WordPress – Front-End Developer
Job description:
BASK Digital Media is looking for a self-motivated, task-oriented, and creative Front-End Developer to join our Design & Development team. You’ll work closely with our Lead Programmer and collaborate across Creative and Account teams in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment; building pixel-perfect, high-performing websites and maintaining existing properties that don’t just look good, but win. Our work moves fast because the issues matter, and we need someone who thrives under pressure and delivers without compromise.
BASK is the team power players call when the stakes are high and failure isn’t an option. Our clients don’t come to us for fluff. They come to win.
Based in San Diego, we’re a full-service digital powerhouse of 25 experts, including strategists, media planners, ad ops pros, designers, video producers, and developers, all working side by side. We deploy cutting-edge digital outreach and advocacy strategies, persuade voters through precision-targeted advertising, influence policymakers, build action-driven websites, and craft attention-grabbing creative that moves people to act.
We fly under the radar, but our impact is impossible to miss. If you’re ready to move fast, build things that matter, and work on some of the most consequential issues in the country, let’s go.
The Ideal Candidate
This role is for someone with an exceptional attention to detail and a high bar for quality. You’re highly organized, solution-oriented, and proud of the work you put into the world. You’re naturally curious and constantly learning new tools, techniques, and best practices without needing hand-holding. You have a strong eye for design and can translate ideas into clean, creative, and tasteful web experiences, even without a full design mock in hand. Clear, concise communication is second nature to you. You anticipate next steps, flag issues early, and move projects forward without waiting to be asked. You balance speed and efficiency with precision, never sacrificing quality for convenience.
Responsibilities:
- Building new websites, microsites and web pages in WordPress
- Maintaining and updating current sites and pages in WordPress
- Integrating data from various backend services and databases
- Building static HTML landing pages from scratch or custom frameworks
- Build and test HTML marketing emails
- Collaborating with graphic designers and account team to discuss goals for client websites
- Test usability across all screens and make appropriate fixes and enhancements
- Perform quality assurance tests and peer reviews on one’s own work and others work
- Stay up to date on new industry trends and emerging technologies and apply those to company projects
- Integrate SEO best practices into all web pages
Required Capabilities
- 3-4 years of experience using HTML(5), CSS(3), and other front-end development technologies
- Knowledge of web design principles and user-interface design trends
- Strong eye for design and attention to detail with typography, colors, and layout
- Basic understandings of custom WordPress theme development
- Basic understanding of Javascript
- Basic understanding of PHP
- Knowledge of SEO principles
- Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
- Familiarity leveraging front-end frameworks such as Bootstrap or Tailwind
- Experience testing user flow and functionality across all platforms and devices
- Experience working with Photoshop and XD
Bonus Capabilities
- Experience with VueJS, React, Svelte, Nuxt, Next or any other modern Javascript frameworks
- Experience utilizing version control software (GIT)
- Experience with Node.js (or other backend languages)
- CSS animation experience
- Experience working with SVG files
- Gravity forms experience / extensions & data connection
- ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) Experience
- Data connection platforms / applications / APIs
- Experience building AI tools (ML, OpenAI API, etc.)
BASK Employee Benefits
Our people are what set us apart and are the reason that it all works. We are united in our relentless drive to be better than yesterday and never settle for second-best. We cultivate a culture of teamwork through positive attitudes and hard work with a sprinkle of friendly competition.
We are proud to offer our employees:
- Hybrid WFH/in-office work schedule. Many of the work days are remote with up to 3 designated days per week in-office. Our office is at 225 Broadway in San Diego, in the heart of San Diego’s Gaslamp District.
- Competitive salary and performance bonuses
- 27 days of PTO (10 flexible + 17 national holidays) for employees with less than 5-years of tenure and increases as your time at the company grows
- Company-paid premium: medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401K with company match opportunity
- Paid parental leave policy including 13 weeks 100% paid leave, supplemented with CA state provided benefits, for the birthing parent as well as other benefits for the partner
- Modern, updated office including healthy (and unhealthy) snacks, drinks, and a well-stocked bar cart
- High-performance work equipment including Apple laptops, monitors, and accessories
- Quarterly staff outings including Padres games and off-site holiday retreats (last year was an overnight in Catalina)
- Strong focus on fostering professional growth and setting up each individual for success through hands-on training and mentorship from senior-level executives
- Opportunity to act with an entrepreneurial mindset and be a part of driving BASK forward
Compensation: $90K-$110K Full-Time
Interested candidates should send a cover letter, portfolio and a resume to jobs@baskdigital.com. All are required to be considered.
The interview process includes 3 steps:
1) An interview with company leadership
2) A creative development assessment. You will have 3 hours to complete the assessment.
3) A final interview with future teammates.
