Ancestry.com is the world´s largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 13 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than one million subscribers to create nearly 16 million family trees that contain nearly 1.6 billion profiles, and make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.
With employees around the world, we are committed to hiring the very best talent. We are known for our cutting-edge technology, phenomenal innovation, and we offer a compelling and rewarding workplace where you will thrive. We seek out passionate people to join our mission of helping people discover, preserve and share their family history. We invite you to explore and discover the many opportunities that await you at Ancestry.com.
SENIOR UI WEB DEVELOPER – San Francisco (Background working with consumer facing applications and stable career background )
Ancestry.com is the world´s largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 13 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than one million subscribers to create nearly 16 million family trees that contain nearly 1.6 billion profiles, and make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.
With employees around the world, we are committed to hiring the very best talent. We are known for our cutting-edge technology, phenomenal innovation, and we offer a compelling and rewarding workplace where you will thrive. We seek out passionate people to join our mission of helping people discover, preserve and share their family history. We invite you to explore and discover the many opportunities that await you at Ancestry.com.
Job Description:
Ancestry.com is looking for a Senior UI Web Developer to join our team building a world class user interface for our web applications. An ideal candidate will have deep skills in Web Design and implementation with a passion for building great web-based user interfaces. This position will be based out of our San Francisco, California office.
Key Responsibilities / Performance Requirements:
Design and implement user interface for high performance, highly available, scalable web applications for use on Ancestry.com applications.
Collaborate with the design team to perform usability and user experience studies.
You will be responsible for working with cross-functional teams that include product management, marketing, and development teams to accomplish business objectives.
Create rapid prototypes of interfaces to be used as a blueprint for content and technical development.
Apply user-centered design methods to ensure an engaging, appropriate and usable social software and collaborative multimedia authoring applications.
Required Skills:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Background with either silverlight, Flex, Flash or javascript is important
5+ years experience with C#, ASP .Net, required.
5+ year's web experience; ability to design both structure and look and feel of data-driven web sites and web applications for ongoing production and maintenance.
Experience with MVC, SQL Server is preferred.
Knowledge of and experience in, interaction design and information architecture is a plus.
Experience with Agile software development methods is a plus.
Experience with user centered design and user research (ethnography, usability testing).
Excellent writing and communication skills.
Working for Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is a profitable, growing company with a positive, high-energy environment. Together, our dedicated teams are harnessing the power of technology and using it to simplify the way people connect with their families and their unique legacies. Our work environment is fast-paced and challenging, but also extremely exciting. You'll work with a team of passionate, engaged individuals. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity please send your information to Herbnj@gmail.com
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