Front End Developer - Temporary

Granite City Electric Supply is the area's premiere electrical distributor serving electrical contractors as well as residential, commercial, and industrial customers for 100 years. With over30 branches covering Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut, we are the largest regional independent electrical supply company and the official distributor of electrical supplies to the Boston Red Sox.

As a Front- End Web Developer, you’ll be working with the latest .Net technologies in the Electrical Industry. You’ll be involved in the building out of new applications for our in-house brands and client websites. You’ll have the latitude to work independently and add value creatively as you research and discover innovative ways to solve technical problems to meet increasingly complex industry and internal system challenges.

The Granite City marketing team is based out of our Brockton, MA branch but this position may has remote flexibility. Compensation commensurate with experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop highly intuitive and professional interfaces utilizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, and custom scripting languages.


• Contribute to specific front-end web development efforts as specified by group lead.


• Collaborate with all digital team members to refine the user experience.


• Work closely with engineers (external vendor) to improve and maintain multi-tiered web-based applications.


• Comply with process methodologies including source control, unit testing, and coding standards for HTML and CSS.


• Perform basic requirements of testing, debugging, and troubleshooting in a dynamic production environment.

Qualifications

• Experience within an e-commerce or content-driven application environment.


• Demonstrated development experience with some or all of the following: Cold Fusion, ASP.Net (code-behinds and controls), ASP Classic, PHP, JavaScript, XSL, FML, and AJAX for “rich internet applications.”


• Expertise with CSS/HTML, W3C DOM methods and properties and cross browser development.


• Proven cross-browser compatibility and browser degradation issues, as well as optimization techniques (both in file weight and perceived/actual rendering speed).


• A desire to work as a front-end lead on projects.


• Strong foundation in graphic design or strong design sensibility.


• Strong insight into user advocacy and website usability.


• Understanding of how to consume web services and use domain objects to build web front end interfaces.


• Solid understanding of SEO best practices.


• Familiarity with application development with Mobile applications a plus


• Must have good communications skills and be a strong team player.


• 3-5 years of related web development experience.

Benefits

Granite City offers competitive wages and great benefits including, medical, dental, vision, life, STD/LTD, 401k, vacation, holiday, sick and more!

We are an equal opportunity employer. Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.

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