Front-End Web Developer Jobs

Job Type: Full Time
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY Remote/Anywhere

Apply your passion for technology and nonprofits in our effort to provide web mobile and data solutions for social good. You’ll architect, implement, and evolve our client’s front-end systems along with our talented team of developers, consultants, and client project sponsors.

As a developer with influence on our projects, you’ll be challenged with the rewarding tasks of understanding our clients, curating amazing experiences, and delivering value.

Responsibilities

• Incorporate verbal and written feedback from other team members into existing projects
• Design and implement effective solutions that can be extended and built upon in the future
• Identify and solve issues in code
• Write documentation for the code and functionality of the designed solution
• Effectively manage deadlines on multiple tasks and respond to the changing priorities
• Use Git coding repository to regularly version and back up the code
• Review and write the requirements documents and implementation plans outlining designed solutions
• Perform functional and code testing on own projects and projects of other team members
• Apply best practices in responsive design, usability, accessibility and interactive design to projects
• Transform graphic designs into functional, high-performance websites using HTML, SASS, CSS and JavaScript technologies
• Continuously learn about new technologies and solutions and apply to daily work
• Write valid code that adheres to the WWC coding standards and is formatted in accordance with a provided coding style
• Work collaboratively with other team members to ensure the quality product and code are delivered
• Execute assigned tasks and projects in a timely manner

Qualifications

• Open source contributions or personal projects are a big plus
• Have work authorization to work in the United States
• Full proficiency in the English language
• Minimum 2 years of professional coding experience
• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience

Technical qualifications

• Familiarity with an MVC framework, we use Vue.js for many projects
• Proficiency in jQuery
• Full proficiency with HTML 5. Knowledge of BEM code naming and file organization is a plus
• Ability to use critical thinking in all aspects of the job
• Familiarity with ECMAScript 6
• Ability to read technical documents on coding standards and apply those standards to your own code
• Full proficiency in JavaScript
• Experience writing code for and implementing them in third-party systems; we work with nonprofit constituent relation management systems (CRM), and content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress & Drupal
• Full proficiency with CSS & SCSS
• Basic understanding of Git or another code versioning system