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Front-end Web Developer
Springer
New York, NY, United States
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Springer Nature is a major new force in scientific, scholarly, professional and educational publishing. By using its combined expertise, scale and the reach of our brands, the company aims to grow and innovate in order to better serve academic researchers, students, teachers, institutions, professionals and the wider public, by helping them discover more. Springer Nature was created through the combination of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media in May 2015. This strategic merger brought together these dynamic publishing houses with more than 150 years of history behind them, as well as complementary geographic footprints and brand portfolios, a track record of creativity and innovation, and a shared vision to advance knowledge and learning around the world. The company numbers almost 13,000 staff in over 50 countries and has a turnover of EURO 1.5 billion.
Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Front-End Web Developer to build, maintain, and expand digital products for Scientific American.
This role reports into the Technical Lead and is responsible for front-end concerns, focusing on design-related changes and client-side functionality, implementing best practices from a content rendering and delivery perspective.
The ideal candidate will have experience in coding large-scale, responsive web sites with an aim towards performance and progressive enhancement. We value accessibility, graded browser support, maintainability, open source, and beautiful readmes.
Job Responsibilities:
Responsibilities will include working across the product and development teams to deliver clean and tested markup, styling, and functionality. The Front-End Developer will work with the Product Managers and UI/UX designers to bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.
• Produce valid and accessible CSS and HTML templates using Sass and DustJS
• Develop user functionality with vanilla Javascript and jQuery
• Optimize existing templates
• Help the team define and adhere to standard best practices
• Turn project mock-ups and designs into functioning templates
• Work with Product and Project Managers to define project timelines and deliverables
• Maintain site updates, fixing and troubleshooting front-end bugs, and improving performance
• Participate in code reviews
• Manage analytics tagging and additional 3rd party scripting libraries such as Krux, Google DFP, Ensighten, Optimizely, etc.
• Additional duties as needed
Experience, education, skills and qualifications required:
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Proficient understanding of client-and-server-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks
• Proficient understanding of HTML and CSS
• Proficient knowledge of responsive web-design and cross-browser compatibility issues
• Proficient knowledge of code versioning tools, such as Git or Mercurial
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Good understanding of the principals of progressive enhancement
• Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and Sass
• Knowledge of image authoring tools
• Experience with Dust JS and Mura CMS is a huge plus
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Life and AD&D
• 401(k)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit Accounts
• Tuition Assistance
• Summer Hours
Visit our website at www.springernature.com.
Springer Nature is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following EEO Is The Law Poster:
http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.