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.