Senior Web Developer Job Description
As a member of the Developer Portal team, you will own the dev portal – the most important channel that creators use to discover, learn, and use Teradata Vantage.
The portal covers code samples, documentation, downloads, and the ability to try APIs (Application Programming Interface) from the website. It is built on Drupal, hosted on a powerful PaaS (Platform as a Service) platform.
We are a cross-functional and empowered team with business outcomes as our goals.
Functions
We embrace lean, deploy early and often, care about technical debt. We automate with CI/CD, run experiments, and make product decisions based on data.
Key responsibilities
- Help define good developer/builder experience to support the mission · Build and maintain the dev portal code and guide junior engineers on the team · Work with the UX team, product management and other platform engineering teams to help create and evaluate new product ideas and technical design · Implement best practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, testing, and code review. · Participate in detailed reviews of design, architecture, and code produced by other engineers within the team · Automate builds, deploys, monitoring, alerting to keep the website up and limit operational burden on the team · Collaborate with other cross-platform team members to build effective integrations
Qualifications
Required:
- 5+ years professional experience in User Interface development
- Experience with technical leading and/or technical mentorship
- PHP · Drupal (Drupal 9 experience is preferred) · SQL
- Translating user experience design (mockups, wireframes, and user journeys) into code
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript, HTML, SASS, CSS3
- Experience with running CI/CD pipelines
- Good understanding of web standards & technologies (ex. HTTP, REST and JSON), Git
- Knowledge of advanced JavaScript and browser optimizations
Desired:
- Test automation tools and frameworks
- Knowledge of Single Sign On protocols like SAML
- Experience with building, documenting, consuming API
Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.