Web developer

The ideal candidate for this position is a hands-on professional with strong knowledge of content management platforms especially woo-commerce and an ability to consistently raising the bar on creativity and user experiences. The web developer will work alongside a team and independently in the creation, maintenance, and updates of our website and have an immediate effect on our brand.

Objectives of this Role

• Consistently create well-designed, tested code using best practices for website development, including mobile and responsive site design
• Create websites and user interfaces, using standard HTML/CSS practices, while incorporating data from back-end databases and services
• Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs
• Develop or validate testing schedules, addressing all browsers and devices to ensure various computers can access content
• Maintain updated knowledge of new and emerging industry trends and technology

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Meet regularly with business stakeholders and management to understand and refine business and functional requirements and determine project scopes and specifications
• Develop and maintain strategic operational systems, tools, and processes, including participation in tactical and strategic development projects
• Ensure software stability via regression, support quality assurance, and perform unit and user-acceptance testing to identify bugs and ensure production operations run successfully
• Work quickly and carefully to complete small edits requested by management, develop plans for completing larger projects, collaborate with colleagues, and suggest new solutions to improve existing website
• Perform UI designs and coding, creating reusable objects and templates, wireframes for web pages and email templates; manage maintenance, updates, expansions, and scaling of each design
• Perform regular file backups to local directories for recovery

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in web design, multimedia design, or related field
• Experience planning and developing websites across multiple products and organizations
• Working knowledge of web applications, programming languages, and web services, such as APIs, CSS, CSS3, cross-browser compatibility, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, security principles, REST, SOAP, and web user interface design (UI)
• Proficiency with content management systems, including WordPress and Drupal
• Dedication to innovative, sophisticated designs and collaborative problem solving
• Working experience in Windows and Linux environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with eCommerce and D2C
• Proven success in a project coordination role
• Experience implementing and using modern web development workflows and operations using a variety of tools including GitHub