An exciting career opportunity exists for a Website Developer.  Join a highly effective SaaS software company develop advanced portal solutions for clients around the world.

The Website Developer will be responsible for planning, designing, creating and coding web pages, using both non-technical and technical skills to produce websites that fit requirements of our customer's and our stake-holders.  You will be involved in the technical and graphical aspects of pages, producing not just the look-and-feel of the website, but also to provide ideas to the Liferay development team, about how it should work (navigation, UI, UX, responsiveness, etc.). You are also responsible for the maintenance of existing sites.

Your primary focus will be front-end development and to ensure consistency in the design and use of templates, styles, web content and assets used across all of our sites.  You will also ensure our sites and emails can be used, and are rendered well, on a variety of devices, browsers and clients. You will learn how to leverage Liferay's UI and UX capabilities and Liferay's new Digital Experience services.

You have a high attention to detail and you are very task oriented and manage your time well.  You communicate effectively and clearly to your peers and supervisor about status, deliverables, new techniques learned, problems solved, etc.

• Learn and become highly proficient in the Liferay portal technology as it relates to customer experience, UI, UX, navigation, styles, responsive design, web content and assets
• Identify the needs & requirements of customers and our stake-holders and
  • Draw up detailed website specifications
  • Design sample page layouts / mock-ups
  • Design graphics, animations and manipulating digital photographs
• Present initial design ideas to software development manager, clients, product and stake-holders
• Code using a variety of software & tools
• Work with Liferay's asset and content management system
• Search engine optimisation
• Meet relevant legal requirements such as accessibility standards, freedom of information and privacy
• Design the website's visual imagery and ensuring it's in keeping with company branding policy or the requirements of the clients and stake-holders
• Proofread content and make changes where necessary
• Edit content, debug code (XSLT, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, etc.) and re-design web pages
• Work with other web specialists including web developers and graphic designers
• Liaise with outside agencies if required
• Assist in testing the website to ensure it is working
• Keep up-to-date with current design trends, Open Standards and website development tools and techniques (HTML5, XSLT, Zurb, jQuery, Ajax, Java Community Process (JCP), OSGi Alliance , OASIS, CMIS, WSRP, CXS, OpenSocial, etc.)
• Continual professional development to keep up to date with new software developments
• Ensure all new and modified code is committed regularly to our Git repositories
• Follow all processes & procedures related to deployment, patching, testing and code review
• Ensure all new and modified application code is developed and documented according to Khalibre's coding standards and in accordance with general best practice for HTML, CSS and Java development
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs as reported in our issue tracking systems.
• Provide status updates during daily Agile stand-ups and also to the Software Development Manger on a weekly basis
• Create monthly reports on project/task status, work completed, work in progress, short-term goals, and other relevant project information

• Graduates in Computer Science or related subjects like Mathematics or Applied Physics
• Programming skills - as noted above
• Knowledge of database access and management is preferred
• Some knowledge of use case and test script writing is preferred
• Proactive person
• Good attitude and values
• Knowledge sharing and good team player
• Customer oriented attitude
• Creative thinking and good problem solving abilities
• User interface design and implementation experience / knowledge
• Responsive tools and techniques - Alloy, Bootstrap, etc
• Graphic design - Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc
• JavaScript, HTML, HTML5, PHP, CSS, CSS3, jQuery, etc