Job: Front-End Developer

Location: San Antonio, TX

COMPANY OVERVIEW Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the service leader in cloud computing. We deliver enterprise-class hybrid cloud infrastructures to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. We started in 1998 and we host hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. Rackspace combines public cloud, private cloud, and dedicated bare metal computing to provide the perfect infrastructure for each customer’s specific needs. And, the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud is powered by OpenStack® and backed by Fanatical Support. Learn More about Rackspace Visit Our Website

Front-End Developer Job    Apply Now >> Report this job JOB DESCRIPTION About Rackspace Rackspace® (NYSE: RAX) is the global leader in hybrid cloud and founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Hundreds of thousands of customers look to Rackspace to deliver the best-fit infrastructure for their IT needs, leveraging a product portfolio that allows workloads to run where they perform best—whether on the public cloud, private cloud, dedicated servers, or a combination of platforms. The company's award-winning Fanatical Support® helps customers successfully architect, deploy, and run their most critical applications. Headquartered in San Antonio, TX, Rackspace operates data centers on four continents. Rackspace is featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Overview & Responsibilities The Cloud Sites Team at Rackspace seeks a front-end web developer with a sharp visual design aesthetic, a passion for web technologies, and a strong sense of user-centered development & design. This individual would oversee and participate in the Front-end application development, user experience, and interaction design. We are looking for someone with a clear passion for learning, who is capable of strategic development & design thought in a fast-paced environment. Their strong sense of responsibility drives them to seek awesome technical solutions and clearly communicate tradeoffs with stakeholders. Responsibilities include: Translating functional development requirements into conceptual and detailed designs; Providing estimates for development effort; Implementing proof of concept, prototypes and production-grade software; creating unit and acceptance tests; coordinating sign-off from QA/Test; automating deployment; And assisting Engineering, Operations, Dev, and Support staff in trouble-shooting software issues as well as implementing bug fixes. Responsibilities: - front end development with ability to plan, coordinate, gather requirements and control quality of SW developed/ - Provide estimates for development effort. - Implement proof-of-concept, prototypes and production-grade software. - Create unit and acceptance tests, test-driven development - Perform production deployments. - Assist Engineering, Operations, Dev, and Support staff in troubleshooting issues, implementing bug fix and deploying platform hotfixes/upgrades. - Excellent communication skills to report program status/metrics etc - Adheres to established coding and process best practices - Ability to develop, adopt, and share quality improvement strategy JOB REQUIREMENTS The ideal candidate will have the following: - 5+ years of experience in commercial software development. - Experience in Front-end design and interaction (general design, HTML, CSS, Jquery) - Experience in application and API development and testing, including but not limited to MVC, Node.js, Angular JS, javascript; - Experience with SQL. - Experience with Agile and test-driven development methodologies; fanatical about software quality. - The position will be adapting existing Open Source projects for use in a large scale production environment. #LI-OD1 Options Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Rackspace is committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.      Apply Now >> Report this job