Web Developer

Novelty Media is looking for a driven, enthusiastic and highly-ambitious Web Developer!

The ideal candidate is an experienced web development rock star and team player who enjoys coding and coming up with new ideas on a regular basis. This position will report directly to our Director, Engineering and work closely with our Product team, Data architect, fellow Developers & Engineers to create elegant yet simple solutions.
 
As our Web Developer will have the opportunity to lead and oversee a large number of projects, impacting millions of users, which reach across the entire spectrum of UX, website performance, CDN integration, proprietary plugins and widgets, dynamic content recommendations, social integrations & CMS development.

Why work for Novelty?

  • Work with motivated, fun, and smart colleagues
  • Professional growth in our fast-paced and growing start-up
  • Employer Contribution to Health benefits
  • Free gym (s) on premises
  • Great views from our office across the street from UTC Mall in La Jolla

Who are we? 

Novelty Media is a digital media publishing company with several high-end online magazines. We specialize in highly engaging, ultra-shareable content reaching over 50 million Americans.

Responsibilities

  • Support operations team with day-to-day requests related to website functionality, user experience and performance
  • Write clean, efficient, well-commented code
  • Work autonomously and be comfortable executing features from start to finish
  • Involved in all aspects of the application development lifecycle: Idea, Development, QA, Documentation, Implementation, and Integration
  • Development, maintenance, troubleshooting and enhancements of the existing Web, Video and Mobile web applications and services
  • Adhere to project schedules and effectively report progress to meet challenging deadlines
  • Write unit tests & review code prior to merging

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Web Development
  • PHP & Wordpress at a Master level - MUST
  • Attention to details, perfectionism and a pixel-perfect eye
  • Expert level knowledge of HTML/CSS (all kinds) and Javascript
  • Familiarity with modern libraries and frameworks. ie: jQuery, Bootstrap, React, AngularJS, etc.
  • Laravel experience - Nice to have
  • Expertise in developing highly scalable, performant and highly available high volume traffic websites
  • Expertise with responsive web development
  • Experience with caching techniques/technologies (Memcache, Redis, Varnish) and CDN (Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai) integrations
  • GitHub

Education
Bachelor’s Degree in  Computer Science 


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