Senior Web Developer

The Senior Web Developer is focused on creating, enhancing, and supporting website properties for Aquent and its subsidiaries, the main users of which include current and potential clients, job seekers, and internal staff. The developer is part of a larger cross-departmental team that includes product development, project management, design, research, and quality assurance. They provide leadership for development strategy and technology assessment and deployment.

CORE COMPETENCIES / SOFT SKILLS

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Must have experience with working in a team environment

• Must participate in continual learning relevant to web development (courses, conferences, independent projects, etc.)

• Demonstrate an attitude of teamwork and shared responsibility, along with a drive to teach and review the work of others

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to remain task oriented in an remote environment

MEASURING SUCCESS

• Contribute regularly to code repositories and reviews

• Assist in providing training and encouragement to other developers

• Pursue and develop techniques to improve page performance and SERP rankings

• Increase test coverage of front end codebase

VALUES & BEHAVIORS

We Before Me

• Openly share your knowledge

• Give others your support and suggestions

• Show appreciation for the support you get
  
  

Keep Growing

• Expose yourself to fresh ideas and thinking

• Seek out feedback and practice receiving it

• Ask how you can make it better today than yesterday
  
  

Own It

• Do what you say you will do

• Lead the conversation, come up with ideas and solutions

• Stay motivated to be on top of your game
  
  

Make It Matter

• Be an enemy of average

• Give it your all, everytime

• Do it with passion

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES

• Implement new website features, including some or all of the following: CMS configuration, server-side development, front-end markup, and styling

• Maintenance and bug-fixes for existing features

• Performing and participating in team code reviews and work-in-progress feature demos

• Applying and contributing to our team’s development standards and practices

• Interacting with and maintaining code management repositories

• Managing user stories and tasks in the project management platform to indicate work progress

• Working with QA resources to debug and correct issues

• Interacting with and improving continuous delivery systems

• Participate in stand ups, team planning, retrospectives, and other Agile development meetings

• Communicating with team members and other parts of the Aquent organization to remove barriers to progress

• User support, including CMS training for new users

• Participating in an on-call rotation for off-hours incident response

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS

• Has a bachelor's degree in a web development related field and/or work experience of at least 7 years
• Must have experience with front-end development technologies and methodologies
• Must have experience with CMS configuration and administration
•  Specifically WordPress and Gutenberg development
• Advanced experience with front-end development technologie
•  HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, React, Responsive Design, Automated Testing
• Advanced experience with web development standards
•  Code Standards, Frameworks, Methodologies, Accessibility, Documentation
• Demonstrated experience with web content management system configuration and administration
• Demonstrated familiarity with relational database architecture
• Demonstrated familiarity with Amazon Web Services features
• Advanced experience with web QA
• Testing, Debugging, Cross-Browser Support
• Advanced experience with other toolsVersion Control, Design Tools, Project Management Systems, Build Tools