This is a work-from-home position!
Night shift hours, Monday to Friday (9am PST - 5pm PST)
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 9 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, and 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)
- Senior JavaScript skills
- Experience with static site generators like Gatsby, or NextJS
- Semantic HTML
- Sass (or other CSS pre-processor)
- CSS Frameworks (Tailwind Bootstrap, etc.)
- Experience with build and package management tools like NPM, pnpm, etc
- Structured Data
- Advanced understanding of all the cool buzzwords… SEO, Web-standards, accessibility and usability concepts, information architecture, UX & UI design (heavy on the UX)
- Excellent communication skills, a great can-do attitude, and highly reliable
- A GitHub account or experience with other version control, handling issues, branching, pull requests, etc.
TECH STACK
- JavaScript (Vanilla, React, ES6)
- React
- Next.js
- Lit
- HTML, CSS
Top Skills
What We Do
With 1 million monthly visitors, Expertise helps people connect with local experts and helpful resources for life's most important decisions. From legal to home services to photography find the best professional in your area today.
