Lead Web Developer Job Description
Lead web developer
provides high-quality development and support of digital systems and mobile apps using the available infrastructure (PHP, Drupal, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS) and provide technical leadership on site for several business projects).
Lead Web Developer Duties & Responsibilities
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Works with Frontend Developers to codes web pages utilizing XHTML and CSS and other computer coding languages, following industry standards
Use expertise of JavaScript and front end frameworks to collaborate with developers, business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems
Assists in the development of web publishing systems, applications, and micro-sites across NBA.com, NBA team sites, and NBA.com mobile
Mentors junior web developers on technical issues and modern web development best-practices and solutions
Assists web developers in template development, testing, debugging, integration, and deployment in accordance with industry best practices and specific internal procedures and standards
Contributes to task identification and work effort estimates for development and maintenance activities
Participates in the analysis, definition, and scoping of new projects
Consistently meet or exceed project deadlines
Provides 2nd tier on-call support as needed
Collaborates with business partners, other Information Technology (IT) teams and senior application developers to arrive at recommendations for technology decisions
Lead Web Developer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Lead Web Developer
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Education for Lead Web Developer
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Employers hiring for the lead web developer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Technical, Business, Math, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Computer, Computer Programming
Skills for Lead Web Developer
Desired skills for lead web developer include:
JavaScript
PHP
CSS
Banking and payment backbone IT transaction systems
FIDO and understanding of cryptography security protocols
HTML
OAuth 2.0
OIDC
Online/digital ID management and authorization systems
SAML
Desired experience for lead web developer includes:
Minimum 4 years in basic systems analysis techniques, testing, debugging, documentation standards, storage and interfacing
2+ years in the role of a team leader
Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Experience Agile/Scrum
A drive to keep up with the latest technology both at work and at home
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
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Lead Web Developer Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead web developer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead web developer
- Overview security vulnerabilities of the application and define strategies to overcome them
- Integrate Continuous Delivery best practices into the development workflow
- Serve as supervisor and career counselor for a group of developers (1 to 4 team members)
- Contribute to group wide best practices in coding, continuous integration
- Work with product owners to deliver desired applications, features, and capabilities along with required testing scenarios
- Lead a team to write and deliver code that is modular, highly scalable, and robust to achieve better quality, satisfy stakeholders and delight customers
- Continuously improve software engineering practices, educate the broader organization of best practices
- Conduct Design and code reviews to ensure code adheres to development standards
- Coach and mentor junior developers as needed to build code to adhere to standards
- Collaborate with other tech teams and product owners for delivering optimal technology solutions
Qualifications for lead web developer
- Help with the development of our marketing websites
- Coding ~90% of the time
- Helping define coding standards and best practices ~10% of the time
- Ensure the quality of the product produced by the teams through code reviews, unit and functional test coverage
- Be able to write elegant, readable, and well-documented code
- Ensure that other developers are following to best practices
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a lead web developer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lead web developer
- Work closely with the Technical Architect and Business Analyst to determine and implement appropriate design and code changes, and make relevant recommendations to the team
- Upgrading and testing of the application environment to take advantage of new vendor software releases
- Work on any other duties as assigned from time to time including but not limited to attending training, providing training to others and serving as a subject matter expert
- Works as project team lead to develop and implement web projects for Turner's entertainment brands and associated websites
- Define and implement application level architecture design
- Maintain documentation for each application and coordinate updates of application documentation for each release
- Create Training Material/Provide one-on-one or regularly scheduled training
- Designing, implementing, delivering, and maintaining applications and features for members, customer support, and administrators
- Working closely with Product Designers, Product Managers and Quality Engineers to turn requirements and design documents into elegant code and delightful user experience
- Using modern tooling for rapid development, integrated automated testing, and high performance
Qualifications for lead web developer
- Work with the team lead in deeply understanding the business ecosystem, identifying problems and devising solutions
- A need to have a very high care factor for the work you do
- At least 3 years experience in JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS, BackBoneJS, KnockoutJS, Dojo, Sencha Touch, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and NodeJS
- Responsible for supporting Global markets business
- Participate in rotational production support activities
- Proficiency in writing functions around event based JavaScript
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead web developer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lead web developer
- Promote engineering best practices (test-driven development, pairing, refactoring, continuous integration)
- Coach, mentor and develop your team of engineers
- Challenge us internally and help us to improve in multiple areas, code quality, CI/CD, architecture, product vision, and UX
- Front-end Coding
- Work closely with Product Designers, Product Managers and Quality Engineers to turn requirements and design documents into elegant code and delightful user experience
- Use modern tooling for rapid development, integrated automated testing, and high performance
- Mentor Junior Engineers and contribute to architecture decisions
- Conduct insightful code reviews
- Develop critical components that make up products using the latest web technologies
- Performing under minimal supervision on significantly complex assignments
Qualifications for lead web developer
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS or technical area or equivalent training or industry experience
- Expert with jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, and AJAX
- Experience in the web, financial services, or marketing industries is preferred
- Expertise launching successful projects to large-scale, high-volume websites is required
- Thorough understanding of the web and web browsers, their capabilities and their limitations
- Experience in Unix command line required
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of lead web developer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for lead web developer
- Mentor Junior Engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and conduct insightful code reviews
- Lead a small team of developers in the design and develop a web front-end for a legacy application
- Actively participate in daily Scrums and other Agile ceremonies
- Deliver formal and informal presentations to colleagues, customers, and stakeholders
- Perform software engineering tasks within the process framework established for the ongoing development of applications and products
- Collaborate with the product team, application domain experts (e.g., application engineers, technical marketing) and frequently with customers, to establish achievable requirements
- Collaborate with the product team to identify/clarify project goals, establish useful milestones, and develop a breakdown of the engineering tasks to be performed
- Create software designs, and implements and tests those designs to meet established requirements
- Participate in technical/design reviews as required by the application framework
- Understand and provide solutions for cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility issues
Qualifications for lead web developer
- Development experience with Oracle, native iOS and or Android development App, Object Oriented Design, Automation, Unix shell scripting
- Minimum of 5 years of hands on .net web development and configuration experience
- Experience leading small- to medium-sized teams through the development cycle
- Demonstrate the ability to keep up with the latest Microsoft developments
- Familiar and comfortable with agile methodology
- Working knowledge of Angular, ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS is a plus
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Our company is hiring for a lead web developer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead web developer
- Coordinates deep troubleshooting and issue analysis, coding, testing and implementing software enhancements and/or applying patches
- Responsible for quality assurance review and metrics reporting, and serves as a business and practical expert for technical and business processes
- Additional formal and informal assignments within their area of expertise
- Owns areas of the application portfolio as the technical knowledge expert and “go-to” resource
- Presents status and organizes work for the team
- Reviews and merges code, ensuring expected standards for production release
- Construct, comment, unit test, and end-to-end test user interface programs, modules and components of high complexity
- Work with and develop client programs, classes and sub-systems of high complexity
- Perform system integration activities of high complexity
- Work with Business Analysts to ensure that technical design and programs satisfy business needs
Qualifications for lead web developer
- ECMAScript spe
- Highly beneficial to have working experience of
- Work with Business Analysts to understand and scope product requirements & vision
- Expert in modern web technology stack, with special focus on AngularJS 1.x/2.x, NodeJS, Gulp, ES6, HTML5/CSS
- Thorough knowledge and experience with modern and responsive website best practices
- Ability to mentor other development team members on UX best practices and techniques, including JavaScript’s many eccentricities