Responsibilities:
- Use HTML / CSS / JavaScript to develop visually stunning user-driven websites without a WYSIWYG editor
- Maintain familiarity with content management and eCommerce solutions such as Drupal, WordPress, and Magento
- Work within current creative team to develop and maintain highly visible client web sites
- Developing and supporting reusable internal tools to support the design and sales departments
- Set up, manage, and configure hosting environments
- Proactively perform cross-browser testing and optimizations
- Maintain well-documented, reusable, and transferrable code
- Maintain working knowledge of new development software, trends, and practices related to your responsibilities
Requirements and Qualifications:
- 3+ years of full time experience with primary duties focus on web design and front-end development in a production environment
- Analytical thinker and problem solver, ability to come up with solutions to diverse problems
- Ability to create high-quality designs and build into a functioning browser compatible website, using proper markup, CSS and argument with interactive features using JS, jQuery, etc.
- At least 3 years of experience working with open source CMS such as Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla
- Superior understanding of Drupal and Drupal modules is required
- Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery), & PHP
- Familiar with MySQL and SQL database infrastructure
- Cross-browser and cross-platform compatible design and development
- Expert understanding of the latest and legacy browser capabilities, including mobile
- Familiar with formal QA methodologies, processes and techniques
- Design software power-user (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
- Experience designing within a grid framework
- Adept at making pixel perfect sites that meet design/technical requirements
- Experience and knowledge with SEO best practices
- Analytical problem solving skills and attention to detail
Bonus Qualifications:
- Existing agency experience
- Experience connecting to third-party info using various API techniques
- ASP experience
- Responsive design experience using media queries and/or frameworks
- Experience with device specific design and development
- Functional knowledge of performance optimization techniques