The Opportunity

Utopian Designs is looking for an experienced Full Stack Developer to join our team.

You will be responsible for crafting robust, beautiful, usable interfaces for our client’s projects. You will play an integral role in connecting and collaborating with strategy, design, and backend to create a cohesive and organized final experience. You thrive working in a collaborative and engaging environment and love being part of teams and systems that actively seek your experience in helping them grow and improve.

You will use your deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP/WordPress to solve both simple and complex challenges, both in and outside of the WordPress platform. When paired with your understanding of best practices in accessibility, performance, and architecture, you ultimately produce code and experiences that are scalable and delightful.

We are currently looking for freelance contractors or full-time employees to work 40 hours a week for this gig.

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity to you, read on:

Responsibilities

Collaborate with your team to deeply understand the needs of our users and clients and then plan, and build features that best serve those needs
Be an impactful contributor to your team, discipline, and company, participating in our culture and helping us improve and push our internal tools, libraries, workflows, and standards forward
Actively participate in team scrum meetings
Deliver maintainable, efficient, and high-quality code
Build and maintain scalable code
Build features that are performant, accessible, and steeped in the best practices of modern frontend development standards and patterns
Participate in keeping our internal tooling and systems current
Ensure that the quality of our design implementation and user experience is the very best it can be 
Share knowledge and collaborate with fellow developers across the company
Code review the work of other developers

Utopian Designs is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, disability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. As a hybrid workspace ranging from distributed contractors to traditional employees, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of our team.

Personal Competencies

• Strong communication skills
• Experience working as part of a remote team
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• A methodical approach to all tasks
• Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
• B1 or higher English speaker

Knowledge & Experience

• Exceptional HTML & CSS (including experience with Sass or PostCSS and BEM) skills
• Mid to advanced level vanilla JavaScript experience (including experience with webpack, babel, and ES2015+ syntax)
• Experience working with design systems and design system thinking
• Mid to advanced level experience developing WordPress powered sites
• Extensive knowledge of modern frontend development standards
• You have experience working in a remote, fast-paced, and highly collaborative environment with peers from different backgrounds and skillsets.
• You pay attention to and are passionate about the details.
• You take pride in and value team success.
• You are thoughtful and motivated when it comes to approaching your work. This includes being comfortable with proactively driving feature requirements whether that be identifying gaps and asking questions or helping flesh out additional details.

Bonus Points

• Contributions to the open-source community
• Experience building sites that are accessible (you’ve worked with WAI-ARIA and done WCAG 2.0+ AA/Section 508 work) and performant (working knowledge of best practices)
• Experience with React, Vue, or React Native and Web and/or Native App engineering
• Full-stack experience beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Background working on large scale WordPress projects

Location

Work from anywhere and join our distributed team working across the globe. You should be fluent in English and just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with our team.

Perks

We believe that distributed working is a way of life. We understand what it means to work remotely. We offer consistency in expectations, payment, and support. We believe in learning from each other and fostering personal growth. You can expect to learn a lot while working with us.

Who We Are

Utopian Designs. is a rapidly growing web design & development company. We develop custom solutions for clients all over the world. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project.

Who You Are

We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:

HAPPY

Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.

HELPFUL

Always looking for ways that you can help others.

CURIOUS

It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.

ACCOUNTABLE

Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.

A FREELANCER

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