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Junior Web Developer Loc: Los Angeles, CA


2016-05-19 09:09:33
Job Type: Full Time only
Budget $: 100,000 - 200,000

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Serve as an evangelist for our mission, brand, and content through thought leadership, content creation, and digital operations.
  • Work closely with the Director of Communications and Digital Campaigns & Strategies
  • Manager to implement and refine our comprehensive web strategy.
  • Manage numerous Wordpress-powered properties and work with peers to keep sites fresh and functional
  • Create website layout/user interface by using standard HTML/CSS practices
  • Create and maintain web/software documentation
  • Be responsible for maintaining, expanding, and scaling our site
  • Cooperate with graphic designer to match visual design intent
  • Integrate data from various back-end services and databases into web experiences
  • Gathering requirements and project specifications
  • Attend and participate in project kickoff meetings with colleagues
  • Develop user friendly and intuitive web enabled front-ends to display reports, graphs, and metrics
  • Work with various APIs, including Facebook API, Twitter API, Salesforce API, etc.
  • Document operational configurations, processes and procedures
  • Integrate designs into a content management system
  • Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
  • Working with the team to define functional end-user requirements and architectural requirements for specified system design
  • Regularly report on analytics of these sites
  • Other tasks as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Proficient in WordPress platform, including a solid grasp of themes, API and ability to handle maintenance, installation, backups, etc.
  • Deep expertise and hands on experience with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and APIs.
  • Hands on design experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc ..) is needed to be successful in this position.
  • Familiarity with at least one of the following programming languages: PHP, JavaScript or Ruby on Rails
  • A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
  • Deep understanding of web-related behaviors and trends, and the ability to optimize for them.
  • Experience with data-driven SEO analysis and optimization.
  • Hands-on experience with network diagnostics, network analytics tools
  • Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills
  • Experience as a Front End/UI Developer building web applications using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
  • Creation of site layout/user interface from provided design concepts by using best practices.
  • Solid understanding of web application development processes, from the layout/user interface to relational database structures.
  • Ability to communicate directly with peers, managers, and clients while leading development to a completed and successful solution.
  • Skilled in pixel perfect frontend coding> Strong communication and writing skills.
  • Degree in computer science or a related field

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