Web Developer

Job Description

Penguin Random House is the world's premier book publisher. Headquartered in New York with offices around the globe and in employee homes everywhere, we publish the most important and distinctive voices of our time. We care about and are committed to the well-being and continued growth of our employees, the diversity of our author list, and to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company culture and working environment.

The Reader Engagement Technology team is responsible for the technology driving penguinrandomhouse.com, readbrightly.com, D2C e-commerce across consumer sites, the PRH Reader Rewards customer loyalty program, our 20+ million subscriber email program, first-party data collection and instrumentation, and a suite of tools serving marketers and others across the company. We work collaboratively across teams and roles, we treat one another with respect, we enjoy a lot of flexibility and autonomy in our work, and we are committed to continuous learning.

Qualifications:

You will be successful in this role if you:
• Are an experienced Full Stack WordPress/PHP Developer, with around 60% frontend and 40% backend coding in PHP and JavaScript
• Care as much about building great user experiences as you do about writing beautiful code
• Have a knack for breaking big problems down into smaller ones
• Are communicative when you're stuck and helpful to others when they are
• Enjoy helping the people around you to learn and grow
• Treat others with kindness and respect
• Continuously improve your process
• Are curious about how things work and like to dig in and figure it out

Responsibilities:
• Write high quality production website code as part of a small, cross-functional, agile team
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members across roles and departments
• Implement first-party data capture and instrumentation technology to support our data operations
• Always work to reduce or eliminate technical debt
• Design and implement components, features, and bug fixes on a variety of systems
• Participate in and positively influence a collaborative, respectful, self-reflective team process
• Participate in peer code reviews (as a reviewer and reviewee)

Qualifications & Experience:

Technical skills include:
• WordPress and PHP
• JavaScript
• HTML/CSS/CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS, Stylus)
• Git
• MySQL

These additional skills would be helpful:
• React
• Vue.js
• Node.js, Nuxt, Express.js
• Automated testing
• AWS
• Docker containers

Full-time employees are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program. Our range of benefits include, but are not limited to, Medical/Prescription drug insurance, Dental, Vision, Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Pre-Tax and Roth 401(k), Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life/AD&D Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Student Loan Repayment Program, Educational Assistance & generous paid time off.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmwy1v-3-144-42-196-42 in your application.