Senior Web Developer Job Description
Senior web developer
provides experience in web development technologies such as HTML(5), CSS(3), HTTP(S), Ajax, WebSockets etc.
Senior Web Developer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Experience in web languages HTML5, DHTML, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery, AJAX, Linq and heavy use of XML
Active hands-on development of Web Applications (REST APIs, JavaScript & MVC frameworks, CSS, HTML, ) with a focus on reusability and consistency, and architectural oversight establishing best practices & guidelines
Developing and maintaining complex system under LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) platform
Create web applications/web services using PHP technology on Linux based environments and Apache / Tomcat web servers
Work with UX / graphic design team members to create and implement innovative and unique user experiences
Proven background in web technologies including complete definition from infrastructure to software technologies built on Microsoft technologies and .NET Framework
Experience in Microsoft .NET Technologies including ASP.NET, C# and development in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Experience in developing proprietary web applications including use of MVC, Web Services and Restful API
Experience in backend databases in particular MS SQL Server 2010, including development using SQL and Transact-SQL
Experience with NHibernate and/or object relational mapping (ORM)
Senior Web Developer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Web Developer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: IAT, II, CE, SCJP, AWS, SEC, SSL, LOMA, SQL, EE
Education for Senior Web Developer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior web developer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Education, Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Web Development, Design, Information Technology, Business
Skills for Senior Web Developer
Desired skills for senior web developer include:
JavaScript
CSS
JQuery
HTML
PHP
AJAX
MySQL
Methods
Desired experience for senior web developer includes:
Experience with REST services, service-driven development, and emerging technologies such as Web sockets
Take control on designing and building all front-end components (presentation, templates, client-side behaviour, integration to data services )
Experience with version control tools and concepts
Experience in the integration of off-the-shelf web applications, and integration with third party APIs to interface with the system
Perform quality control audits and load tests to ensure accuracy, completeness, and proper handling of data
Provide technical resolution of issues on mission critical systems and serves as primary point of contact for coordination
Senior Web Developer Examples
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Senior Web Developer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior 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 senior web developer
- Monitor, optimize and resolve incidents of LIVE operations
- Mentor and guide team of Web developers from technical standpoint
- Trains junior and intermediate resources and help team meet its development plans
- Responsible for working with the Software Engineering team to implement new feature or enhancements for release to the production environment
- Use command line tools like Grunt, Gulp, Bower, JSHint, and PHPUnit to improve code quality and efficiency
- Use metalanguages like Sass and CoffeeScript to simplify front end code
- You will have a strong allegiance to agile and test-driven development practices such as Scrum and Behaviour Driven Development
- Collaborate with internal and external development teams, to appropriately address application architecture and divisions of responsibility (client side, platform/server-side)
- Take ownership of tasks to meet project needs on time and on budget
- Prepare and deploy web content onto the eCollege LMS or other platforms using the most up-to-date best web development practices possible
Qualifications for senior web developer
- Strong understanding of both progressive enhancement and single page applications built using client side MV* frameworks such as AngularJS
- Experience with Responsive CSS Frameworks such as Bootstrap is a plus
- Experience integrating UI clients with JSON-based REST services built using server-side technologies such as Java, ASP.Net and Node.js
- Experience with client-side and end-to-end testing technology such as Karma and Protractor
- Experience using JIRA, bower, npm, GIT, Jenkins and Rundeck
- B.S in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent and 7+ years’ work experience
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Our growing company is hiring for a senior 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 senior web developer
- Develops written documentation for complex code and coding methods
- Researches and stays current on best practices in the technology industry emerging technology
- Participate in university user groups and serve on university-wide committees
- Envision, design, implement, and manage new web-based applications ongoing maintenance and enhancements of the existing applications
- Managing the connection to our database of over 200,000 wine, spirit and beer reviews to ensure information is reflected online at the correct time
- Optimizing the rules and speed of internal site search and filtering using Elastic Search
- Customizing the Wordpress admin to meet needs of editorial team
- Building custom templates based on specs provided by editorial team
- Utilizing ad server technology to render ads
- Define and execute experiments to validate assumptions behind business requirements
Qualifications for senior web developer
- MVC UI architecture
- JS Libraries and Frameworks, jQuery, Backbone, and/or Node
- Highly proficient in writing good quality object-oriented code using of the following languages JavaScript, PHP, Ruby
- Deep understanding and experience with building and developing live/vod based multi-media application and players for multiple platforms (web and mobile)
- Must be able to produce quality code and functional websites
- Experience in client-side web development crafting responsive web content & UI
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior web developer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior web developer
- Build our four digital media publications, user database, and related digital products
- Develop Athena CMS, our proprietary CMS based in Django's admin framework
- Improve our native iOS and Android apps
- Creatively plan and deliver projects on-time
- Work collaboratively as part our engineering, product management, testing, and operations teams to build extraordinary and stable software
- Be deeply responsible for end to end system quality via unit and functional tests
- Research new technologies and develop proof of concept applications
- Attend and participate in status meetings to troubleshoot existing applications and develop the best solutions for the company
- Design, develop and maintain code throughout project life cycles
- Work with other developers and end users to create solutions for the company
Qualifications for senior web developer
- Software development in language pertinent to project (PHP, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript (& jQuery)
- Experience with single page application responsive design a must
- Strong C# and SQL
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies and be able to apply these to a variety of projects as applicable
- Work with and manage 3rd Parties (“Indies”) where necessary
- 8 years of web software development experience
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Our company is looking for a senior 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 senior web developer
- Fully document all work and comply with development best practices
- Able to participate in and conduct code reviews of both team and vendor-supplied code and determine quality, identify bugs and evaluate risks
- Ensure architecture is consistent with organizational development standards and align with industry guidelines and best practices
- Help internal customers understand capabilities and translate requirements into solutions that are practical to implement, robust and scalable
- Provides high-quality code by performing appropriate testing and ensuring that the functional specification is fully implemented
- Work collaboratively as part our engineering, product management, testing, and
- Operations teams to build extraordinary and stable software
- Deeply understand what drives the business for which you are building software
- Build big, distributed, API-driven systems for tens of thousands of users
- Drive and lead software design, development standards, code reviews
Qualifications for senior web developer
- Experience with Front-End frameworks (preferably AngularJS and BackboneJS)
- Experience using Front-End testing frameworks Jasmine, Karma
- Commercial experience in building single page web applications
- Keeps up with developments in FE technology, able to turn prototypes and R&D into production quality products
- Well versed in developing in an agile development environment
- Experience debugging FE functional and performance problems
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Our company is looking for a senior web developer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior web developer
- Participate in all phases of software development life cycle including functional analysis, development of technical requirements, prototyping, coding, testing, deployment and support
- Develop high-quality and scalable application logic
- Review app and feature coding, strategically plan future website upgrades with the development team
- Work with back-end and integration developers to ensure comprehensive builds
- Translate functions, features and requirements into strong user experiences
- Stay on top of emerging technologies and industry trends and apply them to web initiatives
- Operate and leverage Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Develop new web applications, maintain applications including enhancements, and respond timely to production support needs utilizing various web technologies
- Own the technical builds and developments for numerous global websites to maintain and optimize performance
- Implement changes to company global websites
Qualifications for senior web developer
- SiteCore experience is ideal
- Strong knowledge of automated testing tools and writing (NUnit, XUnit)
- Several years’ experience of working in backend systems development and integration in heterogeneous environments
- Formal web page design education or equivalent experience and interest
- Ability work with remote team members and management
- JavaScript and leading RIA frameworks such as AngularJS, React, or Knockout