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