About BrandEd
BrandEd is a leading player in the alternative, experiential education space. We partner with the world's largest, and most well-known brands to create and run schools that capture the legacy and value of each brand. We provide our students with a truly unique once in a lifetime experience that will help shape their future and give them the skills they need to reach their goals.
Job Description
BrandEd is looking for a mid to senior level Front-End Developer for a 4-month contract (with potential to extend), 20 hours per week, remote.
You will work in an ever-growing, fast-paced environment impacting everything web related from our school websites to our registration system.
You’ll work alongside our highly experienced and talented interdisciplinary team to analyze, architect, and build solutions based on business needs.
You’ll work on multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize workload effectively under tight deadlines. You have good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, attention to detail, and good presentation skills.
Responsibilities
- Work with other Front-End Developers, IT, and MarTech to build and maintain public-facing websites, micro-sites, landing pages, and email templates.
- Work with project owners and UX/UI designers to ensure technical feasibility of designs and translate them into pixel perfect websites and features that maintain our brands’ unique identities.
- Write and maintain performant, semantic code with an emphasis on reusability, cross-browser compatibility, and SEO.
- Help define development processes and best practices to improve the team’s project workflow.
- Stay on top of emerging development trends and promote the use of new technologies in our projects where applicable.
Requirements
- 5+ years front end web development experience, with expertise in HTML, CSS/Sass, JavaScript/jQuery, PHP, WordPress, Github and task runners like GulpJS or similar.
- The ability to create WordPress sites from scratch.
- Strong UX/UI sensibilities and a desire to sweat the small stuff.
- Working knowledge and capabilities with web design tools like Figma, Sketch, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Experience with Advance Custom Fields is a huge plus but not required.
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries like React or Vue is a plus but not required.
- UI design experience is a plus but not required.
- Experience with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant development is a plus but not required.
- Passionate about writing clean, modern, maintainable, and highly performant code.
- Pro-active, self-starter who’s ready to troubleshoot and solve problems when they arise.
- Strong communicator who’s positive, collaborative, objective, and solution-oriented – no egos please!