Job Description

Summary 7 years of experience


In this role, you pride yourself on staying at the cutting edge of UI design and development. You are equally comfortable creating an interactive prototype, and developing maintainable CSS/SASS/LESS, HTML, and JavaScript. You believe that semantic markup, web accessibility and performance optimization are musthaves on every page you deliver, and you devour articles describing ways to improve the quality of the user experience. 68 years of experience in developing frontend code for an enterprise content management system (e.g., Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore).


Responsibilities


Produce great frontend code. You enjoy producing clean, easytoread, semantic HTML markup and CSS, adhering to W3C specs and best practices. Youre skilled at architecting modular, maintainable, and extensible CSS code. (Deep experiences with SASS a major plus.) Youre also deeply familiar with jQuery and the best plugins.


Leverage modular CSS methodologies like BEM, OOCSS


Develop new userfacing features based on provided designs and style system


Build reusable code and libraries for future use


Optimize frontend pages for maximum speed and scalability, with a focus on Core Web Vitals


Ensure pages adhere to accessibility standards specifically WCAG 2.2 AA conformance


Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to backend


Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders


Ensure the application scales well across browsers (Cross Browser Testing)


Build UI components using Storybook.


Experience in using Figma a plus


Key capabilities


Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3


Proficient understanding of core web vitals and techniques for optimizing page load times


Strong knowledge of Twitter Bootstrap framework and Responsive Design using media


jQuery


Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to integrate UI components into a content management system


Basic understanding of AEMs Sightly/HTL




Proficient in using Font, icons and implement using CSS3


Conduct thorough testing of UI components to ensure compatibility and adherence to quality standards.


Proficient understanding of crossbrowser compatibility issues and ways to work around them


Fair understanding of JavaScript programming and DOM manipulation


Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that the application will adhere to them


Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / SVN


Provide clear and comprehensive documentation for developed UI components.


Effectively communicate with team members, stakeholders, and project managers.


Experience in Agile development is a plus


Education


Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.


Adobe Experience Cloud related certifications preferred.

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.



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