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  • UI Developer

    UI Developer

    Starting date: ASAP
    Apply to: [email protected]
    Company name: Compete
    Country: US
    City: Boston, MA
    Working hours: 40 hours/week
    Context / Team: Solutions Architect

    Compete provides marketers with actionable digital intelligence to improve their online and offline marketing effectiveness.  Hundreds of clients, including the world’s leading brands, rely on Compete to help them create more effective websites and more targeted advertising campaigns.  Compete’s products include online measurement  tools available at Compete.com, as well as deep consumer and competitor insights in the automotive, consumer goods, financial services, media, retail, telecom and travel industries.
    Compete’s offerings are based on the online behavior and survey responses of millions of consumers, the largest integrated panel of its kind. Compete’s unique multi-source panel methodology and industry-leading data management practices ensure our panel is unmatched in its depth, quality and integrity.
    Our project – already under way - is an exciting, challenging initiative to build out a facility for generating insight on web behavior across multiple industry verticals for one of our most prestigious clients, one of the largest and most innovative companies in the world.  Underpinning this initiative is the development and integration of an exciting technology platform.  In this position, you will be a member of an pioneering team creating products central to Compete’s future.  Successful candidates will be able to bring both their experience and creativity into this fast-paced mix – and think on their feet.  

    The UI Developer will work with members of the Solutions Architecture team to build out advanced interfaces for managing complex representations of web behavior as well as other interfaces for managing requisitions of analytic studies.  This person plays a critical role, and will be responsible for working to help design, and build out, Django-based front-ends used by our clients, as well as internal teams at Compete. 

    Job requirements:

    • 1 year of experience building scalable, robust, highly available, high performing web applications using Python/Django and MySQL
    • Solid experience with cross-platform, browser compliant (X)HTML and CSS, DHTML/Javascript, AJAX, JSON, and other Web 2.0 technologies (experience with jQuery a plus)
    • Must be proficient working in Unix/Linux development environment
    • Passionate for building elegant, highly responsive user experience, detail oriented and great pride in every feature, font, and pixel you develop
    • Extensive appreciation of the aesthetics of code, documentation, and the user interface
    • Track record of designing and implementing high performance widgets