Front-End/ Web UI Developer
| Company | Austin Community College District |
|---|---|
| Location | Austin, TX, USA |
| Salary | $65560 – $81949 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Associate’s |
| Experience Level | Junior |
Requirements
- Excellent knowledge of visual design and a strong understanding of layout and typography, including web typography.
- Thorough knowledge of web user experiences, information architecture, and web graphics creation.
- Thorough knowledge of web standards, including an understanding for designing for accessibility and user experience.
- Working knowledge of professional web development and graphics tools.
- Working knowledge of CSS standard compliant website design and coding.
- Familiarity with open-source CMS development, preferably Drupal/WordPress.
- Familiarity with web marketing principles.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new web development methods and technologies.
- Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Maintaining an established work schedule.
- Effectively using interpersonal, communication, and instructional skills, including tact and diplomacy.
- Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
- Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
- Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
- Demonstrated experience in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
- Familiar with the concept of responsive and adaptive front end interface development.
- Experience with client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.
- Familiarity with solutions to cross-browser compatibility issues.
Responsibilities
- From a user-centered perspective, develops and tests rich interactive web experiences that align with the college strategies.
- Develops information architecture, navigational structure, user interface, visual design, graphics, HTML emails, and interactive features and elements for multiple web devices and emails.
- Works collaboratively with the marketing and design teams to establish strategies, tactics, process, and schedules for web projects.
- Creates user interaction models, workflows, information architectures, prototypes, and guidelines for user interfaces.
- Produces finished final deliverables that are to be deployed to production websites and web applications.
- Optimizes web designs and features to minimize download time and meet browser and platform compatibility standards.
- Researches new products and services that can be implemented to improve the effectiveness, functionality, and appearance of the institution’s web presence.
- Keeps abreast of current web standards, web marketing strategies, design trends, development processes, and production methods.
- Maintains current knowledge of web development hardware and software tools and methods.
- Serves as a member of the emergency communication team, as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate degree or higher in graphic design, graphic arts, web design or a related field.