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Opportunity description
Google is looking for a UX Engineer to join its team in Seattle, WA, USA or in Kirkland, WA, USA.
As a UX Engineer, you work on the front end of the products and the features used by millions of people every day. The work is challenging, fast paced, and always changing. You have strong analytical skills, an unwavering commitment to quality, a collaborative work ethic, and cutting edge coding skills. You should live and breathe the fundamentals of JavaScript (not just jQuery), CSS, and HTML, and command an impressive portfolio of web technologies new and old - all in order to launch innovative features to a global audience.
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Responsibilities:
- Work closely with UX designers, project managers and back-end engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to tricky web development issues.
- Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices in order to push the limits of what a browser can do.
- Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.
- Launch, iterate and make a difference. Provide front-end coding expertise, and be ready to make the products better for users.
- Design and develop the front ends of user-facing products.
Minimum qualifications:
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, HCI, Design, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of relevant work experience in software development.
- Experience with web technologies (object-oriented JavaScript, HTML, CSS), and experience with the latest web standards including HTML5 and CSS3.
- Experience designing and implementing complex UIs.
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Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (such as Backbone, Angular, or Ember) and CSS pre-processing frameworks (such as Sass or Less).
- Experience with a scripting language, such as Python, Ruby, etc.
- Experience with user-interface design.
- Strong sense of web design and attuned to the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility.
- Ability to communicate to all levels of users (internal and external), strong problem-solving skills, adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership.
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