Junior Front-End Developer

Junior Front-End Developer

Developer
Cranston, RI
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)