Studio: Nintendo Co.
Job Opening: Web Developer
Location: Redmond, Washington State
Type: Contract
Responsibilities:
- Participates in all phases of the development life cycle, focusing on coding, testing, and debugging
- Works on the maintenance or enhancement of existing applications
- Researches evaluates, and analyzes technical and design requirements
- Participates in cross-functional discussions and effectively communicates information, both written and verbally to members of the project team
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of related tools, trends, and developments
- Works with team members to establish consistent development and documentation guidelines
- Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Documents all technology changes through appropriate change control
- Provides support and troubleshooting of previously developed technology solutions
- Participate in design brainstorming sessions, technical design reviews, formal code reviews, site QA, and functional demos
- Ensures work is completed in such a way as to comply with established J-SOX and other internal controls
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum four years experience developing scalable, high-volume, enterprise websites/applications
- Knowledge with HTML5, PHP, JavaScript, CSS3 and responsive design
- Ability to identify and quickly fix browser and desktop/mobile compatibility issues
- Familiarity with integrated development environments and version control systems such as SVN and GitHub
- Knowledge in SOAP- or REST-based web services, XML, and JSON a plus
- Strong understanding of site performance, web analytics, and SEO techniques
- Proficient and comfortable working on multi-tier applications
- Experience in Agile software development such as Scrum is helpful
- Excellent technical troubleshooting skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Expertise in interaction design, usability, and information architecture required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, or related field with equivalent relevant experience.
