UX Expert with Front End Developer Skills – Work from Home –

An opportunity for a User Experience Expert with front end developer skills, to be contracted to a new offshore team located in the Philippines.

The business is looking to expand by building a new offshore team to meet the demands of a rapidly growing company. With the expansion, there will be an opportunity to showcase your skills within a technically skilled team environment.

You’ll have the opportunity to show creativity through your solutions and see how your work directly impacts users.

The successful candidate will report directly to a project manager (a Filipino national based in Australia) and will be reinvigorating the front end, with a specific focus on the usability of an existing large and successful software package.

About the Work

The development environment will be designed for developer efficiency and will include:

• Continuous builds
• Automated deployment
• Multiple test environments
• Issue tracking
• Code reviews
• High test coverage
• Support from experienced developers

Mandatory skills:

The successful applicant must demonstrate:

• At least five years of software development experience.
• Thorough/meticulous approach to maintaining code.
• Good written communication from reading and understanding requirements, to commenting code, to documenting processes and logging your work.
• Engaging in verbal communication, to discuss the software with various personnel, in terms appropriate to a person’s technical level.
• Excellent understanding of business in general, to better break down user goals into software requirements.

Required skills, backed by commercial or freelance experience:

• React.js
• User Experience Mapping
• AWS

Interested candidates should forward a resume with a covering letter outlining examples of how their skills relate to this role.