Front End Development – Consultant

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Job Title

Front End Development – Consultant

Job Summary

We are looking for an exceptional Front-End Developer to work with our cross-functional team, and join our world-class community of talented experts.

Job Responsibility:

• Work with Project management and solution architects to estimate and scope out projects.

• Work with Creative team during planning, discovery and production phase.

• Work with backend development team to create and optimize solution.

• Optimizing code for performance.

• Comment code and produce documentation to industry standards as needed.

• Produce code to the highest standards while adhering to industry accepted architecture and design pattern techniques and methodologies (e.g., MVC, SOA, OOP, DI etc.)

• Create rapid high-fidelity prototypes using UI Frameworks while working with creative teams.

Ideally you will have

• At least 6+ years of experience in building Frontend Applications

• At least 2+ years of experience with React JS and/or Angular JS and/or Vue JS

• Good understanding of OOPs concepts.

• Strong hands-on knowledge on HTML5, CSS3, ES6+

• Strong understanding of the React Virtual DOM, JSX and API

• Hands on experience on REST APIs, GraphQL and WebSocket

• Experience with a State-management framework like Redux (with middleware) or MobX

• Comfortable with concepts like Container/Presentation components, Higher Order Components

• Worked with UI libraries like Material-UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap or similar

• Good understanding of CSS in JS, aka scoped-css or Styled Components

• Unit testing with Karma + Mocha or Jest

• Experience working with client-side templating languages like Handlebars, Mustache or similar.

• Experience on working with frontend build systems and automating the same using Grunt / Gulp

• Experience on MVC frameworks (Backbone.js, or similar) and knowledge of common JavaScript design patterns will be good to have

• Experience of working with server-side JavaScript frameworks based on Node.js

• Exposure to Style Guides, Atomic Design

• Exposure to Design tools like Sketch, Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer

• Good verbal and written communication in English

Additional good to have

• Comfortable with one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Swift, PHP

• DevOps skills like good understanding of Shell commands, deployment, system updates, security configurations of web servers and Docker configurations.

• Fair understanding of React Native and/or Cordova/PhoneGap/Ionic

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.  We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.