UI/Web Developer

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Key technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, Jquery, Axure, Proto.io, Balsamic, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch

Key skillset: 

• ability to take design files and deliver fully functional front-end prototypes 
• ability to integrate into PP frameworks and build front-end experiences 
• ability to work with back-end services and architecture to connect the front-end
• pixel asset creation and ability to work closely with UX and visual designer

Top Three Skills:

1) Experience with HTML/CSS/JS, Jquery, 

2) Experience Axure, Proto.io, Balsamic, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch

3) Experience creating protototypes from design assets

Job Description:

PayPal’s design community is creating highly functional and beautiful experiences to transform payments and change the world. We are committed to design principles that emphasize creativity, craftsmanship, simplicity and delight.

We are looking for a Design Technologist to build highly-nuanced, well crafted and functional prototypes as part of the design process and PayPal’s forward looking design language. The ideal candidate will have had experience working closely with designers, content writers, and product owners to iterate rapidly to deliver interactive prototypes on the leading platforms (Web, iOS, Android).

Primary Responsibilities

• Ability to take design files and deliver fully functional front-end prototypes, 
  
• Ability to integrate into PP frameworks and build front-end experiences, 
• Ability to work with back-end services and architecture to connect the front-end
• Pixel asset creation and ability to work closely with UX and visual designers
• Day to day support and working relationship with the design team to build out flows and experiences
• Ability to take wireframes, visual mockups, and content specs in order to build out highly interactive prototypes
• Development of responsive web and native mobile apps for usability research and demos
• Support during usability testing for rapid iteration
• Communication and documentation of front-end requirements to back-end development teams

Job Requirements

• High proficiency in Swift and/or mobile native programming languages
  
• Knowledge and understanding of programming design patterns
• Knowledge and understanding of frameworks used in developer environment
• Knowledge and understanding of mainstream 3rd-party frameworks
• Membership and active access to troubleshooting resources ie: Stackoverflow
• Proficiency in GIT
• High proficiency in image editing software, preferably the Adobe Suite collection as it encapsulates various tools used for design development
• Proficiency in use or knowledge of mainstream wireframing/mock-up software ie: Sketch, Balsamiq etc.

Desired cognitive abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively both to designers and engineers using concepts and terminology mainstream to those disciplines
  
• When called for -- the ability to execute rapid prototyping techniques by offsetting quality of code for quantity for proof of concepts
• When timeline permits -- the ability to engineer and develop excellent code structure for long-term reusability
• The ability to competently apply a design style across an app UI even without the full set of design documentation
• The ability to correct flawed graphic assets sent from designers when time is not in abundance and/or communication with design team is not possible.
• Creatively solve programming or design problems as an individual or as part of a collective
• Rapid learning techniques when asked to learn a new paradigm
• Mental endurance when tight deadlines are required

1. Good comm skills are a big priority
2. Duration: 6+ Months

3. Candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills