About EZ Texting
EZ Texting provides small and local businesses who are time and resource constrained, a platform to communicate with their customers. We have over 200,000 customers ranging from political groups to nonprofits, small businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, national companies, and marketers. We have the heart of a startup, are stable, well-funded, and growing incredibly fast!

Our office environment is highly collaborative, innovative, passionate and fun. You will grow here -- we value continuing education and professional growth. We often have a dog or two running around the office, so we hope you like animals. Also, we really like food - so we buy lunch for the office regularly, and have coffee, snacks, and drinks all over the place.
Overall Responsibility
We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. It is a critical role, supporting and maintaining the Marketing websites for multiple brands. You will be working with the Marketing team, reporting to the Creative Director. The ideal candidate will be a motivated, team-oriented, independent thinker, who is looking to grow their skills, and has a desire to take on exciting new challenges.

Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

Along with web development, you will assist with web speed optimization, search engine optimization and google tag manager maintenance.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Creative Team implementing their designs into responsive and content-rich web pages on the Drupal 8 CMS.
• Support the Marketing Team with SEO and web speed optimization requirements within Google Standards (Page Speed Insight / Lighthouse)
• Organize and maintain 3rd-party plugins/scripts via Tags/Trigger/Variable on GTM (Google Tag Manager)
• Assist with weekly marketing site releases on the Pantheon development platform.
• Manage timelines and meet project deadlines from project managers.
• Work closely with the Creative Director, Project Managers, & Senior Developers.
Skills And Qualifications:
• 3+ years of HTML5, CSS3, JS, jQuery & PHP development experience.
• Responsive web design/development knowledge (e.g. Flexbox, CSS Grid & Bootstrap 3/4).
• Experience with preprocessors and task workers (e.g. SASS and Gulp)
• Strong version control system understanding, preferably GIT.
• Experience working with and managing Drupal instances on Pantheon.
• Strong understanding of web speed optimization & SEO
• Experience with GTM (Google Tag Manager) & GA (Google Analytics)
• Competent skills in Photoshop and Illustrator and a strong attention to detail in implementing design
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, goal-driven environment
• Experienced in the Scrum Framework and practices
• Passion for quality engineering & persistent when it comes to problem-solving

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced PHP and JavaScript skill sets.
• Experience with marketing tools (e.g. Hubspot, Zendesk, VWO)

Benefits

• Fully paid medical, vision, dental and life insurance
• Stock options
• 401(k) plan
• Paid vacation
• Unlimited sick leave
• Dog friendly office
• And many more additional perks…