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Role Summary

The Front End Developer will be responsible for making our company’s digital products shine. Not only will you be our in-house code-writing guru, you will make the digital magic happen. You will be responsible for what our users experience every time they visit our website and online courses — from content to presentation to behavior.

Core Responsibilities:

Partner with our company’s existing web development agency (external)
Develop highly functional and visually appealing web experience based on usability
Provide website maintenance and enhancements
Write functional requirement documents and specifications
Create quality mockups and prototypes on tight timelines
Assist with troubleshooting as issues arise
Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
Promote usability best practices

Important Attributes, Leadership and Teamwork

Experience selling digital products (not required, but helpful)
Strong communication skills
Strong writing skills
Prior experience briefing designers
Ability to prioritize well and oversee several projects at the same time
Good at sharing a vision to enlist team to do whatever it takes to accomplish project outcomes
Self-Leadership skills
Leadership skills in communication, and team collaboration

Necessary Technical Skills

HTML
CSS and SASS
jQuery
Ability to read WordPress-based PHP templates
Experience working with a Git-based workflow
Understanding of basic Gulp task workflow

Desired Technical Skills

Semantic HTML
Modern CSS standards including: grid, flexbox, responsive images
JavaScript ES5+
Experience with Twig templating language

Cultural Behaviors and Team-wide Standards

Self-motivated and strong self-starter, pro-actively taking initiative to make consistent progress and achieve results in their role
Flexible and able to change roles and “wear multiple hats” as needed to drive outcomes and support the team
Coachable and able to change attitudes and modify behavior to work better with the team
High transparency and open information sharing, across all roles and functions
Demonstrates the Company’s principles and values through behavior
Strong team playing to meet team outcomes
Strong people skills, demonstrated by actively cultivating resilient relationships with mutual high regard and trust
Extremely responsive in all communications, especially to other team members