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Web developer

Published: June 18. 2013 4:00AM PST

Creative, articulate and well-organized ace programmer needed for fast-paced publishing environment. Must be a star technologically who can communicate effectively with non-technical executives, designers, journalists, salespeople and customers.

This full-time position is located at corporate headquarters in the beautiful resort town of Bend, OR, home of world-class mountain-biking, fly-fishing, rock-climbing and snowboarding. Position includes full benefits and competitive wages. You couldn't ask for a better lifestyle!

To apply, e-mail cover letter, resume, URLs, code samples, code repository (GitHub or other) and references to resume@wescompapers.com.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Build new web sites, applications and functionality, including interfaces to 3rd party applications

- Contribute to development of web strategies

- Help manage company’s numerous digital initiatives, web and mobile

- Develop automation techniques and recommend new technology to improve efficiency of our digital operations

- Design, implement and maintain interfaces between automated processes and applications

- Provide timely technical support to employees and customers as needed

- Create web-specific multimedia advertising and/or news content

- Conduct appropriate testing and bug-fixing as needed

- Create and maintain technical, operational and user documentation

- Analyze utilization reports and resource requirements

EDUCATION REQUIRED

Bachelor’s degree

SKILLS REQUIRED

- Ability to communicate effectively technical concepts to non-technical personnel

- Ability to write software to parse XML

- Ability to work with existing code as well as write new software

- Expert understanding of web browsers & cross-browser requirements

- Expert understanding of principles of usability and user interface design

- Expert understanding of databases and operating systems

- Expert understanding of character set issues and theUTf8 standard

- Expert understanding of PHP, SQL, Javascript, Python, DOM scripting or comparable

- Expert understanding of HTML5 and XML

- Familiarity with open-source content management systems

- Basic knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite applications

- Deadline orientation

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