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Job: Music Co - Senior Web Developer / Front End Engineer (FEE) - NYC
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SUMMARY
The Senior Web Developer/ Web Designer will play a leadership role in creating web sites and online products that will help shape the digital future of the music industry.
POSITION OVERVIEW
Lead client side programming for the web initiatives of a music major.
This role will design front end architectures and program the structure, presentation and behavioral layers of large scale music web sites, digital products and social apps/ widgets experienced by millions of passionate fans.
The successful candidate will leverage experience gained at a top-tier consumer Internet company to bring their expertise in standards based web design, front end technologies (XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and Web 2.0 techniques (Ajax, web service APIs and social networking platforms) to a major music company.
This is a fun job, working with User Experience (UX) teams, Product managers, Graphic designers, backend System Engineers and label executives who are shaking up the online music industry.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Artist Web Sites
* Develop web sites for major artists, newly signed acts and marketing initiatives.
Digital Music Products
* Prototype and create new forms of User Experience (UX) that will define the future of music.
Web Design Sensibilities
* Work closely with the User Experience Design (UED) to translate layouts into production sites.
- Use expert level XHTML and CSS skills to design and develop sites.
- Create *pixel perfect* layouts from Photoshop comps.
- Write code and utilize hacks that ensure cross browser compatible layouts.
Front End Engineering
* Apply object oriented analysis and design techniques and rigorous development methodologies to the front end engineering activities of the company.
Skills
Consumer Internet, Online Music and Social Media Experience
* Must have track record working on cutting edge projects in consumer services, online communities, online entertainment, social networks or apps/ widgets/ iPhone apps.
* Experience with dynamic consumer site features like user registration, validating user data, displaying user submitted HTML, file uploads, thumbnails and image galleries.
* Social networking experience developing on OpenSocial, Facebook Platform/ Open Graph and the iPhone/ Android platforms - using profile data, media sharing, friend lists/ social graph data, chat and messaging.
* Experience with consumer Internet properties, including business priorities like programming to be SEO friendly, collecting web metrics and conversion optimization.
* Familiarity with best practices related to usability, accessibility and internationalization. (X)HTML / CSS Expertise
* Strong understanding of contemporary web design and working on top-tier web teams.
* Deep expertise in HTML up to and including using appropriate semantic markup for SEO.
* Expert understanding of CSS, including using box model for standards compliant layouts.
JavaScript Experience
* Understanding of the proper use of JavaScript to create a behavioral layer that
complements the structural layer (XHTML) and presentation layer (CSS).
* Experience with .JS and DHTML libraries (Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, Rico or Dojo).
* Understanding of JavaScript fundamentals like JavaScript syntax and structures.
* Ability to write scripts that do not interfere with other code and objects, through the appropriate use of namespaces, variables and functions.
* Ability to architect unobtrusive JavaScript usage on a corporate scale, implementing methods and standards across many projects and multi-disciplinary programmer teams.
* In-depth knowledge of DOM manipulation with Ajax/ JSON / XML / and the XMLHttpRequest () object * across browsers, GET and POST
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Computer Science / Production Engineering Perspective
* Experience working directly with business logic programmers, System Admin and DBA groups to integrate sites and features with dynamic backends corporate infrastructure.
* Experience working in environments with disciplined approaches to security, commenting, documentation, file structures and linking to external JS / CSS files.
* Must have at least 2 years experience in a hard core web production job.
* CS degree preferred.
Company Description
Major Music Company...Work on a great team and a fun job, working with User Experience (UX) teams, Product managers, Graphic designers, backend System Engineers and label executives who are shaking up the online music industry.
SUMMARY
The Senior Web Developer/ Web Designer will play a leadership role in creating web sites and online products that will help shape the digital future of the music industry.
POSITION OVERVIEW
Lead client side programming for the web initiatives of a music major.
This role will design front end architectures and program the structure, presentation and behavioral layers of large scale music web sites, digital products and social apps/ widgets experienced by millions of passionate fans.
The successful candidate will leverage experience gained at a top-tier consumer Internet company to bring their expertise in standards based web design, front end technologies (XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and Web 2.0 techniques (Ajax, web service APIs and social networking platforms) to a major music company.
This is a fun job, working with User Experience (UX) teams, Product managers, Graphic designers, backend System Engineers and label executives who are shaking up the online music industry.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Artist Web Sites
* Develop web sites for major artists, newly signed acts and marketing initiatives.
Digital Music Products
* Prototype and create new forms of User Experience (UX) that will define the future of music.
Web Design Sensibilities
* Work closely with the User Experience Design (UED) to translate layouts into production sites.
- Use expert level XHTML and CSS skills to design and develop sites.
- Create *pixel perfect* layouts from Photoshop comps.
- Write code and utilize hacks that ensure cross browser compatible layouts.
Front End Engineering
* Apply object oriented analysis and design techniques and rigorous development methodologies to the front end engineering activities of the company.
Skills
Consumer Internet, Online Music and Social Media Experience
* Must have track record working on cutting edge projects in consumer services, online communities, online entertainment, social networks or apps/ widgets/ iPhone apps.
* Experience with dynamic consumer site features like user registration, validating user data, displaying user submitted HTML, file uploads, thumbnails and image galleries.
* Social networking experience developing on OpenSocial, Facebook Platform/ Open Graph and the iPhone/ Android platforms - using profile data, media sharing, friend lists/ social graph data, chat and messaging.
* Experience with consumer Internet properties, including business priorities like programming to be SEO friendly, collecting web metrics and conversion optimization.
* Familiarity with best practices related to usability, accessibility and internationalization. (X)HTML / CSS Expertise
* Strong understanding of contemporary web design and working on top-tier web teams.
* Deep expertise in HTML up to and including using appropriate semantic markup for SEO.
* Expert understanding of CSS, including using box model for standards compliant layouts.
JavaScript Experience
* Understanding of the proper use of JavaScript to create a behavioral layer that
complements the structural layer (XHTML) and presentation layer (CSS).
* Experience with .JS and DHTML libraries (Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, Rico or Dojo).
* Understanding of JavaScript fundamentals like JavaScript syntax and structures.
* Ability to write scripts that do not interfere with other code and objects, through the appropriate use of namespaces, variables and functions.
* Ability to architect unobtrusive JavaScript usage on a corporate scale, implementing methods and standards across many projects and multi-disciplinary programmer teams.
* In-depth knowledge of DOM manipulation with Ajax/ JSON / XML / and the XMLHttpRequest () object * across browsers, GET and POST
.Computer Science / Production Engineering Perspective
* Experience working directly with business logic programmers, System Admin and DBA groups to integrate sites and features with dynamic backends corporate infrastructure.
* Experience working in environments with disciplined approaches to security, commenting, documentation, file structures and linking to external JS / CSS files.
* Must have at least 2 years experience in a hard core web production job.
* CS degree preferred.
Company Description
Major Music Company...Work on a great team and a fun job, working with User Experience (UX) teams, Product managers, Graphic designers, backend System Engineers and label executives who are shaking up the online music industry.
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