerns
    • Experience in JavaScript development frameworks is required.
    • Strong presentation, communication, and collaboration skills, enabling effective interaction and knowledge transfer to teammates and other departments within the company
    • A high task load is expected. You should be able to work within tight deadlines while exhibiting exemplary time management and task prioritization
    • Positive attitude and professionalism in the workplace as well as great sense of humor is always appreciated

    General Requirements:

     

    • A natural curiosity, an understanding of metrics and measurement, and an interest in the business side of web site performance
    • BS/MS in CS, EE, or equivalent education experience
    • Strong presentation, communication, and collaboration skills, enabling effective interaction and knowledge transfer to teammates and other departments within the company
    • A high task load is expected. You should be able to work within tight deadlines while exhibiting exemplary time management and task prioritization
    • Strong analytic skills, especially in assessing and designing for performance
    • Meticulous attention to detail and aesthetics
    • Must possess ability to work with minimal to no supervision
    • Up to date with latest standards for site development and optimization
    • Positive attitude and professionalism in the workplace
    • A great sense of humor is always appreciated

    QuinStreet is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy status, sex, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law.