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Senior Software Engineer - Consumer Website

NEW YORK-10016, NY, US
08/27/2018

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Required Skills

HTML

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

5 to 7 Year(s)

Job Description

Our client is a global business and financial information and news leader with a focus on open-source bleeding edge technology, and they are currently looking to add multiple SWEs to Consumer Web Team.

What can you do as a media company with the information and resources of one of the largest financial technology firms? The engineers behind the Consumer Web team help answer these questions every day.

We build and manage web applications and supporting systems that deliver market-moving news, data, video, audio and ultimately represent the brand to a global and dynamic audience. We keep millions of users informed every day.

In a challenging industry and an ever-changing technical landscape, we are devoted to delivering quality software - and quickly.

Our purpose is to understand our users' needs, scale and performance limitations and emerging technology trends for efficient and reliable delivery.

We'll trust you to:

Collaborate within an Agile, multi-disciplinary, fast moving team

Take ownership of technical solutions, development and delivery to production

Develop in all levels of a web application stack, from the client to server side

Explore and evaluate the value of new and emerging web technologies

You'll need to have:

A strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals and an understanding of asynchronous design patterns

5+ years of professional experience building high volume web applications using a language like JavaScript, Python or Ruby

Proficiency in HTML, JavaScript (ES5/ES6), CSS, HTTP protocol, REST API design, cookies, caching, security, web accessibility standards

Experience working with multiple browsers and user-agents, quirks and solutions

Knowledge of browser internals such as Rendering engines, Parsing and DOM tree construction, Layout, Painting and optimizing techniques

Fluency in test-driven development, code reviews, distributed source code management and automated quality assurance

We'd love to see:

An interest in understanding user behavior using A/B tests and analytics and how that drives product design and decisions

Experience with web performance challenges delivering content to a global audience (progressive enhancement, performance budgets, SpeedIndex optimization, CDNs)

A passion for standardization, style guides and process efficiency and bias for action

Experience defining and developing highly available distributed systems

Contributions to any open source web projects or JS libraries