Senior Web Developer

Voices is the world’s #1 creative services marketplace.

We’ve helped tens of thousands of marketers, producers, instructors, and creative directors at the world’s biggest and most beloved brands find the right talent for their creative projects.

Headquartered in London, Canada, Voices matches clients with voice over, music, audio production, and translation professionals in over 160 countries.

We are looking for a Senior Web Developer to take a team leadership role in our web development group to help improve and extend our product. They should be someone who collaborates effectively with developers, designers, and product managers. We’re seeking an experienced full-stack developer with a proven track record who can design robust technical solutions, develop end-to-end applications, communicate their ideas clearly, and help others to achieve excellence.

If this resonates with you, let’s connect!

About the position:

• This is a permanent, full-time position in a hybrid work environment. While you’ll primarily work remotely, some in-office time may occasionally be required.
• We’re looking for developers with several years of hands-on experience, ideally including leadership roles on web development projects. A diverse background is highly valued.
• You will help design technical solutions for business problems presented by our Product and Marketing Teams.
• You’ll be involved in all aspects of the Voices web application, including UI design, backend controls, APIs, application logic, and special architecture projects. Our primary languages are PHP and vanilla JavaScript, with occasional use of Node.js. Familiarity with modern PHP and JavaScript frameworks is a plus.
• You should be able to plan and lead team sprints and projects through estimation and cooperative research.
• You will have the opportunity to develop new features and find ways to improve the product. Sometimes these features will span multiple teams for an all-hands approach.
• You will also handle internal support conversations, investigate trouble tickets, and contribute to occasional infrastructure projects.
• You should also be comfortable with helping expand the knowledge of your colleagues and help them develop highly functional, efficient, and readable code.

Typical tasks in the life of a Sr. Developer at Voices:

• Guiding technical solution planning for sprints and small projects.
• Designing work packages for your team that match up business and technical requirements.
• Creating task tickets (Jira) to reliably deliver quality products.
• Ensuring that your team meets compliance rules for security and accessibility.
• Building customer-facing and internal user interfaces with CSS from LESS/SASS, HTML & JS.
• Creating and extending an MVC application using PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter, Laravel) and occasional scripts. Other technologies such as WordPress also play a role.
• Applying your knowledge of accessibility standards (AODA, WCAG) and site security (OWASP) to improve life for our users.
• Testing your work for performance and bottleneck improvements.
• Building or extending our internal APIs and 3rd-party integrations (Salesforce, S3, SQS, and other AWS services).
• Working with multiple Git branches, writing and reviewing Pull Requests (BitBucket), and pushing production-level code regularly and on a schedule.
• Oversee the preparation of the test and release plan for your work by creating DB migration scripts and collaborating with the testing team.
• Helping to maintain our internal component library & design system, and contribute to build scripts (Gulp, Webpack, Babel).
• Building new product pages and functionality for our website and documenting projects (Confluence).
• Writing and updating technical documentation and requirements.
• Reviewing and triaging support conversations. Fixing bugs and following up with our Product and Support teams.
• Collaborating via Slack, Figma, and regular video or in-person chats.

About you:

• You want to ship regularly. Your passion is to build end-to-end software. You always want to improve and learn.
• You understand the importance of quality code. Your code is documented, understandable and predictable. Tests are written with confidence.
• You’re comfortable with a varied stack. You have production-level experience with JavaScript, PHP, React, build & migration scripts, and even asynchronous queues.
• You have production-level experience with WordPress development (or other similar CMS).
• You can explain your thinking. You are able to communicate your ideas or issues well.
• Your goal is to build for everyone. You are skilled in developing front-ends from scratch to create valid, reusable, performant, and accessible pages at all screen sizes.
• You are self-motivated and can work independently. You take the initiative to make sure that you have everything you need and will call for support when required.
• You love learning. You thrive on solving problems, learning new tricks, bridging the gaps between new and old, and want to keep getting even better.
• You love sharing. Helping your team based on your experience is time well spent.
• You have 3+ years experience in database-driven web site development.
• You have been able to lead a team to a positive, shared goal.
• You earned a BS or MS in Computer Science, Diploma in Web Development or have the equivalent work experience.

You will work with:

• Development Manager
• Technical Project Managers
• Product Managers
• Product Designers
• UX Researchers
• Product & Marketing Developers
• Infrastructure Developers
• Analytics & Data Science Team
• Quality Assurance Team

Equal Employment Opportunities

Voices.com values diversity. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.

Accommodation

Voices.com is committed to providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities; please let us know if you require an accommodation during the recruitment process.

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