Who: The Seattle Times
Position: Front-End Web Developer
Where: Seattle
What: Are you always looking for ways to trim page weight while bringing elegant, beautiful user experiences to life across a range of devices and form factors? Do you like the idea of building efficient, accessible and reusable front-end interfaces that will be used to convey everything from breaking news to sports scores to advertising? If you are passionate about delivering experiences that will engage millions of people, and you have the know-how to produce clean code that promotes usability and adheres to the latest standards, The Seattle Times wants to talk to you.
Responsibilities:
- Build compelling user experiences and interfaces; create both production-ready code and prototypes.
- Create and maintain templates, user interfaces and interactive content presentations that work seamlessly across device types.
- Pioneer innovative web interactions and applications for presenting news and information and be able to distinguish between what can be done and what should be done.
- Work with engineering, news, and product teams on concept development, prototypes, technology innovations and process improvements.
- Research and identify evolving media, technology and design innovations and opportunities; work with partners across the organization to assess and implement new ideas.
- Create and maintain shared components and frameworks to be used across development teams.
- Collaborate effectively with UX designers and other dev teams to propose and evaluate design initiatives and champion exceptional front-end implementation.
Requirements:
- Expert-level understanding of front-end web technologies (including HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, LESS/Sass).
- Fluency in the principles of responsive web design and mobile development frameworks.
- Extensive cross-browser and cross-device development experience.
- Proficiency with WordPress themes and plugins is desired.
- Enthusiasm for emerging standards, tools and techniques coupled with a healthy skepticism of unproven technologies.
- Proficiency in the use of modern product development processes and revision control tools.
- Passion for building world-class user experiences.
- Strong interpersonal and problem solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree; technical background preferred.
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