UX Designer / Front-End Web Developer

COMSOL is seeking a motivated and talented front-end web developer to join our team in Burlington, MA. You will be part of a group tasked with maintaining the current version of comsol.com and the company intranet, redesigning and rethinking sections of our website, and building brand new web interfaces and tools to improve company workflow and data management. We are proud to produce all of our web, marketing, and design collateral in-house and take the time to create high-quality pieces that follow the latest trends and best practices.

This Role Entails

• Designing and building front-end web experiences for COMSOL’s customers and employees
• Rapidly prototyping your ideas
• Creating UI mock-ups
• Studying and understanding existing systems, pages, and tools, so as to improve or rebuild them
• Taking our highly technical and scientific content and presenting it in a clean and easy-to-understand manner
• Collaborating with graphic designers, technical writers, marketing staff, and back-end developers
• Creating HTML emails using a responsive template system

Required Skills

• Knowledge of UI best practices and design
• Familiarity with UX research and testing methodologies
• HTML and CSS expertise; LESS familiarity desired
• Clean coding habits
• Adobe® Photoshop® or Illustrator® proficiency
• Balsamiq® Mockups or similar prototyping tool proficiency
• Experience with Bootstrap and responsive design
• Working knowledge of Git
• Applicants must submit a portfolio of work to be considered
  

Helpful Qualifications

• JavaScript® and jQuery® are extremely helpful, but not expressly required
• Experience working with a PHP-based back-end
• Experience working on corporate or high-volume websites
• A background in graphic design and/or user experience

Our Dev Environment

• Git (Source Tree optional)
• Zend Framework®
• Zend Studio® (Eclipse Based IDE) or Sublime Text editor
• JIRA® and Confluence®
• LESS CSS Preprocessor