Description
UpTrending is looking for an experienced Front-End Web UI Developer to grow with our team. Our design and engineering team is an upbeat crew of skilled digital craftspeople, located all around the world. You will be an essential team member, transforming client goals into attractive, usable web experiences for all browser-enabled devices.
Who You Are
You’re a creative visual thinker with a pragmatic streak and knack for the technical. You have an intuitive sense of excellence from a design and user experience standpoint, matched only by your nimble ability to turn designs into pixel-perfect (or em-perfect) reality.
Who We Are
UpTrending is a technologist-centric digital agency, originally founded in Silicon Valley to service the marketing needs of venture-backed B2B software startups. Our clients include SAAS products, big data, AI and data security companies. We are experts in the marketing of B2B technology businesses, with our core service offering of strategy, website design, development and marketing integrations.
UpTrending has been a globally distributed team for our entire history. Though our HQ is now planted in Southern California, we have core team members across the globe from engineering to leadership.
We are growing our expert team to support the increasingly complex needs of enterprise-scale clients, and incubating game-changing data products of our own.
What You’ll Do
As a Developer at UpTrending, you’ll be working as part of a passionate team to supercharge the business of intelligent technology brands and translate their message into polished elegance in any medium.
Reporting to our Director of Technology, you’ll work with our Project Managers to act as the lead UI developer across several client accounts while mentoring others in our dev team along the way.
Requirements
5+ years of professional experience with Web Development
Demonstrated expertise in responsive, semantic HTML5, CSS, SASS, JavaScript and jQuery
Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal)
3-5 years of experience developing with PHP and Wordpress
Expertise in 3+ software languages/frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, PHP, Python)
Complete understanding of git branching, merging and rebasing; familiarity with git-flow
Strong proficiency with MySQL databases
Pixel-perfect attention to visual detail
Expert ability in mobile responsive, and optimizing for different devices and browsers
Knowledge of servers, staging vs local environments and build tools including Gulp, npm
Experience with front-end marketing requirements - including optimization, SEO, analytics, marketing automation and event tracking (e.g. Google Analytics Events, Google Tag Manager, Marketo, Hubspot, Salesforce)
Excellent analytical skills to innovate ideas with our team and troubleshoot frontend issues for our clients
BA/BS degree or higher, or a combination of education and applicable experience
Reside within a 5-hour time difference of USA Pacific timezone, year-round
An overall positive attitude, with a passion for coding and taking pride in your work
A Big Plus
Deep knowledge of Bootstrap, SASS, Wordpress, Rest APIs, Angular and/or React
Clean, organized code and DRY principles
Recent experience in a digital agency environment, working with a project manager
Design education or professional experience as a UI or UX designer
Familiarity with tech startups and online marketing technology
Passion for writing good tech documentation and enforcing process
Knowledge of Jira, kanban and Agile best practice
Prior experience with frontend for an MVC such as Laravel, Django, Ruby on Rails
Degree in computer science, or interaction design
A passion for learning and keeping up with the latest trends
Unicorns Will Have
Experience building re-usable Wordpress themes and extensive knowledge of Wordpress
Knowledgeable in serverless architecture and flat-file CMS systems
Experience with web animation and motion graphics
Prior experience as a mentor or team lead, or as a client-facing dev
Experienced with systems and/or DevOps tasks - rebooting servers via SSH, CI tools etc
Have built your own tooling or build tasks
Worked for both tech product startups AND agencies alike
Slack power-user
Able to work on-site at our HQ in Westlake Village, CA
The Perks
Remote OK
Work alongside a positive, professional and ego-free team with a high bar for good work
Competitive salary
Flexible vacation policy
Application Process
Please send your resume and a casual cover letter letting us know who you are
Provide any links to your website / portfolio
Include a link to Github, LinkedIn, Twitter or other social profile
Please be prepared to provide code samples during interview process
We look forward to hearing from you!
No phone calls or recruiters please.
