The person in this role should combine exceptional coding skills with leading-edge design chops and has the moxie to meet this challenge
This person should have both a talent and a passion for building beautiful, lightning-fast user-focused content, and doesn’t mind innovating along the way
GiddyUp's engineers are expected to have a high degree of leadership and expertise in their daily work, strongly hold defensible ideas, and advocate for what they believe is right
Experience with any PHP framework e.g
YII or Laravel is a huge plus
Experience with Craft CMS is ideal
Collaboration & Teamwork: works collaboratively with managers, colleagues, and external stakeholders to achieve identified goals and objectives; works to create alignment across teams; is consistent, predictable, and easy to work with
Communication: conveys information in a clear, accurate, and appropriate way in verbal and written communications; considers tone, attitude, and intention when communicating with a coworker, group or external stakeholder; acknowledges that one’s experience and opinion is one’s own
Ownership: takes ownership of work, projects, challenges and outcomes; fulfills commitments and addresses blockers; is self-directed and consistent in meeting job requirements and objectives
Technological Fluency: is proficient in the use of work-related software, technology, and tools required to perform one or more of the responsibilities related to one’s role; stays up to speed on new technologies and leverages technology to increase productivity and efficiency
Adaptability: Ability to meet the changing technical landscape, continually evolve skills, learn knew technologies, and embrace new development processes
Software Development: The ability to plan, design, create, amend, verify, test and document new and amended software components in order to deliver agreed value to stakeholders
Velocity: Ability to meet the velocity needs of the business, measured by the the number of story points an employee achieves each sprint
Heavily customized PHP based Craft CMS backend
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, visual, design or related field or experience
5+ years of development experience with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
A portfolio of Web design work you’ve done
Experience with browser testing and debugging
In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
Deep understanding of layout aesthetics
Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator and content management systems
Knowledge of relational database design
Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
Understanding of design patterns
Experience with test driven development
Responsibilities
The person in this role will also work closely with developers to implement their server-side code in order to develop complex, interactive, content managed, and database driven websites
This UI/UX focused front-end engineer will work closely with the Development team in a full stack role across frontend and the backend supporting it
Ultimately, the person in this role will be responsible for translating our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications and ensuring great user experience
Build beautiful content using JavaScript / HTML5 / Tailwind CSS
Work on backend system design and troubleshoot
Support production flows
Responsible for coding and resolving technical issues with web pages, funnels and branded sites
Perform code reviews, as needed
Teach developers new frameworks and languages to support front end applications
Collaborate with various departments on optimization efforts to drive more revenue
Be part of an on-call schedule for issues out of work hours
Optimize applications for maximum speed
Move fast in a high-paced environment, keep an eye on the fine details, keep what you build running at scale
Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
Write functional requirement documents and guides
Create quality mockups and prototypes
Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
Rest API design
Company information
At GiddyUp, we help Brands and Marketing Partners generate scalable, long-term revenue through performance-based partnerships and cutting-edge technology.
Company Specialties: Performance Marketing, Customer Acquisition, Growth Hacking, Customer Lifetime Value, Sales Funnel Development and Optimization, and Online Paid Media