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Front End Web Developer
Requisition ID 26230
As the world's number one Internet brand Yahoo! delivers news, entertainment, information and fun to over a half billion people every day. Our European web development team, based in London, is seeking standards-savvy front-end developers to work on Europe's busiest sites.
You should be able to provide examples of your work showing use of progressive enhancement techniques (e.g. unobtrusive scripting), and clear separation of structure, presentation and behaviour layers.
Basic knowledge of security and performance issues / Responsibilities
You will work closely with Information Architects, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to ensure that our web based products in Europe provide the best possible experience for our users.
Skills/Requirements:
Hand-coded (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Solid knowledge of standards-based, accessible, cross-browser web development
Basic PHP or other front-end language (e.g. Python, Perl, Ruby) programming skills
Experience in developing web applications with rich client interfaces using AJAX, drag and drop, and other DOM Scripting techniques.
Experience with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, Prototype, and especially the YUI
PHP programming skills
Experience developing functionality/applications by assembling existing code modules
User-level experience with *IX-style command line (BSD/Linux)
Experience using version control systems such as CVS & Subversion, including branching and merging
Experience with bug tracking software
Client– and server–side performance optimisation techniques
Search engine optimisation
Ability to comprehend and apply industry standards (e.g. RFCs, W3C Recommendations)
Experience of Web Services (e.g. REST, JSON)
Experience of development throughout the product life cycle — new development through maintenance, redesign and end-of-life
Understanding of Test-Driven Development
Knowledge of Yahoo! development methodologies
Experience using Apache, MySQL or other RDBMS, and web frameworks such as Symfony, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Django or Ruby on Rails
Knowledge of the following development aids: Selenium, PHPUnit
Experience writing documentation for own work
Experience working on a distributed development team
Location
London
United Kingdom
Organization:
Website:
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