Junior Front-End Developer

Summary/Objective

The Junior Front-End Developer will be responsible for defining and using best practices in order to take the lead in maintaining and improving the firm's B2C website.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Research, plan, develop, collaborate, and document website related projects; communicate and collaborate with project leads and other software developers on multiple, simultaneous projects
• Guide and support the maintenance and enhancement of our current B2C and blog sites; taking into consideration frontend layout and user experience
• Participate in interfacing with Digital, IT and Development teams to gather requirements, define scope of work, prioritize workload, communicate timeline and manage expectations
• Create new functionalities, enhancements, maintenance, and testing
• Adjust themes for templates, layouts, CSS, Javascript, and other components of the front end of a Magento site
• Partner with the Marketing team in converting digital assets to web ready formats
• Take a lead role in establishing and documenting website processes, functionalities, development standards and common components for usage across all applications

Competencies

• Total Work Systems
• Technical Learning
• Customer Focus
• Functional/Technical Skills
• Organizational Agility

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences or Engineering required and/or equivalent of 2+ years of experience
• Knowledge of current/emerging web technologies: HTML5/CSS3, JS, JS Framework (i.e.: Angular, React, Backbone, etc.), jQuery, and GIT
• Experience developing responsive/adaptive layouts
• Must have experience working in terminal
• Knowledge of various JS libraries that can improve/speed up development
• Ability to write high-performance, reusable code for UI components
• Passion for pixel perfect
• Portfolio of work showing experience developing standards-compliant front-end code for web and mobile web
• Experience developing for Magento E-Commerce (1-2+ years)
• WordPress experience preferred
• Image processing applications (Ps, Ai, Id)