Web Developer

Founded in 1985, SelectQuote provides solutions that help consumers protect their most valuable assets: their families, health and property. The company pioneered the model of providing unbiased comparisons from multiple, highly rated insurance companies allowing consumers to choose the policy and terms that best meet their unique needs. Two foundational pillars underpin SelectQuote's success: a strong force of highly trained and skilled agents, who provide consultative needs analysis for every consumer, and proprietary technology that sources and routes high-quality leads. The company has three core business lines: SelectQuote Senior, SelectQuote Life and SelectQuote Auto and Home. SelectQuote Senior, the largest and fastest-growing business, serves the needs of a demographic that sees 10,000 people turn 65 each day with a range of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans.

Job Summary:

The Web Developer III is responsible for designing, developing and implementing software solutions to address complex business issues, and providing technical leadership within the IT department. The applicant must be able to thrive in a highly collaborative workplace and actively engage in the development process.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Leads objectives within a team of Web Developers leveraging WordPress and Node.js technologies
• Designs and implements new features and functionality
• Establishes and guides the website's architecture
• Ensures high-performance and availability, and manages all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helps formulate an effective, responsive design and turns it into a working theme and plugin
• Ensures that all external websites are running and functioning

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Strong creative ability
• Detail oriented
• Ability to effectively communicate
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Logical approach to work

Education and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in developing and managing WordPress instances
• Experience using Elegant Theme's theme builder
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and React
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
• Experience with Next.js required
• Experience with Contentful required
• Experience with Node.js and its ecosystem, e.g. npm, webpack, gatsby
• Experience with AWS technologies, including Lambda/Serverless, CloudFront, and S3
• Experience managing integrations using Zapier
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Experience analyzing/troubleshooting website performance issues
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Compensation & Benefits

The Compensation for this position is listed below. Local minimum wage laws apply. This information is posted pursuant to local requirements to provide applicants with information about what they might be eligible to receive. Individual pay decisions will depend on job-related factors such as experience, education, skill, performance, and geographic location where work will be performed.

Successful candidates may be able to participate in one or more incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans, which could generate additional earnings in accordance with the terms of each plan.

Full-time SelectQuote employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, voluntary short-term disability, company-paid long term disability, company-paid life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), 401(k) + company match and 100% vesting after 4 years, discretionary profit sharing, employee stock purchase program (espp), paid time off, floating holidays, paid maternity leave, paid parental bonding leave, tuition reimbursement, jury duty pay, and other paid leaves vary based on work location.

Base Salary Minimum

$78000

Base Salary Maximum

$92760

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