Front End Engineer
Sony Pictures
Culver City, CAThis was removed by the employer on 3/19/2018 3:51:00 PM PST
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Full Time Job
Front End Engineer
The Digital Platform Group (DPG) at Sony Pictures Television/Crackle is looking for a Front-End Engineer to join its Engineering team in Culver City, CA. This Front-End Engineer will develop hybrid Video On-Demand applications for the DPG using the latest in front-end technologies. The qualified candidate must have strong experience with front-end development using HTML5 and popular JavaScript frameworks, including Angular and React. The team values well-architected, high-quality, and stable applications that provide functionality commonly seen in cutting-edge Over The Top streaming services.
In addition, this role requires a service oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with the SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues in timely manner.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop and maintain the HTML5 and JavaScript-based Hybrid VOD applications of the Digital Platform Group
• Take visual mock-ups and deliver optimized implementations using a variety of technologies including CSS, HTML, Ajax, Javascript, React and Redux
• Use expertise of front-end development practices, software design principles, OO concepts, SEO optimizations and UI design and general best practices
• Develop and maintain performance-optimized, cross-platform markup in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript
• Establish and maintain front-end application best practices and standards
• Develop functional prototypes to demonstrate concepts and to enable rapid iterative support for evaluative research
QUALIFICATIONS
• 5 years developing with advanced front-end Web Technologies including, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, and DOM based development
• 3 years developing with leading JavaScript frameworks (Backbone, Angular, React, Vue etc..)
• 2 years developing with Node.js
• Has a solid understanding of build tools like Grunt, Webpack, Gulp, Broccoli or Parcel
• Tests their code with tools like Jest, Enzyme, Mocha, Jasmine or QUnit
• Strong understanding of RESTFUL APIs
• Exercises rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
• Balances being product focused and engineering quality minded
• Understands and is thoughtful about tradeoffs
• Leverages and contributes to open source
• Experience with front-end optimization techniques (both in file weight and perceived/actual page rendering speed)
• Adept at creating semantic, clean HTML and using CSS to separate the markup from its presentation
• Advanced understanding of AJAX frameworks, REST and JSON
• Clear understanding of object-oriented application building experience
• Solid experience with cross-browser and cross-device compatibility
• Knowledge of security regarding common web site vulnerabilities
• Full stack development background
• A good eye for design and ability to match a designer's expectations
• Experience with Twitter Bootstrap and/or responsive design
• Well-developed time management skills with the ability to work very efficiently
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team
• Experience working with various debugging tools (Firebug, Chrome Web Development Tool, IE JavaScript debugger)
• Experience implementing internationalized web sites and pages that support multiple locales/languages
• Experience with mobile and responsive web development
• Experience with XML and similar markup languages
• Experience with delivering video content or other rich-media in an HTML5 context
*Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.
* Sony Pictures - CA - Culver City Area & Studios