The Company
Basis Technology is a world-class text analytics company looking for a UI developer to join our applications team. Come build new software is used in identifying the sentiment of text, categorizing documents, parsing sentences, determining parts of speech and do this across 55 different human languages! Join us and help us create the next wave of software for NLP and text analytics.
The Role
Work as an integrated member of a multidisciplinary agile development team on Basis’s flagship products. Reporting to an engineering director, work with the development team to incrementally build out new features for a multifaceted text analytics service for the Cloud and Enterprise. The UI developer will focus on building the human interface with the backend service to allow easy adaptation, customization, configuration, sizing/tuning, and horizontal/vertical scalability.
Responsibilities
- Work with product manager and engineering product owners to define, design, and develop web-based user interface through iterations
- Identify and integrate best-of-breed 3rd party UI frameworks and libraries to bootstrap and accelerate development efforts
- Collaborate with backend engineers to implement RESTful interfaces for client/server communication
- Establish and execute design/coding convention and best practices for all Basis’ UI-centric applications
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience of design and developing modern web applications
- In-depth knowledge of HTML5, CSS, Javascript (jQuery), and one or more of the well-known frameworks such as AngularJS and React
- Practical experience in setting up a UI development environment from scratch with build and test automation
- Familiar with issues and solutions for cross-browser and mobile compatibility
- Experience with large scale enterprise software administration and configuration UI is highly desirable
- Experience with RESTful server implementation
- Java coding skills a plus
- Familiar with a Mac or Linux desktop environment, especially with command line utilities and scripting
- Strong visual, verbal and written communication skills