Jr Front-end Developer in First Ascent

Job Published on: February 3rd, 2021
Job closing date: February 13th, 2021

Available to applicants based in Continent(s): Central or South America

Years of Experience: 1+

At First Ascent, we build impactful brands and execute beautiful digital experiences. Our clients work in a wide range of industries and our scopes include strategy, branding, website design and development, content creation, and full-service digital marketing.

We are looking for driven, precise, and focused developers for maintaining and creating custom codebases built around WordPress. We are NOT theme editors and we stress front-end expertise and an understanding of object-oriented programming as minimum requirements.

We are a company that believes in training and will help train new hires. If you believe you’ll need help on a particular topic, let me know.

Responsibilities Include:

• Manage day to day needs of the public website from content adjustments and plugin updates, to minor bug fixes
• Work alongside other developers and clearly communicate progress, as well as track work through Git
• Develop additional UI components for needed technology apart from the public website
• Routine maintenance and updates for 80+ maintained sites and servers
• Managing Digital Ocean server and deployment processes
• Custom Theme development
• Custom Plugin development (The WordPress Way)
• Setting up ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) fieldsets for page editors
• WordPress Gutenberg custom blocks
• WooCommerce experience a plus
• Maintaining / Updating a theme
• Write semantic, easy-to-read, valid code
• Digital Marketing tie-ins with development, e.g. Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Schema.org, Google Data Studio
• API integrations

Qualifications:

• A portfolio of front-end development
• A meticulous eye for detail
• We accept no less than excellent communication
• Ability to clearly follow instructions
• High level of organization
• Willingness to learn
• Strong conceptual and creative thinking
• Comfort working closely with a team and receiving constructive feedback from multiple parties
• Ability to self manage multiple projects and deliverables at the same time
• Entrepreneurial mentality, comfort in a fast-paced environment, and desire to constantly learn and improve
• Strict adherence to timelines
• An understanding of design principles is a plus

Typical Technology Stack

• HTML5/CSS3, SCSS, JS, JQuery, PHP, git, AJAX
• Vagrant / Virtual Box
• WordPress Theming and Plugin Development
• Underscores.me, Bootstrap, Bourbon, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
• BASH shell, wp-cli

Support Suite

• We use the tools here to collaborate: Asana | G Suite | Google Drive | Slack | Clockify | Dropbox

Benefits and Perks

Interested? Apply now!