Who: DataSphere
Position: Senior Web Developer
Where: Seattle
What: DataSphere is looking for a Senior Web Developer for our LocalSaver.com consumer brand. The successful candidate will have experience working on a high-visibility site and have an eye for building a product that delights users, but also drives business. Knowing how to research and make a case for the required design/feature and keeping up to date with the latest trends in design, usability and technologies, will be critical for this role. If you have a passion for visualizing the user experience and building it from the ground up, we want to speak to you. You will be responsible for building a world-class user experience for this up-and-coming local savings website.
Responsibilities:
Build and own features on our web platform, move the platform forward, write high quality HTML/CSS/JS for mobile and desktop
Work closely with Program and Product Managers to gather design requirements, using LocalSaver’s brand guidelines as you build out new features and update existing designs to be more consumer-friendly
Help to implement A/B testing on new feature requests
Stay up-to-date on the latest web technologies, UX guidelines, trends in both mobility and mobile/desktop web, and up-and-coming technologies that could benefit LocalSaver.com
Experience or capability of leading a small group of web developers a big plus
Requirements:
5+ years of web development experience
Excellent attention to detail. You obsess about your code. Software testers can’t stand you because you’ve already thought through all of the use cases
You know design principles and patterns and are experienced in applying them
Be a platform thinker. You are way beyond writing well-structured code. You consider performance, scalability, share-ability, reusability and readability
You think as product owner. You constantly seek to improve user experiences and only rarely consider them truly done
Deep understanding of the tools (Visual Studio, Sublime Text, etc). You love keyboard shortcuts anything that makes you more efficient
Solid understanding of your craft. You’re a CSS, HTML and JavaScript expert, but more importantly, you understand the underlying principles and could apply them to any programming language
Experience in using or interacting with a server-side language. C#/.NET experience will be especially helpful, but also NodeJS, GO
Caring attitude and good communication. You believe people always come first and you live this out
Business-based mind that is capable of tying design decisions to expected metric outcomes
Ability to learn complicated systems quickly and maintain the knowledge across a team
Ability to interact successfully with cross-functional teams (Sales, Technology, Marketing, Finance) with ease
How: Apply Here
