Position

We are looking to hire a Senior Front-end Developer to our team. In this role you will assist in gathering technical and user experience requirements, collaborate with design, implement, configure, and deploy small to large projects leveraging Drupal and Wordpress while collaborating with and supporting others. We'd like to see at least 5 years of application development experience

Applicants should be HTML, CSS, and web accessibility experts and be fluent in modern JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks, and front-end build tools. Candidates should have either experience or a strong interest in mentoring other front-end team members as well as a strong desire to lead Savas in the successful application of emerging technologies for our partners. Both will be crucial to success in the role.

Working at Savas Labs

At Savas Labs, we prioritize a few things. We like people who are enjoyable to work with. We learn from and teach one another, and often the result is others learn as well either via blog posts, conference presentations, or social media. We dedicate time each week for self-improvement, socializing, and collaboration. We encourage a flexible work schedule so long as we uphold our commitments to one another and our clients. We value openness and encourage our team members to push and recognize the boundaries of their expertise in a given area. We are honest, yet respectful; this is not a cut-throat environment, but rather a supportive one. We take a lot of pride in the quality of our work and we work hard. We value a work/life balance that keeps us productive and happy. We like to have fun and yet take our values seriously. We greatly embrace inclusivity. You’ll like it here.

Employment Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Profit share
• Health dental, and vision insurance covered at 100% for you and your family
• Short term and long term disability
• 401(k) plan with matching
• Flexible work schedule
• Generous PTO, sick leave and holiday schedule
• Semi-annual team retreats
• Weekly team social and/or skillshare sessions
• Conference presentation and attendance opportunities
• Annual technology and health stipend
• Annual paid community service day

About you

You have experience with:

• delivering on multiple concurrent projects
• Accessibility
• web components and semantic HTML
• Front-end performance tuning
• Front-end focused Javascript
• maintaining and evolving best practices and principals
• implementing features in a PHP CMS
• developing themes and using the Twig templating engine
• communicating directly with clients and can effectively address non-technical audiences

You care about:

• performance, scalability, and security
• writing maintainable code that adheres to best practices
• accessibility and inclusive design
• learning and expanding your skillset

Bonus points for knowledge in:

• Drupal 8
• Twig templating system
• Wrangling webpack
• React and Angular
• local development with Docker