Web Developer - Remote

NAVA Software solutions is looking for a Web Developer

Details:


Web Developer


Location: 100% Remote


Duration: 6-12 months

JOB DESCRIPTION
Our position is equal parts consultant and technical specialist. As a valued temporary member of the team, you work directly with business partners to assist them in designing engaging and compelling web experiences to realize their objectives. Your technical skills will be challenged to deliver a user-friendly, stable, fast, and scalable experience.

• Marketing Department Support: Content Creation and Maintenance
• Upload and maintain content using a CMS system.
• Design and display web content for enterprise web applications, including advisor workstation, Intranet, marketing automation system, static web sites, and email marketing campaigns.
• Create interactive experiences to support marketing campaigns, employee engagement, and communications.
• Periodic audit of content to identify dated, irrelevant, and out-of-brand materials. Work with business partners to update, remove or verify accuracy of existing content.
• Application Team Support: Interface Design and User Experience Guidance
• Assist the IT team by designing user interface layer for web-based applications.
• Build interactions to consume JSON data in a presentation layer using JQuery/HTML/CSS and other technologies.
• Develop and maintain web guidelines.
• Participate in QA testing and PROD approvals as necessary to support application releases.
• Cross-browser compatibility verification and standards validation.
• Troubleshoot display issues and provide solutions.

General Requirements

• Candidate must have a genuine interest in the latest technologies and development practices.
• Turn out exceptional work in weeks, not months using rapid-prototyping and Agile processes.
• Manage multiple projects and adhere to tight deadlines without any sacrifice in quality or user experience.
• Ability to create tableless CSS designs.
• Experience building and managing multiple web properties, including static, dynamic, and CMS-driven sites.
• Interaction with project managers, IT professionals, business partners and marketing executives on a frequent basis.
• Understanding the design fundamentals of mobile first and responsive design.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Be a go-to person with an understanding that the outcome will exceed expectations.
• A motivated, self-starter that can listen to objectives or read requirements and present viable solutions with little oversight.
• Work within a defined development process.
• Work independently or as a key member of a team.
• Prepare technical documentation and update knowledge base as required.
• Project management principles, including status reporting to PMO office.

Technical Skills Required

• Working with CMS systems (Alfresco and Drupal 8) for management and deployment of content, including HTML fragment development, CMS template design/deployment/integration.
• Proficiency of Web-based programming languages such as HTML (including HTML 5), CSS 2/3 (must be able to provide sample work).
• Understand best practices to improve speed, degrading gracefully, and compatibility.
• Ability to code layouts using HTML/CSS (no table designs).
• Creating responsive designs.
• Integration/interaction with Salesforce, CMS, marketing automation systems, using REST services/Web API.
• Absorb JSON information into presentation layer.
• Knowledge of the DOM HTML objects and their properties.
• Knowledge of Web activities and internet techniques.
• Knowledge of e-mail marketing technical requirements.
• Knowledge of technical requirements for banner promotion (pay per click, paid inclusion, pay per conversion) and behavior metric tracking techniques.
• Build using Model-View-Controller (MVC) methodologies.
• Programming JavaScript as an object-oriented language.
• Knowledge of CSS/JavaScript frameworks and preprocessing (Sass/LESS).
• Knowledge and understanding of Node.js, Angular.js, Backbone, and Bootstrap.
• Understanding of server protocols/management.
• Conceptual understanding of programming techniques specific to front-end development
• Interact with key stakeholders at all business levels, including executive staff

ADDITIONAL INFO:
All candidates must pass a very extensive fingerprinting check (more thorough than typical background check) as well as credit check.