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.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
