Junior Front-End Developper

Junior Front-End Developer - Job Description Title

Junior Front-End Developer

Software Development Manager

Canada

The Junior Front End Developer assists in designing and implementing the online end-user experience as well as current and future corporate and brand website presence. Working closely with the other Front-End Developer and with the Marketing and IT teams, the Junior Front End Developer is responsible for balancing the esthetic and functionality while realizing the vision for the company’s publicly accessible websites.

• Accountability and Dependability
• Autonomy
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Customer Focus
• Detail Orientated and Precision
• Development and Continual Learning
• Problem Solving
• Quality Orientation
• Result Focus
• Teamwork
• Time Management

• Coordinate tasks across different departments and stakeholders to advance projects and initiatives.
• Work with the website owners to prioritize and implement functionality enhancements, bug fixes and design glitches.
• Assist in creating and reviewing mobile first, state of the art website wireframes.
• Work with the graphic design team to develop the graphic page elements.
• Create and maintain cascading style sheets (CSS) to ensure design consistency across all websites.
• Build reusable code to facilitate the implementation of visual standards across all websites and optimize project delivery speed.
• Collaborate with Marketing to implement and maintain Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) website requirements.
• Ensure that the corporate and brand design guidelines are consistent throughout the websites.
• Perform website content updates where the CMS fails to allow site owners to maintain the content themselves.
• Collaborate with back-end developers to implement pages with dynamic content and service side functionality.
• Assist in testing and troubleshooting bugs and anomalies with website pages and functionality.
• Collaborate with the infrastructure team for production code releases and infrastructure related performance issues.
• Stay up to date on new emerging web and design technologies.

• Bachelor or college degree in Computer Science, Web Development, Software Development or equivalent.
• Minimum 1 year of related experience or a completed internship.
• Knowledge of shopping platform Shopify from the administrative point of view is essential.
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies, tools and best practices.
• Knowledge of object-oriented software development languages.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Services, Visual Studio and development tools.
• Knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
• Knowledge of Content Management System (CMS) such as Word Press.
• Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work well under pressure and meet set deadlines.
• Demonstrated aptitude for learning new technologies.

• Occasional overtime required.
• Business casual dress code.