Front-End Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Inquiri partners with early stage and growth stage businesses to plan, produce, and measure demand-driven sales, marketing, and product strategies. 

We help create, nurture, and manage buyer interest through: 

  • Business and market-development strategy
  • Campaign and lead management
  • Marketing delivery and analysis
  • Demand-driven product strategy

Founded in 2014, Inquiri is rapidly establishing itself as the best early stage design and product consulting firm in Pittsburgh. We currently comprise of five team members and look forward to adding the very best creative, versatile, and energetic talent in the market.

Job Description

We have a front-end development component to just about every project we work on. As the house’s front-end dev, you will take lead on all of them. You could spend one day on a WordPress site, the next on a flight of emails, and the third working on product with our software developer. That means you need to feel comfortable managing your own schedule, juggling competing priorities, and managing client expectations.

We’re a small team, which means that everyone does a little bit of everything. We like it that way, and hope you will, too. That does mean, however, that you cannot stay heads down in code all the time. We will look to you for input on product, UI/UX, and language, and we’ll expect you to have a voice in client meetings, as well.

We love new stuff—tech and otherwise—and it's part of our job as a digital agency to stay abreast of the bleeding edge. However, it’s also part of our job to make responsible technical recommendations for our clients. As our front-end developer, we will trust you to understand the difference between what’s newest, and what’s best for the situation.

Qualifications

Know these like the back of your hand:

  • The underlying principles of RWD, and how best to implement them
  • How—and why—to use HTML5 and CSS3
  • Sass, SCSS, and/or Less
  • The basics of WordPress theme development
  • jQuery (and yes, vanilla javascript, too.)

Be able to hold a conversation about:

  • Your current workflow and the people/blogs/podcasts etc. that you look to for inspiration.
  • On-page SEO, structured data, the Open Graph protocol, and other techniques to ensure your work gets found.
  • The basics of MVC architecture.
  • The Adobe Creative Suite—especially Illustrator.

It would be great if you also had:

  • Experience negotiating with Google Pagespeed, YSlow, and other performance auditing tools.
  • Experience working with MVC frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Laravel.
  • Experience working with javascript frameworks like Angular or Ember
  • Experience working with Bootstrap/Foundation—and the insight to know when they aren’t the best tool for the job.
  • Experience building email templates that performed consistently across clients.

Additional Information

EOE AA M/W/Disabled/Veterans