Front End Web Developer

 Position "Floor" starts at $30.00/hour DOE

This position must follow all applicable Regulatory, Oregon Tilth regulations, Safety regulations, and GMP compliance at all times.

Supervised by: IT Director

General Description: This is a full-time position. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining websites and web application user interfaces, including the Mountain Rose Herbs ecommerce website. The Front End Web Developer (FED) will work closely with our back-end web development team, creative and marketing team, and internal IT team to create innovative solutions to web design issues to help make the web-based applications more visually appealing, responsive, and enhance usability.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities required:

  • Proven work experience as a Front-end developer
  • FED must have the ability to perform accurate work with a strong attention to detail
  • FED is expected to have the ability to perform accurate record keeping and data entry skills, strong typing and computer skills, and have legible handwriting.
  • FED must have good communicate skills and able to proactively communicate with the IT Director and other team members.
  • Technical writing skills used to document technical specifications and procedures is desired. Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
  • Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
  • Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, preferably JQuery, Handlebars.js, and Node.js
  • Experience using PHP hypertext preprocessor for web applications is a plus
  • Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
  • Proficient understanding of responsive and adaptive design
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
  • Basic understanding of command line interfaces like npm CLI and webpack CLI
  • Understanding of enterprise Ecommerce Platforms, such as BigCommerce is a plus
  • Working knowledge of the BigCommerce Stencil CLI theming engine and experience with BigCommerce “Cornerstone” based themes is preferred
  • Demonstrated usage of YAML Front Matter is a plus
  • Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them
  • Good understanding of Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager applications
  • Strong interpersonal skills and patience
  • Organizational, problem solving, and time-management skills
  • The ability to work independently and without direct supervision on a regular basis
  • High standard of professional integrity and honesty both on and off-site, and to maintain the confidentiality of Mountain Rose Herbs, as well as its employees
  • Willingness to learn and perform new procedures, equipment, and technologies

Essential Functions and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  1. Dependability: is consistently at work and on time, follows instructions, responds to management direction, and solicits feedback for improved performance
  2. Willingness to learn and perform new procedures, equipment, and technologies
  3. Write functional requirement documents and guides
  4. Create quality mockups and prototypes
  5. Develop features to enhance the user experience.
  6. Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
  7. Design mobile-based features
  8. Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
  9. Maintain and improve websites and web applications. Manage code bases in GitHub repositories
  10. Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
  11. Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency.
  12. Other duties as assigned

 Physical Requirements:

  • Lifting up to 50 pounds or more
  • Pushing a mobile cart
  • Working in a fast pace environment
  • Exposure to herb dust and strong aromatics
  • Eyesight to see the screen and read small fonts and numbers for an extended period
  • Dexterity to hook up fine wiring and plug-ins
  • Sitting for long periods at a computer station
  • Extensive walking, stair climbing, bending, crawling, heights, and working in tight spaces

 Equipment used includes but not limited to:

  • Computer
  • Software: Must be proficient in and demonstrate a clear understanding of: MS Office 365, MS Windows 10, GitHub, Web Development Tools, Photo Editing Tools, Cloud Hosting Service (AWS, Azure, etc.). Familiarity with FileMaker desirable
  • Printer / scanner / Fax
  • Filing equipment

 

 



 

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