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Sr. Web Developer

Creative Services

Hybrid | HQ in Oak Park, IL
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OUR WEB DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Shaker has changed the way that leading brands utilize technology to help acquire new candidates. Shaker’s development team creates a wide range of products for our clients – full custom career websites, custom online gated software, XML feed generation, and so much more. We partner with our greater creative team, sales team, and clients to deliver best in class solutions. Together, with the rest of our rockstar development team, you will help create websites that will help candidates find their next job!


RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Contribute in all phases of the web development lifecycle
  • Software development/maintenance - coding, documentation, system testing, etc.
  • Write well designed, testable, efficient code
  • Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for review
  • Code review other team members' code, support and teach other team members
  • Communicate with the greater creative team on best practices and design implications
  • Support a team of salespeople
  • Maintain and debug issues as they arise

FUN FACT

This job was added to our ATS, Smart Recruiter. Our developers integrate a feed of jobs from Smart Recruiter into Shaker.com and show results using Google Cloud Talent Solutions.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in custom WordPress development and best practices (Gutenberg, ACF, custom templates)
  • Deep expertise in the Bootstrap framework, HTML, PHP, SASS/LESS, GULP
  • Deep experience writing modular and object-oriented code
  • Deep expertise in PHP and knowledge of the Laravel framework
  • Knowledgeable in GA4 and setting up custom events and reports
  • Ability to write custom scripts that ingest XML/JSON data and stores it in a database and/or API
  • Experience creating XML/JSON feeds and custom APIs
  • Deep experience with APIs, Google Cloud Talent Solutions experience is a plus (or other Google APIs)
  • Experience with SSO, other types of authentications, GitHub, & MySQL Databases (Plesk server experience is a plus)
  • Deep experience with JavaScript and animation
  • Experience in Sketch and Invision
  • Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail
  • Occasional on-call availability for nights and weekends
  • A high level of technical acumen and abilities to troubleshoot technical issues to resolution
  • Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment