NYC, Any
Front End Web Developer
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Role Summary
The Front End Developer will be responsible for making our company’s digital products shine. Not only will you be our in-house code-writing guru, you will make the digital magic happen. You will be responsible for what our users experience every time they visit our website and online courses — from content to presentation to behavior.
Core Responsibilities:
- Partner with our company’s existing web development agency (external)
- Develop highly functional and visually appealing web experience based on usability
- Provide website maintenance and enhancements
- Write functional requirement documents and specifications
- Create quality mockups and prototypes on tight timelines
- Assist with troubleshooting as issues arise
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
- Promote usability best practices
Important Attributes, Leadership and Teamwork
- Experience selling digital products (not required, but helpful)
- Strong communication skills
- Strong writing skills
- Prior experience briefing designers
- Ability to prioritize well and oversee several projects at the same time
- Good at sharing a vision to enlist team to do whatever it takes to accomplish project outcomes
- Self-Leadership skills
- Leadership skills in communication, and team collaboration
Necessary Technical Skills
- HTML
- CSS and SASS
- jQuery
- Ability to read WordPress-based PHP templates
- Experience working with a Git-based workflow
- Understanding of basic Gulp task workflow
Desired Technical Skills
- Semantic HTML
- Modern CSS standards including: grid, flexbox, responsive images
- JavaScript ES5+
- Experience with Twig templating language
Cultural Behaviors and Team-wide Standards
- Self-motivated and strong self-starter, pro-actively taking initiative to make consistent progress and achieve results in their role
- Flexible and able to change roles and "wear multiple hats" as needed to drive outcomes and support the team
- Coachable and able to change attitudes and modify behavior to work better with the team
- High transparency and open information sharing, across all roles and functions
- Demonstrates the Company's principles and values through behavior
- Strong team playing to meet team outcomes
- Strong people skills, demonstrated by actively cultivating resilient relationships with mutual high regard and trust
- Extremely responsive in all communications, especially to other team members
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