WHO WE ARE

At Expertise, we strive to support the best providers in their efforts to serve their local communities. We stand behind every recommendation and we celebrate every happy customer. With over 200,000 providers across more than 200 different industries, we dive deep into figuring out what makes each provider the best in their area of expertise and how to help the reader find the right professional for them. We’re a small and mighty team based in Los Angeles (Encino), CA, and are venture-backed. Since 2016 we have built a website that services over 12 million annual visitors and connects them with thousands of local professionals.

WHO YOU ARE

Our ideal candidate is driven, detail-oriented, and has demonstrated the ability to manage projects through completion. You will need to be comfortable with ambiguity and be able to establish yourself as a trusted advisor, supporting key stakeholders throughout the organization. To be successful, you will need to have top-notch coding skills, clear and concise communication, and be able to drive and deliver multiple projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING DAY-TO-DAY

As the Front-end Developer, you will report directly to Expertise.com’s Lead Frontend Engineer and will be responsible for assisting in reengineering the main website. You will work cross-functionally to support content, sales, and marketing teams. You will be heavily involved in the following:

Writing code with a focus on performance, speedy page load times, improving conversion rates
Building sites and implementing redesigns, designed in Figma/Sketch
Coding features for our sites using HTML5/CSS/JS
Designing and developing better user experiences and measuring the effect on those through A/B tests
Future-proofing our sites with maintenance fixes, updating features, and rolling out responsive, mobile-friendly platforms
Conversing, committing, and delivering via ClickUp/Slack/GitHub/Gitlab/email (in whatever order that is)
Exploring new technologies/tools for finding solutions to new (and old) problems

APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE (THINGS YOU’LL HAVE TO KNOW)

Experience with static site generators like Jekyll, Gatsby, or NestJS
Semantic HTML
Sass, Bourbon, etc. (or other CSS pre-processor)
CSS Frameworks (Tailwind, Bourbon/Neat, Bootstrap, etc.)
JavaScript skills
Experience with build and package management tools like Gulp, NPM, Bower, etc
Structured Data
Advanced understanding of SEO, Web-standards, accessibility and usability concepts, information architecture, UX & UI design (heavy on the UX)
Good communication skills
A GitHub account or experience with other version control, handling issues, branching, pull requests, etc.

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