Apply on our website: alley.co/careers.

User Experience (UX) Developers at Alley work at the intersection of web
development, design, and information architecture. Your responsibilities will
range from prototyping projects alongside designers to construction and
maintenance of high-traffic front-ends.

Our UX Developers need to be well-versed in the fast-changing landscape of
front-end technologies and practices, excited about keeping our team at the
cutting edge, and eager to work directly with clients to help them solve
interesting and novel business plans.

We’re not looking for rockstars, zombies, or magicians. We’re looking for
motivated, creative, and resourceful developers who want to partner with
impressive clients and who take pride in their work.

We recognize several levels of career progression for developers and tie
compensation to those levels corresponding to their seniority and experience.
We are looking for all levels of developers for this position.

Alley is an equal opportunity employer and we seek to increase diversity in
the tech industry. We encourage applications from women, Black people,
indigenous people, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, and
other communities traditionally underrepresented in this field.

If you have any questions about our hiring process, please contact us at
hiring@alley.co or check out our FAQ on our careers site.

Qualifications

* You share our passion for making the web indexable and accessible through a
deep and practical understanding of semantic HTML5.
* Translating designs into CSS is one of our core services to clients. It’s
important you have an understanding of modern concepts such as flexbox, CSS
Custom Properties, and CSS Grid. You also are familiar with CSS
preprocessors, their syntax, and their usage.
* You like to think critically and theoretically about human-computer
interactions. JavaScript is our language of choice for building these
interactions, so we’ll ask that you are fluent and can build front-end
components using native DOM APIs (such as element creation, querying, and
manipulation, events and event handling, and data fetching).
* You are comfortable with modern ES standards and understand transpilers and
module bundlers. Familiarity with Node.js and webpack are not requirements,
but are a big plus.
* Maintainable code makes a maintainable website, part of which is separating
presentation and business logic and creating clean, organized front-end
templates to do it. Understanding of React components, JSX, and PHP
Templating are a big plus.
* Alley takes site performance seriously—sites should be beautiful and
usable, but also fast. You’re familiar with front-end speed and performance
concerns and you know common strategies to alleviate them.
* Users access sites in unexpected ways, so you should be used to dealing
with compatibility issues and checking your work systematically on various
devices and browsers.
* You should feel comfortable at a Unix command line, even if you aren’t an
expert.
* You must know your way around git and understand version control well, and
be able to carry out typical operations with it, including branching,
merging, submitting code for peer review, and reviewing your peers’ code
yourself.
* We apply Scrum as a development methodology, and broadly endorse Agile as a
philosophy. You must be open to working this way as well, and prior
experience is a plus.
* You should also have very strong written and verbal communication skills,
and the ability to wield them with both team members and clients.
* Discipline concerning delivery dates, stylistic appreciation of what makes
code good and readable, and a committed attitude about documentation, user
stories, issue tracking, and timesheets are all very important skills for our
developers to have.
* Must be located within the US or Canada.

About Alley

We offer competitive salaries and company subsidized medical, dental and
vision benefits. We also offer a 401(k) with company matching, a profit
sharing plan, and a monthly lunch allowance.

We have no set hours and do not limit vacation or sick time. We trust our
team members to get their work done and take the time off they need to
recharge, and we suggest an average of three weeks off per year.

We are a fully distributed company, meaning we don’t have a set work
location. Team members can choose to work from home or from a co-working
space. We’ll furnish your home office or rent you a co-working space.

Recruiters: Please do NOT contact us about this job. All hiring duties at
Alley are carried out by our staff.