Principal GUI Engineer

To Apply: careers@attivio.com

Date Posted: Friday September 03, 2010

Company: Attivio

Location: Newton, MA

Department:  Engineering

JOB TITLE:  Principal GUI Engineer

Location:   Newton, MA 

 

Company Description

Attivio is revolutionizing the way data is aggregated, searched, and analyzed as the leader in the emerging unified information access market. Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) is powering today's critical business solutions with a completely new approach to unifying information access. By extending enterprise search capabilities across documents, data and media, AIE brings depth and agility to business applications and websites.  – www.attivio.com

 

Description:

We are looking for a Principal GUI Engineer with 6+ years of experience developing cutting-edge GUIs.  We're looking for someone that can bring a strong UI vision and develop high-quality software at a fast pace.

You should enjoy working with small, tight-knit teams of highly skilled developers.  You should be a passionate engineer with a broad range of programming skills, however you should have recent experience with some of the latest best of breed UI technologies, such as: GWT, JQuery, Prototype, MVC-style, framework, AJAX, RIA (Flash/Flex) , Rapid Web Development frameworks (Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Groovy/Grails) and/or Web Services (REST, SOAP). 

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and lead our new end user and administer GUI initiatives
• Provide recommendations on feature set and technical infrastructure for projects and new system modules
• User experience design, including wireframes, storyboards, and use cases development
• Find opportunities to take advantage of existing platforms & communities to improve our products

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or relevant experience
• A portfolio of relevant work
• 6+ years experience developing cutting edge GUIs
• Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
• Be motivated to work independently and over-deliver
• Communicate early and often with team members and management
• Experience with Business Intelligence or Search UI development a plus.

 

Additional Information:

 

Technologies We Work With

 

• HTML (standards compliant), CSS, Javascript
• AJAX Libraries – Prototype, JQuery, DWR
• Grails, Velocity, MVC.NET, GWT
• Adobe Flash, Flex, AIR and Actionscript
• Java 6
• GUI Testing Tools: Selenium, HTTPUnit, HTMLUnit, GUnit, FlexMonkey