Lead User Interface Engineer New York, NY

Ideal characteristics:

• Function as a subject matter expert and be able to lead by example
• Solid experience with analyzing requirements rapidly, conducting heuristic reviews, and employing highly usable UI paradigms
• Manage timelines and resources in order to deliver projects on time
• Extensive prototyping skills with interactive visualization technologies such as Flash, DHTML, CSS, etc
• Experience designing and developing innovative charts and graphics for analytic or business intelligence products
• Demonstrate initiative and strong mentorship skills
• Be driven by a desire to solve difficult problems and deliver results
• Tenacious attention to detail
• Proven track record in bringing innovative products to market
• Demonstrated ability to plan, conduct, and analyze the results of end user validation exercises
• Translate proposals and project plans into strong conceptual design solutions that both meet consumer needs and internal business goals while maintaining a user-centric perspective
• Be a strong advocate of web standards
• Passionately follow the release and adoption of new technologies and frameworks and demonstrate conversational knowledge of industry trends
   

Requirements:

• Strong background in UI/HCI, interactive design, and advanced visualizations
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Human Factors, Human Interface Design, Graphic Design or related degree
• 7+ years of software development experience, preferably with Java
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented design and development
• Demonstrable experience with 3 or more JavaScript frameworks (Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, Yahoo! UI Utilities, ext, OpenRico, jQuery, CSSQuery, Other DOM Query APIs, Backbase)
• Expert HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript skills
• Experience with 3 or more of the following Ajax topics (Back button, history, and bookmarks; Single-page interface; XPath targeting; Comprehensive event model; State and the observer pattern)
• Good understanding of web application development with Java and the Servlet and JSP specifications
• Experience with Java presentation frameworks such as Spring, JSF, Seam, and Struts is a big plus
• Experience with web graphic creation and optimization (should be proficient using PhotoShop, Image Ready, Illustrator)
• Experience with Flash
• Expert knowledge of cross-browser, cross-platform implementation techniques
• Comfortable with version control, development process, bug tracking, coding standards and other aspects of the standard software development lifecycle