Northwest Media Collective Inc is a creative web agency in Vancouver, WA currently seeking a part-time web developer. This role will grow to a full-time position after an initial two months trial and training period.
NWMC, founded in 2013, services national and local brands, predominantly on WordPress. Your work in this position includes multi-month projects for these clients organized into sprints, and ticket work on smaller client requests. Front-end development and project management are the top needs for the role. Our goal as a company is to give our clients an awesome experience, and we work as a team to make this a reality each day.
Your Benefits & Perks
- Competitive compensation, including generous PTO and Sick Leave policies
- We invest in our developers: Continuing Education, mentorship by senior devs, and learn from internal documentation of our best practices.
- Flexible remote work policy
- Located in the Vantechy downtown Vancouver wa
- Upward mobility in a growing company (50% client growth year over year).
Your Typical Day
- Working with Project Managers on flow of work and setting of expectations
- Employing modern development tools such as HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, WordPress/development/, staging/production environments, version control and backups.
- Testing, catching mistkaes, then testing again
- Juggling 6 to 10 projects in various states of completion
- Assisting Biz Dev in scoping new work
Your Qualifications
- 2+ years experience and proven track record as Front End Engineer, Web Developer, UI Developer or similar role, demonstrated with a portfolio of work
- Involvement in the wider developer community, e.g., open source contributions, attending Meetups, etc.
- Ability to code pixel-perfect layouts
- WordPress expertise, particularly theme and plugin development (WooCommerce experience is a big plus)
- Self-starting problem solver
- Comfortable juggling multiple, competing tasks
- Knowledge of git for version control
- Familiarity with work with a web server, particularly cPanel and Terminal/SSH
- Experience with unit testing and automation
- Attention to detail, so please be sure to mention “wizard” somewhere in your initial contact with us
- Cross browser testing experience
- Knowledge of design principles and usability for mobile and web-based front end engineering