Remote ES6 contract jobs

Based in Louisville Kentucky, KBD is a growing branding and web agency that partners primarily with venture capital firms and enterprise technology companies to build compelling brands and cutting edge digital experiences. We typically create 15-20 medium-sized, B2B sites per year with a very small team for extremely high profile clients. We are looking to expand our web development team immediately to accommodate for increasing demand. This is a remote, contract-based position, with the option for full employment.

Responsibilities:

• Build responsive WordPress themes from scratch, and maintain previously built sites

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

• Understand and implement ACF to add editing features to custom themes

• Write and maintain clean and composed Javascript (Functional/modular, ES6/7, Webpack/Gulp, Animations)

• Write and maintain clean and composed CSS/SASS

• Q/A and test sites across multiple browsers and devices

• Optimize websites and applications for maximum speed and scalability

• Communicate clearly with the design team and development team, as well as project stakeholders

• Setup a basic webserver

• Build flexible email templates in multiple environments

General Requirements:

• Minimum 2-3 years of front-end development experience, with demonstrated work building in WordPress

• Extensive knowledge of HTML5, CSS3/SASS, PHP, Javascript

• Familiarity with responsive design, cross-browser and device testing

• Experience with Git

• Experience with command line (SSH) and web servers: Nginx and Apache

• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

• Experience writing flexible email templates in integrated marketing management frameworks (Marketo, Hubspot, Mailchimp, etc.)

• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools (Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator), to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image

• Keen sense of aesthetic

• Detail-oriented

• Deadline driven

• Flexible, adaptive, and able to thrive in a collaborative startup environment

Bonus Points For:

• HTML5 Canvas animations and interactions

• Headless CMS alternatives to WordPress

• Leadership and mentoring skills for Junior Developers

• Creative problem solving

Application Process:

Candidates should submit a resume and portfolio via Indeed. For more info on KBD, visit wearekbd.com.

KBD provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, genetic information, or any other protected class established by law. In addition to federal law requirements, KBD complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Experience:

• WordPress: 3 years (Required)
• web development: 4 years (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Language:

• English (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Working Days:

• Monday (Required)
• Tuesday (Required)
• Wednesday (Required)
• Thursday (Required)
• Friday (Required)

Contract Length:

• 3 - 4 months

Contract Renewal:

• Possible

Work Location:

• Fully Remote

Benefits:

• None

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• 8 hour shift

Company's website:

• wearekbd.com

Benefit Conditions:

• Only full-time employees eligible

Description:

This role is with our client, a Global Entertainment / Media Enterprise. We highly prefer candidates LOCAL to Metropolitan Seattle area at this time.

The consumer identity teams provide critical consumer facing access and identification services across The company business units. Nearly every digital consumer experience across the company relies on this consumer identity product for mission critical business operations, including booking vacations, playing fantasy football, buying products from company's online store and many more. These identity services are responsible for over 300 million guests and fan accounts, and billions of transactions per year.

Our team…
* Collaborative and dynamic
* We embrace agile practices
* Full stack teams
* Continuous integration/Automated testing
* Frequent working software demos

About you…
* enjoy highly collaborative and dynamic team environments
* have a strong sense of ownership and pride in your work
* are self motivated and detail oriented
* are driven to produce great user experiences

Basic Qualifications:
(Web) Position minimum qualifications…
* 3+ years professional software development experience
* 1+ years experience delivering single page apps or progressive web apps
* 1+ years experience with React, Angular, Vue or another modern javascript framework
* 1+ years hands on experience with automated end-to-end testing across various browsers and devices
* demonstrated excellence with complex javascript challenges
* experience designing for highly visited sites and complex caching

Experience with some or all of the following:
* ES6
* React/Redux
* Sass
* Webpack
* Jest
* Mocha
* Chai
* Puppeteer
* Saucelabs
* Node
* Docker
* GitLab
* AWS

Preferred Qualifications:
* experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (preferred)

* BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree (preferred)

Responsibilities:
* work as part of a team
* participate in stand-ups and other sprint meetings
* design solutions
* document changes and new features
* plan the sprints
* deliver code with thorough automated testing
* integrate and verify
* release to the world

Required Education:
BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Additional Notes:
Web Development only. Front end developer who will be working on a full stack team (both front and backend developers on team).

PLEASE NOTE, although we are in a state of remote work, we prefer to see candidates from Seattle as this person would most likely return to the office when clearance has been given.

NO H1-B sponsorship available for this role.

H4, L2, TN Visas, EADs are OK.

Only candidates who agree to work on apLumina's W2, need to apply.

No third party candidates.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $55.00 - $65.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Health Insurance

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Application Question:

• 1. Are you local to Seattle Area? (Yes/No)

2. Will you need a visa to work? (Yes/No)

Contract Length:

• 1 year

Work Location:

• One location

Visa Sponsorship Potentially Available:

• No: Not providing sponsorship for this job

This Job Is:

• A job for which all ages, including older job seekers, are encouraged to apply
• Open to applicants who do not have a college diploma
• A job for which people with disabilities are encouraged to apply

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Benefit Conditions:

• Waiting period may apply

Work Remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19