We're Hiring
Front-End Developer
We’re on the hunt for a bright part-time Front-End Developer who is excited about building awesome interfaces for forward-thinking clients. Front-end developers at S+W specialize in the critical role of marrying our core strengths: strategy, design and development. You’ll always have a variety of projects to work on, and your skills and creativity will be pushed to the limit. Web design and development aren't just things we can do, they're our focus and passion.
This role is 100% remote, but we are looking for someone who is US-based and has worked remotely, either currently or in the past, and knows the benefits and the challenges. East Coast preferred or available during typical East Coast business hours. Bonus points if you’re local to the Hampton Roads, VA area.
Primary Responsibilities
Work with designers and developers to craft online experiences
Communicate and collaborate with both technical or non-technical team members
Contribute to and help manage our existing codebases
Write clean, maintainable, and well organized code
Required Qualifications
Skilled in front-end web development via HTML, CSS and Javascript
Skilled in using CSS pre-processors (SASS, LESS)
Confidence breaking down a Photoshop, Sketch or Figma design, extracting assets, and building front-end interfaces that come alive
Keen eye for details, such as the difference between font weights and spacial relationships between elements
Competence within version control systems (GIT)
Familiarity with Javascript frameworks and libraries such as Alpine, Vue, etc.
Familiarity with CSS tools/frameworks such as Tailwind, Bootstrap and Foundation
Knowledge of web standards, responsive design and cross-browser compatibility
Self-motivating, self-directing and a good communicator
Effective time management when working on multiple projects
Confident communicating tasking estimation and progress regularly to a project manager
Nice to Haves
Experience using Craft CMS building complete solutions, using plugins and developing plugins when necessary
Experience using Craft Commerce building e-commerce solutions
Experience using ExpressionEngine 2/3/4/5+ building complete solutions and maintaining current ones
Experience using Shopify building and/or editing themes and managing stores
Agency or client-focused web experience
Familiarity with back-end languages
Experience with wire-framing, prototyping and rapid iterations
Design experience
Who You Are
Smart: You have a broad skill set and learn new technologies quickly
Passionate: You’re driven to build great things of the highest quality and put it into the world
Collaborative: You excel working both within a team and cross-functionally with other teams
Loyal: You will take up arms (Nerfguns) to defend your team against attackers
Humble: you’re not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about your mistakes
Progressive: You continually look for ways to improve your process, skills and ideas
Why You’ll Love Us
We choose our clients carefully and deeply care about their success
We work reasonable hours and believe very strongly in work-life balance
We work on everything from cool start-up businesses to global corporations
We’re a small, tight-knit, team that loves our work + life outside of work
We have strong core values that align w/ honest, humble and loyal work for our clients and team
We believe in personal and professional growth and support that whenever and however we can
We’re growing and you’ll have a serious opportunity to help chart our path
The Opportunity
At this time, we're looking for someone with at least 15-20 hours of availability each week to get the ball rolling and see how well we work together. You will have the choice of joining our team as an employee, or collaborating as a contractor.
How to Apply
Feel like you’re the perfect developer for the job? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Shoot an email to jobs@secondandwest.com and let us know:
Why you’re a good fit
Links to a portfolio or projects that demonstrate thoughtful and well-executed work
What experience you have from the required skills list above (be specific)
What experience you have from the nice-to-haves list above (if applicable)
When you’d be available to start, if chosen
Your requested salary/hourly rate
How you found this opening
What your current work load consists of: FT/PT gig elsewhere, freelancer, side hustler
Since this position requires attention to detail and effective communication, skipping any of the above will cause your inquiry to be ignored. Feel free to include anything additional that may help us in getting to know you, such as a personal blog, Instagram feed, or more.
We’re looking forward to meeting you!
Send serious inquiries only, no recruiters.
We're always interested in meeting interesting and talented people. Aside from the opening above, if you're working on something amazing that you think we should know about, feel free to send over examples of your work to jobs@secondandwest.com.