UI Developer for MOO

Overview

We are looking for an exceptional person to join our amazing award winning high growth company!

Are you a passionate and self-motivated front end web developer? Moo needs you to join our expanding engineering team at our Shoreditch headquarters!

About MOO

• We make life a little less virtual (we love the web, but you can't put it in your pocket).
• We help our customers create products like Business Cards, Postcards and MiniCards, making it easy for them to share information about themselves or their business in the real world.
• Unlike many tech companies, we make physical products, and they are used every day by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
• We work with amazing partners including Facebook, Flickr, Etsy, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Responsibilities

• Working along side the Product, UX, and design teams to define and deliver interfaces of exceptional quality
• Developing high quality JavaScript (jQuery), CSS, and HTML which conforms to the MOO coding standards
• Working in a small cross-functional team of developers to deliver high quality web applications to (self imposed) demanding deadlines.
• Provide mentorship and direction to more junior members of the team.

About you

• Able to write modular, cross-browser, optimised CSS/SASS/Less code, including understanding & communicating how given designs will degrade across older browsers while still allowing the best MOO look & feel possible for each platform.
• Able to write performant, well-organised JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX, giving a rich interactive experience for those that support it, and degrades sensibly and gracefully across older browsers
• Understanding & communicating the best semantic markup for a layout, working within a modified grid360 system
• Work closely with UX, product managers, other developers and designers to best realise the vision, design & implementation of the website, discussing technical solutions and suggesting alternatives where required
• Awareness of industry issues, trends & emerging technologies, and able to communicate them to both technical and non technical team members
• Able to design, communicate and ensure consistent front end code standards for a team of developers

Nice to Have:

• University Degree in Computer Science
• An obsession with unit testing, and a militant supporter of web standards
• Active involvement in an open source project
• A good understanding of agile software development practices, preferably hands on experience of SCRUM