Job Description

Design and develop front-end and mobile applications Develop front-end code that adheres to architectural guidelines (secure, high-performing, scalable, extensible, flexible, simple) Understand business requirements and turn them into technical designs Understand style guides and turn them into front-end code- Understand information architecture and visual designs and turn them into front end code Understand backend interfaces and develop front-end code that integrates with those interfaces- Execute in a test driven development environment, writing unit tests and building code to pass unit tests Execute in an agile environment using industry standard tools and delivering weekly code releases- Understand cross browser, cross platform development issues and solutions Estimate for design and development effort

Skills

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science or equivalent
• Understanding of asynchronous code, call backs, and promises
• Strong experience using front-end frameworks (HTML5, CSS3, Jquery, JavaScript, Bootstrap etc.)
• Hands on experience with web standards, SEO and accessibility
• Strong experience in responsive design methodologies
• Expertise in CSS pre-processors like LESS or SASS is an asset
• Asset if you have experience integrating front-end code with backend services (web services, RESTful services, JSON, XML, web sockets)
• Knowledge of JavaScript unit testing frameworks like Jasmine is an asset
• Ability to articulate and explain details around web development basics like browser security issues, iframe to iframe communication, https requests, CORS
• Familiarity with the MVC pattern

About the Company:

GALE is a business agency that brings together an equal balance of business consulting expertise & agency creativity to solve the world’s most complex marketing challenges. We operate without silos to deliver innovative business strategy, data insights, and transformative creative work. We work best with brands that are trying to solve tomorrow's problems, today.