Web Developer Job Description

Job Summary

The Web developer will custom design and develop our organizations website, as well as contributie to large projects with our distributed technology team

Duties:

• • Strong grasp of semantic markup and accessibility standards

  • Build a responsive website that look great and function properly on all devices

  • Ability to work independently on a project, or on a team with multiple developers

  • Strong attention to detail in order to achieve both the client’s and the designer’s vision

  • Enjoy learning from your team, and comfortable both giving and receiving feedback

  • Passion for sharing knowledge and desire to improve our team’s processes and tools

  • Capacity to work remotely while remaining on task

  • Experience with CSS and SVG animation

  • Willing to share links to some of your best code samples and can speak in detail about decisions made to achieve the desired result

Responsibilities:

• • Work with a distributed team to meet tight deadlines and manage multiple projects and timelines.

  • Develop websites independently or as part of a team in a modular and mobile first fashion.

  • Primarily work with the Google Sites, and Wordpress CMS using gulp as your task runner and SCSS for preprocessing.

  • Secondarily work with next-gen frameworks and compilers to build headless and hybrid websites.

  • Communicate clearly with project liaisons, teammates and clients.

  • Work closely with interaction and web designers to adhere to design specs.

  • Optimize code and images for performance.

Requirements:

• • Strong G Suite, Google Sites and Wordpress CMS knowledge

  • Comprehensive knowledge of HTML/CSS

  • Thorough knowledge of Javascript, independent of JS frameworks

  • Understanding of modular class structures and ability to write DRY code

  • Passion for sharing knowledge and desire to improve our team’s processes and tools

  • Comfortable using Git, and experience working in a repository with multiple developers

  • You have found a creative way to include the phrase Start at the Foundation in your cover letter

  • Experience with CSS and SVG animation

Preferred But Not Required:

• • Advanced knowledge of SCSS

  • Experience working on Pantheon’s hosting platform

  • Familiarity with task runners like gulp and grunt

  • JS frameworks (Angular, React, Express, etc.)

  • Ruby & Ruby on Rails

  • Middleman/Jekyll

  • Drupal

  • G Suite, Google Sites, Wordpress Plugin Authoring

  • Experience using Post-CSS