Junior Web Developer
Join Our Fully Remote Team as a Part-Time Junior Web Developer: Improve Your Craft with WordPress, Enjoy Flexibility & Growth with Ramblin Jackson
Are you an up-and-coming developer with a passion for figuring things out and building great WordPress websites for small businesses? Want to work with a supportive team that will help you learn and grow? Watch this short video to see if our Junior Web Developer position might be the right fit for you!
Advance Your Career, Grow Your Skills, and Increase Your Income with Ramblin Jackson’s High Performing Team
Ramblin Jackson is a 100% virtual digital agency focused on serving the snow and landscape industry (think landscape designers, snow removal companies, commercial landscapers, lawn care, tree service, and garden centers) through sales and process strategy, web design and development, local SEO, paid advertising and marketing. Following our Proven Process, we have over 100 clients throughout the United States, over 15 years of proven track record (Google us and read our reviews), and are on track to become a $10,000,000 organization as part of our 10-Year Vision.
As a Web Developer at Ramblin Jackson, you’ll be responsible for executing a foundational part of a Client’s marketing strategy through the building and maintaining of their website. Using our proven process and tech stack you’ll have the tools you need to build secure, lead generating websites that you can be proud of. Your meticulous attention to detail and resourcefulness will define your contribution to Ramblin Jackson through our commitment to our clients and to Profit & Results With Integrity.
You may be a good fit for this position if you enjoy:
- Getting in the zone of development
- Visually appealing websites and design aesthetics
- You enjoy “figuring out” new systems and technology and implementing ideas
- Processes, consistency and quality control
- Problem solving and finding solutions to development challenges
- Checking items off of a list and seeing the results of your efforts
- Helping businesses grow, so they can positively impact their families, employees and their communities
- Working with a team of experts who collaborate and support each other
Take The Next Steps In The Hiring Process:
- Apply Online in the Form at the bottom of the page
- 1 hour or less Skills Assessment
- 20-Minute Interview with Recruiting Manager
- Personality Assessment
- Final Interview with CEO
- Background Check + Employment Agreement
The Top 3 Reasons To Be A Rambler:
Grow Your Craft: With a strong focus of personal and professional development through ongoing coaching and mentorship, the Annual Ramblin Retreat in Colorado, the Book Club, and more, we live our Core Value of Craftsmanship in Life and Work, Especially on Fridays. By growing your personal and professional skillsets, you’ll gain more responsibility and grow your income.
Work-Life Balance: Keep your work … at work! Rest well at night with perks, job stability, and an accommodating family-friendly schedule. Our 100% virtual/remote empowers our team to do highly focused work from their home office. Note: we do work normal business hours. We close the office from Christmas Eve thru New Years Day each year, and have an accommodating holiday/vacation policy for our team.
Small Business, Big Results: Help Snow & Landscape Businesses Ring The Bell when you exercise creative freedom as an individual and as part of a team to implement the best digital marketing solutions for small businesses.
Advance Your Career with Ramblin Jackson: Culture, Leadership, Collaboration, & Advancement
Ramblin Jackson's Core Values
Our Mission
You won’t be anonymous at Ramblin Jackson. You’ll get to do great work, collaborate with other top performers, and make a real difference in small businesses across the US.
See interviews with our Ramblers about the collaborative, hard-working, and life-balanced culture in our video at ramblinjackson.com/careers/
Compensation
This is a part-time employee position (20 hours per week) that pays a base salary of $30,000 - $35,000 per year based on experience. With the opportunity to grow into a full-time employee with additional benefits.
Typical Workload
Our heaviest dev time is between December through the end of July, when most new projects are being built. Growth Plan Pages are very consistent month after month.
Drafting New Project Pages: approx. 10 hours per week
At any given time Ramblin Jackson has 8-20 new projects in process. This includes new websites, web copy, SEO optimization and much more. Each new website has about 15-25 new pages being built.
Developers work with our in-house Senior Web Developer and our Project Managers who will be assigning project content. These pages will be built after the design has been completed and the initial Beaver Builder templates built out.
Drafting Monthly Growth Plan Pages: approx. 2-3 hours per week
Ramblin Jackson currently manages 100+ clients with roughly a third of them requiring new content built out every month (about 60 pages a month). Each page needs to be expertly built, with thoughtful placement of images and text, SEO in place, and properly tested.
Growth Plan Website Edits: approx. 2-3 hours per week
Website edits come in from our Growth Plan clients and can range from swapping out a few images, updating forms, adjusting new content or fixing issues. Common issues include broken images, responsive issues, formatting adjustments, etc…
The goal is to take care of our client’s requests quickly with most completed within 48 hours.
The Junior Web Developer is Responsible For The Following Key Accountabilities
- Assist in the Development and Building of Visually Engaging Websites using Ramblin Jackson proven processes, established templates, with best website development best practices for WordPress, Genesis and Beaver Builder.
- Drafting and Editing New Website Pages for Projects and Accounts with meticulous attention to detail for placing web copy, page elements, images, SEO and technical settings.
- Efficiently and Effectively Completing Website Edit Requests for Projects and Accounts, including problem solving website issues, content edits, and more technical support. With clear communication to the team and attention to deadlines.
Responsibilities
Web Developers are responsible for the development and on-going maintenance of our Client’s websites. This is a critical, foundational piece of their business and marketing efforts. This includes expert web development through established best practices, website security monitoring, on-going website maintenance and edits, and website support for their marketing strategy.
- Use your knowledge of HTML, CSS and eye for design to build pages, templated websites and other elements
- Work with the Senior Developer, Project Managers, Account Managers and other team members to complete projects on-time and at a high-quality
- Effectively manage tasks across multiple departments and projects
- Thoroughly test all work for quality control, functionality and responsive behavior
- Clearly and consistently communicate with the team in Asana on all tasks and assignments. Including keeping the team up to date on progress and letting them know of any issues that come up as soon as they arise
- Be able to safely and responsibly edit and work on live websites including taking back ups and working in staging environments
- Problem solve website issues, being resourceful in finding solutions and safely implementing fixes
Required Technical Skills
- Team collaboration
- Minimum three years WordPress and SEO experience
- Knowledge of WordPress coding standards and best practices
- Experience with working with WordPress in a local environment
- Minimum three years experience in HTML, CSS, and PHP
- Use, modify, and implement Beaver Builder and the Genesis Framework to create fully responsive and fast loading websites
- Solid understanding of UI/UX for lead generating, customer focused websites
- Some experience in Photoshop and Figma (bonus points for some design skills!)
- Some copywriting and SEO knowledge and experience
- Knowledge to fix (or diagnose) hacked WordPress sites
- Experience with optimizing image files and other types of files for the web
- Experience with Gravity Forms, conditional logic, and SMTP for WordPress
Other Required Skills
- Strong communication + reasoning skills
- Experience with Asana, Toggl, and Google Workspace products
- Team collaboration skills + able to give and receive constructive feedback
- High level of professionalism and attention to detail
- Effective time management skills + the ability to meet deadlines while working remotely
- Ability to multitask + prioritize work schedules
Ramblin Perks + Benefits
- 100% Virtual! - Work from home.
- Normal Business Hours - We work normal business hours -- 8am to 5pm MDT with a one hour lunch break. Flexibility for Ramblers in other time zones. The main point: we don’t expect you to work on weekends or overtime.
- Ramblin Jackson University - Learn new skills and onboard quickly with Ramblin Jackson’s online training program.
- Beef Jerky Club - Each week, Ramblers nominate and praise team members who are living the Core Values. Get nominated the most in a month and win a $200 prize. Get the most nominations in a quarter and you get to keep Barry the Bull trophy for the following quarter.
- Book Club - Learn new business skills as you read a premium business book that the team reads together.
- Ongoing Professional Development - Weekly/bi-weekly coaching meetings including employee work/life balance coaching
- Hardware - We’ll provide a current, up-to-date computer, if needed. Most of us use Macs, but some of our team prefers PCs.
- Sweet Software - Get your job down with ease using great software! Whoaaa nelly!
Other Requirements
While this is a work-from-home position, and is not client facing. We expect you to be on camera for team meetings and to present yourself appropriately.
- A Meeting Room - Must have a presentable home office that looks Professional in Video Conferences. A Meeting Room should be a neatly organized room without a lot of backlight, clutter, or things that would distract from the sale. Ramblin Jackson will provide a webcam, lighting, backdrops, and other audio/video equipment as needed.
- Professional Wardrobe and Appearance - The Junior Web Developer must present him/herself accordingly with appropriate business casual attire while attending video conferences or team meetings.
Are you our new Junior Web Developer? Fill Out The Form Below!
Please note at this time we are only able to consider candidates located and able to work in the United States. And while we use AI and appreciate the technology, we don't appreciate it in our applications. We want to hear from YOU! Not ChatGPT.
