JavaScript Job: Front-End Developer (HTML - CSS - WordPress - JS)

About Visca Web

Visca Web operates performance marketing websites within the sports, real estate and finance segments across several markets, primarily in the Americas and Europe.

For more than 10 years now, our content has been educating and empowering our users across the globe to make well-informed decisions, which has resulted in generating over 100,000 high-quality online leads for our partners brands over that period of time.

One key element of this success has been our small (20+ full-time members), resourceful and truly multicultural team, which is organized around Content, SEO, tech development, product management and data analytics. Friendly startup feeling, with structures and processes in place to continue growing.

This successful track-record, culture and set up makes us proud and confident to take on any challenge, whether it is to maintain and consolidate our position amongst the top players of our industry or to venture into new segments and territories looking for further growth opportunities.

Your Role:

We are looking for a Front-End Developer who can deliver quality software using the best practices with a mobile-first mentality. Given that the HTML integration is made available through WordPress, we need our candidates to have some degree of PHP experience.

You will work both on existing projects and on building new projects from scratch. We value self-management, ownership and speed of delivery, you will join a cross-functional team and work hand in hand with a Visual & UI Designer, Product Manager and other developers.

The current objectives of our front-end team are to harmonize our existing websites (design/code base) and to make them easier to access (faster in terms of loading, lighter in terms of code, etc…). We are focused on integrating across many websites while keeping consistency, speed and respecting the SEO constraints. While we always look at the newest front-end technologies to see if they can be suited with our needs, we prone a pragmatic approach and business requirements guide our decisions in that respect.

Our team collaborates with Github, Asana, Slack and Figma.

Required skills/experience/mindset

• Extensive experience in markup and integration of designs into websites (writing HTML, CSS and Javascript).
• Strong knowledge of WordPress eco-system.
• Experience working with PHP and with WordPress themes / plugins.
• Strong focus on integration performance (resources, speed, sizes, etc…).
  
• Awareness of UX and usability principles and progressive enhancement.
• Team player with a positive mindset, willing to find reliable solutions that fit the projects’ needs and their constraints.
• The ability to communicate in English.
  
• (Bonus) Experience with Node.js, npm, ES6, etc.
  
• (Bonus) Experience with testing (BrowserStack, GhostInspector).
  
• (Bonus) Experience working with modern stacks (Gulp, Babel, Webpack, etc.).

BENEFITS

On top of the competitive salary package and annual bonus plan, the benefits we offers are the following:

Great environment

• Cool and bright office in the 22@ district of Poblenou.
• Bike storage, rest room, Playstation room.

Annual holiday

• 23 days per year
• All bank holidays from Spain, Catalunya and Barcelona

Flexibility

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid office/remote work

Self-development and growth

• Personal training/conference budget (1000€ annually)

Health, fitness and well-being

• Private health insurance plan.
• Andjoy (fitness) Membership.
• On-site massages every month.

Social

• Summer & Christmas offsite gatherings
• ...and a few more (good) surprises along the year.

This position is a full-time one, based in our Barcelona office. Possession of a valid work-permit for Spain is a must.