User Interface/Application Engineer UpTake

Overview:
We are looking for an outstanding application engineer with strong web-tier development skills. Candidate has desire to have direct influence on the direction and quality of the leading travel search engine.

Responsibilities:
Develop application features with a focus on the UI experience, contribute to interaction and visual design of user features, performance measurement and tuning, A/B testing. In addition the successful candidate will assist in the development and maintenance of frameworks for web-tier development,

Experience (required):

- 5 years web application development experience with at least 2 years experience at a high-traffic consumer web site
- Ability to do rapid prototyping of new features in parallel with design
- Passion for the development of high-quality web UI
- 4 years experience XHTML, HTML CSS
- 4 years plus experience working with and resolving cross-browser compatibility issues
- 4 years experience JavaScript/Ajax
- Hands-on experience doing widgets mash-ups, such as Google Maps, Flickr Photo Widget, or similar.
- Front-end optimization experience
- Ability to convert visual designs/wireframes into HTML
- Ability to shift gears quickly

Experience (ideal):

- Hands-on experience with JSON and JavaScript support libraries such as jQuery, prototype, scriptaculous.
- Experience with mid-tier technologies: Web Services, XML, SOAP, SAX, Ruby on Rails, Active Record and/or J2EE technologies including EJB, Spring, Hibernate
- Design/Prototyping Tools: Photoshop/GIMP, Flash
- Debugging Tools: YSlow and Firebug
- SQL, UNIX, Ant, Maven, Rake, jUnit.

Location:	654 High Street Suite 220 Palo Alto, CA 94301 United States