Information Technology Roles at Farmcrowdy

Contract Duration: Full - time
Reports to: VP Technology, CEO

Duties

• Responsible for Front End design.
• Facilitate Farmcrowdy’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up into intuitive user experiences for digital products
• Defining and Implementing innovative solutions for product direction, visuals and experience.
• Executing all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off.
• Conceptualizing Original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic designs and user-experience decisions related to core, new functions and features
• Take a user centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback.
• Adhere to established design guidelines, best practices and standards.

Core Competencies
Ideal candidates for this role will have:

• Minimum of 3 years experience and proven track record.
• Strong portfolio to be presented and defended during interview.
• Proven UI/UX experience on any E-commerce platform or in a similar capacity
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite; Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
• A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first responsive design
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas and solutions.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design.
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Present and defend your design decisions. All design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. colour theory, visual weight. Etc.)
• Ability to meet target deadlines

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Reports to: CTO

The Role

• We are looking for an outstanding Web Developer who will be responsible for the coding, modifying websites from layout to function according to given specifications.
• The successful candidate will create functional sites that feature user-friendly design and clear navigation.

Duties

• Defining and Implementing innovative solutions for product direction, functionality and experience
• Executing all web development stages from concept to final hand-off
• Conceptualizing Original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex development roadblocks
• Identify development problems and devise functional solutions
• Take a user centered development approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas
• Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
• Establish and promote development guidelines, best practices and standards

Core Competencies
Ideal candidates for this role will have:

• Minimum of 3 years experience and proven track record
• Strong portfolio to be presented and defended during interview
• Proven Web Development experience on any E-commerce/WordPress platform or in a similar capacity
• Good experience in creating process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in modern development technologies: HTML5, CSS, JQeury, PHP, Wordpress, Bootstrap, Frameworks (Laravel/Codelgniter) & JavaScript for rapid prototyping
• Proficiency in Database Management Systems: MySQL
• Proficiency in Mobile Application Development (Optional): Android, iOS, WindowsPhone
• A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design.
• Up-to-date with the latest Web Development trends, techniques, and technologies
• Present and defend your design decisions. All design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles.
• Ability to meet target deadlines.