Senior Web Developer

Job Description

As a Sr. Web Developer, you will work directly with our marketing and design teams to build a world-class web experience. Our marketing site is the primary way our prospective customers learn about our company, products, use cases, and ultimately begin their journey as a LaunchDarkly customer. For our website to be successful, we need your help to establish a development process that allows us to quickly iterate on our website with new content, images, and user flows. LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster.

Responsibilities:

• Own Blog and Marketing Websites end-to-end
• Refine and optimize our JAMstack (React/Gatsby) to ensure consistent and reliable web experience
• Manage our CMS (Prismic) to a create a scalable and easy to use user environment
• Collaborate with marketing and design teams to build new pages when needed
• Establish a repeatable development process that allows us to iterate quickly
• Ensure that our website is fast and optimized for search engines
• Continually improve standard web metrics and SEO (ie, page download speed, etc.)
• Make data-driven decisions using web analytic tools like GA
• Be the point person interacting our DevOps and Engineering teams
• Develop the processes and protocols to make sure we’re one step ahead of problems

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience in our frontend stack, JAMstack/react/Gatsby and with expertise in frontend performance, testing, usability issues, and modern CSS in React
• Experience supporting a Marketing team with a focus on making their lives easier
• Experience in planning and delivering software platforms used across multiple products and organizational units
• Experience with modern frontend technologies, including CSS pre/post-processors, build systems, module loaders, and dependency management
• Ability to balance speed and what’s best long term
• Ability to write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
• High bar for quality of code and quality of user experience
• Must have a strong understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions and standards.

About LaunchDarkly: LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 6 trillion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark launching"). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. We are building a diverse team so that we can offer robust products and services. Our team culture is dynamic, friendly, and supportive. Our headquarters are in Oakland. At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Apply for this job